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Giant Kickback Account Found

The authority against money laundering has found 13.7 million dollars in an account with a bank in Singapore linked to the weapon system kickback scandals. The former deputy director for armaments Antonis Kandas was arrested in relation to the money and faced prosecutors who want to know whose money it is.

Mr Kandas' post in the defense ministry was just under Yannia Sbokos who was recently sentenced in a trial for money laundering of illicit gains along with then minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos, while also under indictment on other charges.

In September, Mr Kandas had been arrested on a warrant issued by corruption inquisitor Spyros Georgouleas after half a million euros was found in a bank account of his, on charges related to the acquisition by the Hellenic army of an extension to encrypted communications system “Hermes 2”.

he was released on conditions and testified on charges of direct complicity in the dereliction of duty by minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos pertaining to the “Hermes 2” program that was signed in September 1999, when the latter was minister.

The penal repercussions will be dealt with by inquisitors Gavriil Mallis and Yannis Stavropoulos, while authorities want the money back as well as leads to who else was involved in this huge kickback.