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Griveas-Vatsika Released On Bail for Hellenic Postbank Unsecured Loan Case

Kyriakos Griveas and his wife Anastasia Vatsika were released on conditions on Monday after testifying to the examining prosecutor for Corruption Giorgos Andreadis in relation to the Hellenic Postbank unsecured loans case. Following a unanimous decision by the examining investigator and...

TT Bank's Filippidis Freed On Bail

Former Hellenic Postbank chairman Angelos Filippidis, charged in connection with an alleged bad loan scheme at the failed state-owned institution, was released on two million euros bail on Feb. 10 after telling an interrogator at an Athens court he...

Filippidis Βefore the Ιnvestigating Μagistrate

Greek Former Hellenic Postbank (TT) chairman and CEO Angelos Filippidis is currently testifying before the investigating magistrate on corruption issues. Filippidis will try to rebut the charges against him and persuade the magistrate not to order his detention on remand...

It's Easy To Find The Greeks Who Can't Steal Straight

There’s so many scandals in Greece that you need a scorecard to keep them straight and they all involve politicians, businessmen and connected people who thought, often with much justification that either they were too smart to get caught,...

Filippidis Returns To Greece, Arrested On The Spot

The former chairman of the failed state-owned Hellenic Postbank, Angelos Filippidis returned to Greece on Feb. 5 even as authorities were urging his re-arrest and extradition from Turkey where he had been initially taken into custody before being released...

Filippidis: 'They are After Me Because I am Friend of Karamanlis'

Angelos Filippidis, the former head of Hellenic Postbank who was arrested in Istanbul after Greek authorities said he was wanted in connection with a bad loan scheme at the failed state bank he ran, made a statement in front of...

Turkish Court Releases Filippidis

Angelos Filippidis, the former head of Hellenic Postbank who was arrested in Istanbul after Greek authorities said he was wanted in connection with a bad loan scheme at the failed state bank he ran, was released by a Turkish...

Greece Presses Postbank Prosecution

The Greek government said it continues to crack down on corruption by arresting financial officers, businessmen and their associates in the latest scandal involving a Greek bank that provided hundreds of millions of euros in unsecured loans. The government arrested...

Filippidi's Extradition Expected Next Week

All relevant documentation on Angelos Filippidis has been handed over to the Turkish prosecutor in Istanbul, thus giving the green light for the extradition of the Greek businessman who is wanted for his involvement in the Hellenic Postbank loan...

Hellenic Postbank Fugitives Caught in London

British authorities said that Kyriakos Griveas and his wife Anastasia Vatsika, who were subjects of a worldwide hunt and being sought with the help of Interpol as Greek officials said they had absconded with as much as 17 million...