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 Post subject: Time for! The Big Fat Greek Gravy Train:
PostPosted: 15 Dec 2011 20:51 
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The Big Fat Greek Gravy Train: A special investigation into the EU-funded culture of greed, tax evasion and scandalous wasteBy Andrew Malone
Created 11:42 PM on 24th June 2011


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1gdeqrXTf


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 Post subject: Re: Time for! The Big Fat Greek Gravy Train:
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Macedonians are no angel's!
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/19728/45/

15 Policemen arrested for incurance fraud!
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/categ ... 3/45/20/0/

Police take 87 into custody for stealing Toll Fees!
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/19715/45/

Shame on them!


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 Post subject: Re: Time for! The Big Fat Greek Gravy Train:
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The Greek Tragedy.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/314221- ... os-beckons

One striking example was the discovery that a state-owned hospital in Athens had 45 gardeners on its payroll, but actually had no garden.


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One striking example was the discovery that a state-owned hospital in Athens had 45 gardeners on its payroll, but actually had no garden.

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The state-owned railway system has become like a black hole that attracts and destroys money at an astonishing rate. It was once calculated that if the government were to simply shut down the railway and instead pay the taxi fares of every single train commuter, it would actually save money.

Ridiculously, Greek pastry chefs, radio announcers, hairdressers and masseurs in steam baths are among more than 600 professions allowed to retire at 50 (with a state pension of 95 per cent of their last working year’s earnings) — on account of the ‘arduous and perilous’ nature of their work.

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Greece's 'bank of cronies'

Lending scheme; Biggest fraud case in country in 20 years

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/business ... z1jOjDYi00


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 Post subject: Re: Time for! The Big Fat Greek Gravy Train:
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http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article ... e-the-euro

Greece needs to detox

If Europe were a household, half its members would be drug addicts. But while Ireland and Portugal acted more like dope smokers, Greece resorted to crystal meth. It lied to gain admission. It perpetually borrowed from housemates but could never repay. It kept claiming it would clean up its act, but never did. And 2012 may be the year its fellow residents finally lose their patience and show Greece the door. :flowers


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http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/201 ... d-scandal/

Greek Orthodox abbot goes to jail before trial over land scandal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The abbot of one of Greece’s richest and most powerful monasteries went to jail on Wednesday awaiting trial for hoodwinking the government in a high-profile land swap deal six years ago. Cypriot-born Efraim, 56, chief of the Vatopedi Monastery at the monastic community of Mount Athos, is accused of inciting officials to commit acts of fraud, perjury and money-laundering, a charge that can fetch him a jail term of several years. :flowers


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 Post subject: Re: Time for! The Big Fat Greek Gravy Train:
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When are skatamanliss, and papaskatandreu together with their ministers are going to be arrested for GROSS EUROPEAN UNIONISTIC FINANCIAL, CULTURAL, FRAUDS? THE EU IS A DOG HOUSE OF CORRUPT EU DOGS AND INSTIUTIONS!

The Unionists were very very quick to arrest some bulgar and to trumpet fiscal diligence when the bulgars milked the EU cash.

The EU is a scam. Bye bye EU YOU ARE GOING DOWN!

TO THE REST OF THE WORLD GIVE THESE CORRUPT WARMONGERING COLONISTS NOTHING, NOTHING!!!!!!

the USA Australia and UK is the same shit, fuck your peanuts handouts and racist bullshit too.

THE RACISM HAS BEEN RIFE IN ALL THE ABOVE FOR TOO LONG! Not only against Macedonians, but against all non Anglofone or EU cultures. Macedonians defend yourselves and have a good day.


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 Post subject: Re: Time for! The Big Fat Greek Gravy Train:
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http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_ar ... 012_425450

Head of state company held for tax evasion

Police detain managing director of horse racing body over 83-mln-euro bill

Financial police officers on Wednesday arrested the managing director of the Organization for the Horse Racing Organization of Greece (ODIE), one of several state companies slated for privatization, for allegedly owing 83 million euros in unpaid taxes.

Police have arrested dozens of suspected large-scale tax evaders in recent months but this is the first time that the head of a state-backed entity has been arrested for debts to the state.

Last month, in a name-and-shame campaign aimed at getting tax evaders to pay up, the government published a list of more than 4,000 people, including several household names, who owe a total of 15 billion euros to the state.

ekathimerini.com , Wednesday February 1, 2012 (14:33)

PLATO - "The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying" ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Time for! The Big Fat Greek Gravy Train:
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Here is what I call a big family man....

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/ ... 3920111215


Thu, Dec 15 2011
ATHENS (Reuters) - A former Greek policeman who invented 19 fictional offspring to claim benefits for what would have been the largest family in Greece has been arrested for benefit fraud, police said.
The former police officer, divorced and with no children of his own, quit his 1,000-euro-a-month ($1,300) job in 2001 and has been living solely on benefits ever since, police said on Thursday.
Using photographs of children he found online, the 54-year-old man forged birth certificates and other documents needed to claim benefits for at least one child a year since 1996.
Police estimate he made at least 150,000 euros in claims over 15 years, but the actual amount is probably much higher.
The fraud was so expert, police said, that they only realized something was amiss when they noticed his was the only Greek family with that many children. The average Greek family usually has two or three children.
"We have never seen (a scam) like this before," said a police official who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
The former policeman, who under Greek law cannot be named, was arrested Wednesday as he was about to collect 8,000 euros in benefits from an Athens branch of Greece's employment agency OAED. He was taken to the prosecutor's office Thursday.
Widespread fraud, a generous welfare state and a notoriously inefficient public sector have been blamed as root causes of Greece's financial trouble that threatens to break apart the euro zone.
A team of tax investigators recently discovered that a seemingly humble Greek farmer on the island of Thasos, who owned a red Ferrari and a Porsche, was in fact into loan sharking. ($1 = 0.7721 euros)
(Reporting by Karolina Tagaris and Tatiana Fragou; Editing by Michael Roddy)


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