Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-06-30

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The Public Administration General Inspector's annual report, the Siemens bribery scandal and the recent arrest of fugitive Siemens Hellas former CEO Michalis Christoforakos in Germany, illegal migration, political party affairs and reactions over the new tax measures expected in October were the main front-page headlines in Athens' newspapers on Tuesday.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Corruption stifling the State - Official report of the Public Administration Inspector".

APOGEVMATINI: "NO to politicians' holidays - The citizens of France, Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy and the US seek of their political leaders to cancel their vacations this year due to the global financial crisis".

AVGHI: "Corruption - Big-time doctors with off-shore companies for their 'gifts', scandal with the unlicensed buildings and real estate at the expense of the State".

AVRIANI: "Politicians received 250 million euros in kickbacks for the C4I, Hermes, Patriot, OTE, OSE and other major contracts of projects tendered to Siemens under gratuitous terms".

ELEFTHERI ORA: "According to the annual report of the Public Administration General Inspector, we have a...State of Corrupt Civil Servants".

ELEFTHEROS: "Papathanassiou (economy and finance minister) formally announced new tax-storm as of October".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "The bargaining with the bribes - Christoforakos' games in order to avert extradition to Greece".

ESTIA: "Total failure of taxation policy - What New Democracy (ruling party) was saying in 2004".

ETHNOS: "The 'extraordinary' taxes becoming...permanent - Papathanassiou announced new measures on the horizon in the autumn".

KATHIMERINI: "Corruption, mismanagement and bureaucracy - The observations in the Public Administration general inspector's annual report".

LOGOS: "Corruption rules - Shocking report on the public sector".

NIKI: "Nervous breakdown in ND - Mutual back-stabbing over the collapse of the economy".

TA NEA: "Write-off of Christoforakos with arrest warrants for crimes on which the statute of limitations expires in 2003".

TO VIMA: "Rakintzis (Public Administration General Inspector Leandros Rakintzis) reveals: Money laundering by doctors with offshore companies".

VRADYNI: "European Court landmark ruling - Five-year retroactive raises in public sector affecting 500,000 civil servants and pensioners".

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