Report 3 ND MP’s Moved Millions

A report in the newspaper Ta Nea has alleged that three unidentified Members of Parliament each transferred more than a million euros of undeclared income to overseas bank accounts in the midst of the country’s crushing financial crisis as the government was urging Greeks to keep their money in the country. It was said that senior members of the party of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who has promised swift discipline for political wrongdoers, are urging for a full discovery so that there’s no taint on the government which has to fully investigate whether there are tax cheats on a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC. That is only one of a reported number of places in a variety of countries where Greeks are believed to have stashed their money to avoid paying taxes. The report said even if the MP’s had complied with tax laws and declared their income that it was unseemly, unpatriotic and hypocritical to keep money out of the country while insisting citizens keep theirs in Greece. It wasn’t indicated how they managed to accumulate so much money.  There was no initial response from New Democracy officials nor the Prime Minister, whose coalition government, that includes the PASOK Socialist, has only a three-vote majority in the 300-member Parliament. Another of his MP’s is under investigation in connection with a bad loan scheme but hasn’t been removed.

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