Papantoniou - Doukas referred due to their property statements

The relevant parliamentary committee is sending Yiannos Papantoniou and Petros Doukas to the courts for the offense of dishonest property statement, as its members were not convinced by the explanations of the impugned politicians.

Papantoniou’s referral was unanimous, while in Doukas’ case 7 members voted in favor and 4 against.

Papantoniou “got caught” with an undeclared bank account in HSBC containing 2.2 million dollars (1.3 million initially and then the rest). The account is in the name of his wife and was revealed with the publication of the infamous Lagarde list. Initially, the former minister claimed that there is no account and spoke of slander against him.

Along the way, he reversed his position and in a statement to the parliamentary committee, admitted that the account exists, but he was unaware of its existence and was not informed by his wife.

He claimed that it was a personal account of his wife's as it contained funds deposited by her former husband for their children. Finally, he changed his statement for the third time, as Papantoniou confessed that he knows about the account and that it contains money both from him and his wife. Economic prosecutors have already ordered an investigation into the whole of the movable and immovable property of the Papantoniou couple, as well as the opening of all their accounts.

Doukas was investigated because in his statements between 2009 and 2010 he "forgot" to declare 1 million euros. He hastened to submit to the committee all relevant documents to show that the money is there and that it was not declared “by mistake”

. However, some members of the committee said that “although he justified the missing money, we are obliged to refer him as he had not declared it.”