Former Greek Statistics Chief Acquitted 15 Years After Debt Crisis Disclosures
Andreas Georgiou was cleared by Greece's supreme court after being accused of inflating deficit figures to justify austerity, according to Le Monde.
Former Greek statistics chief Andreas Georgiou was acquitted by the country's supreme court, 15 years after he was accused of deliberately inflating Greece's deficit figures to justify austerity measures, Le Monde reported.
Georgiou had revealed the true state of Greece's public finances during the 2010 debt crisis, according to the report.
Sources
- En Grèce, l’ancien chef des statistiques, qui avait dévoilé la vérité sur l’état des finances publiques pendant la crise de 2010, est enfin blanchi — Le Monde — Une
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