The 2-million-euro remittance to the Karamanlis Foundation goes to court

The case revealed by Proto Thema on Sunday of the suspicious remittance of 2 million euros to the Karamanlis Foundation, which reportedly comes from tax havens, is heading for the courts.

According to reports, the leadership of SDOE gave direct instructions to draw up a full dossier which it will send to the economic prosecutor within days, to decide whether to continue with the investigation.

Circles of the control mechanisms of the Finance ministry seemed impressed by the manipulation on the part of the unknown benefactor to retain his anonymity by all means, so that the Foundation could collect the huge amount of the benefaction.

We remind that in a case with many similarities to Mayo, Proto Thema revealed that the Foundation received a 2- million-euro donation some months ago from a company based in the tax haven of the Isle of Man in Great Britain, without unveiling who is behind the Loukopoulos Trust, which appears as the benefactor, and refusing to provide the required documentation to the Tax Authorities.

The revelations of our newspaper brought announcements by the Karamanlis Foundation and the emerging entrepreneur Athanasios Loukopoulos, who claims to have created a good will fund and that he proceeded to this donation having in mind the overall work done by the Karamanlis Foundation.

Obviously, these announcements are not convincing but instead are raising new questions, hence the intervention of the Financial Crime Unit.