The Ministers of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos and Health Adonis Georgiadis will meet with the Deputy Minister of Finances Christos Staikouras today to discuss drawing funds from the bribes that have been returned to the Greek state in recent trials.
The Education and Health Ministries are specifically set to collect an estimated 17.3 million euros that derive from crimes against the interests of the Greek state and were returned by the defendants in the ongoing investigation and trials of the armament scandal. The funds returned have been deposited in a special account in the Bank of Greece.
So far the former deputy director of armaments and the Ministry of National Defense Antonis Kantas has returned 9.8 million euros, Giorgos Kamaris, who is involved in the TOR M1 deal has retuned 7.3 million euros, while a third defendant in the bribery scandal has returned an estimated 219,000 euros.
