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14. Greece is trying to recover $2.8 billion through a ruthless crackdown on tax evasion

Reply to Tansy_Gold (Original post)

Wed Feb 11, 2015, 07:54 AM

Feb 2015

http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-greeces-new-anti-corruption-minister-battles-tax-evasion-scourge-2015-2

Greece's new anti-corruption tsar Panagiotis Nikoloudis has been tasked with recovering 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion) for the debt-strapped government's coffers through a ruthless crackdown on tax evasion.

The former Supreme Court deputy prosecutor and Greece's first anti-corruption minister told AFP he was itching to tackle the scourge blamed for the country's financial woes and its lack of credibility among its EU peers.

"I've heard so many times, 'We're going to fight corruption,' always, 'We're going to, we're going to,' and I was speechless, thinking, 'But why don't we do it now?'" the 65-year-old said in an interview.

"If the new government has come to see me, it's because it really wants to act," said the bushy-eyebrowed minister, who describes himself as a stubborn man who "never stops, even when I hit a wall."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-greeces-new-anti-corruption-minister-battles-tax-evasion-scourge-2015-2#ixzz3RR8JB2DR

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