Greece
Greece
Appeals Justices Again Acquit Former ELSTAT Chief Andreas Georgiou, Two Others
An Appeals Justices' Council on Friday again acquitted the former head of Greece's statistical authority Andreas Georgiou, as well as two other ELSTAT employees, of charges that he had artificially inflated Greece's 2009 public deficit figures. This was the...
Economy
Greek Prosecutor Says Former Statistics Chief Should Not Face Trial
Greek Prosecutor Ioannis Koutras said on Friday that there was no evidence to implicate Andreas Georgiou, the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist that later headed the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). Finding no proof that the official had tampered...