24th November 2014 23:20 clock

Siemens Greece kickbacks

against former Siemens employees an Athenian court brought a charge of bribery. | © REUTERS / Luke Barth

The Athens prosecutor has filed charges against former employees of Siemens employees and the Greek Telecom (OTE). A total of 64 people have to answer charges of bribery and money laundering, including 17 German. This was reported by the Greek State Radio (New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television), citing Prosecutor Galinos Bris.

The name of the accused were not known. The Greek Justice will decide in the next few weeks, when it came to the process.

Siemens employees should have decision-makers in Greece bribed the end of the nineties, to take over the digitization of the Greek telephone network can. Let bribes were paid in the amount of nearly 70 million euros, reported the state radio.

The indictment refers only to individuals who are involved in this affair and not Siemens AG as a company, said employees from among the prosecutor.

The Siemens AG had agreed out of court in the bribery scandal in 2012 with the Greek state. In the comparison Siemens had renounced and promised to secure jobs in Greece after the then information from the Greek Ministry of Finance, inter alia, the settlement of Greek debt.