Former MP Accused Of Pressuring Tax Inspector To Reduce Fine On Oil Firm

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According to news reports, Greek prosecutors have begun investigating claims by a former tax inspector that he was pressured by a deputy finance minister several years ago to reduce a fine that had been issued against the subsidiary of a major oil firm.

According to the report, which was featured in Kathimerini, the company was fined about 25 million Euros and the retired tax official maintains that he was transferred from Thessaloniki’s main tax office when he failed to succumb to pressure to reduce the penalty.

No one can confirm if the story is true, but the only thing we can confirm is that financial prosecutor Grigoris Peponis passed the case to the first instance prosecutor in Thessaloniki.