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More exactly, a report on olympia and newsbomb said that Papantoniou boarded a flight with Lufthansa and then flew to Munich (or London), and then on to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil just hours before he was set to be summoned by judicial authorities to answer to the US $3.2 million in unaccounted funds that were found in his and his wife's pothen esches report (or the where did you get these funds report), as well as for the handling (and transactions) of well over US $40 million in accounts that the couple held at the HSBC Bank in Geneva.
The former PASOK minister, who is just another GREEN SOCIALIST implicated in yet another crime against the state, apparently flew to Rio de Janeiro on a private jet that is owned by a powerful Greek businessman (and friend).
When the news broke on Monday night, sources close to Papantoniou (obviously of the Simitis and PASOK sort) attempted to downplay this claiming that he made this journey for health reasons. According to them Papantoniou has a severe liver disease and (out of the blue) he decided to fly to Brazil to attend to his health (or basically escape the grips of justice to a country where the law would not be able to easily find him just days before being summoned by Greek authorities to answer to the black funds that were found in his accounts).
Anyone with half a brain would then wonder, how is it possible that someone with such a severe liver disease can fly so many hours and only trust the services of a friend in the Brazilian medical field? Doesn't it sound too surreal? (Of course it does.) Nonetheless we will give them the benefit of the doubt, but we ask, why not rush him off to a Greek hospital, or a specialist in Europe, or even the US?
Why Brazil?
There are too many voices that are convinced that his sudden -and mysterious- departure to Brazil is only because of what competent authorities discovered in his bank accounts last week. Besides the timing is just too incredible. More exactly, last week officials from the Financial Crime squad (SDOE) discovered that the deposits made in Papantoniou's account HSBC in Geneva were not made by remittances from Greek banks, but that these funds were transferred by foreign banks! On top of that, SDOE officials also discovered another account in the bank of Singapore.
His escape days before being summoned only gives "conspiracy" theorists more reason to believe that he did so because he did not want to face questioning. Reports claim that his powerful friends in the corporate world and especially in Brussels banned together once again to help one of their own (just like they have for most of PASOK. Example George Papandreou).
We are convinced that this could be another repeat of the "Christoforakos Escape". In May 2009, Michalis Christoforakos who was the former head of Siemens in Greece, was scheduled to appear before an investigating magistrate that was investigating the Siemens scandal. Just before his escape, Christoforakos had refused to appear at several previous summons and when he was summoned for the last time and refused to once again make an appearance authorities went to look for him and discovered that he had fled Greece and flown off to Germany. The Greek government immediately issued an international arrest warrant but because he also held a German passport he could not be extradited back to Greece to face charges (or arranging vast Siemens bribes to go to Greek parliamentary MPs).
It should be noted that Christoforakis was able to do this because Dora Bakoyianni -an enemy of Costas Karamanlis and a friend to Germany and the Bush Family- was heading the Foreign Ministry. So would it then be safe to assume that because Evangelos the Large is a friend to Germany and heading the foreign ministry that Papantoniou was also able to make a similar escape? Will he suddenly present a passport to Brazil, or Germany too?
No one knows, we will just have to wait and see.
Stay tuned frappers.
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