An economic prosecutor on Thursday brought felony charges against the former Bank of Greece (BoG) governor George Provopoulos, the former Piraeus Bank chairman Michalis Sallas and a number of executives from both banks on Thursday, for actions in 2009 that harmed the reserves of pension funds.

From governor of the Bank of Greece... to farmer on his native island of Kythira.

“The summer of 2012 was a particularly difficult period”, Giorgos Provopoulos said and added that he is ready to take a long vacation now after all that anxiety.