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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-10-20
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[01] Head of Alpha TV Dimitris Kontominas charged with tax evasion,
money-laundering
[01] Head of Alpha TV Dimitris Kontominas charged with tax evasion,
money-laundering
The head of Alpha TV Dimitris Kontominas, a businessman that has also
been involved in insurance, retail trade and cinema, was on Thursday
charged with criminal counts of tax evasion and legalising income from
illegal activity following an investigation carried out by financial
prosecutors.
The charge concerns a sum of roughly 48 million euros that arose as a
discrepancy between Kontominas' declared income and the bank deposits
in his name during the period 2006-2008.
The case against Kontominas was the result of a roughly year-long
investigation by financial prosecutors working with unified lists of
tax-evaders, who had summoned him to explain the discrepancies in his
financial affairs for the period in question. Kontominas denied committing
any illegal act and had resorted to the General Secretariat for Public
Revenues office for settling disputes to challenge the accusations issued
against him by tax authorities. After a second review of the figures,
however, his case against them was dismissed.
A year ago financial prosecutors had issued an order freezing Kontominas'
assets up to the sum of 100 million euros. The case file has now
been forwarded from the first-instance court prosecutors to a special
magistrate, who will summon the businessman to answer to the charges
made against him.
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