Angelos Filippidis was let free, after posting 2 million euros bail. Before entering the Prosecutor's office Monday morning to testify and to hand his 300-page deposition, made a rather provocative statement: “I am here to testify the obvious. If I do well, fine, otherwise judges will be approving loans from now on” he stated.

Statements by former foreign minister Theodoros Pangalos concerning wiretapping US ambassadors in Athens and Ankara by Greek services have caused the intervention of the prosecutor, who ordered a preliminary inquiry into the case.

An alleged $95,000 payoff to a Thessaloniki tax official from a US tobacco products company is being looked into by the local prosecutor.