Greece was allegedly planning lawsuits against German companies – SPIEGEL ONLINE

What to do when Grexit? Among the considerations for a possible Greek exit from the euro still further details are known. On Friday confirmed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, he had ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis instructed to draw up a “defense plan” in the event that Greece should leave the monetary union.

This plan involved, according to a report in the newspaper “Efimerída ton Syntaktón” also corruption investigations against German companies. Such methods would be against operating in Greece German companies like Siemens , Lidl, Allianz , MAN and Hochtief has been initiated.

A bribery scandal at Siemens makes in Greece for a long time for

discussion. In this case, however, is already running a procedure. Siemens employees have paid in 1997 approximately EUR 70 million bribes to the Greek telecommunications company OTE to take over the digitization of the telephone network to the Greek. Therefore, about a dozen former Siemens representatives and some 40 other defendants are on trial in March.

Another point in Athens contingency plan were according to the newspaper nationalizations. Thus the acquisition of privatized only in 2013 gambling company Opap was provided, the leftist Journal reported, citing government sources. Been planned are new road tolls on the motorways and the country’s largest bridge. The government in Athens would not comment on the report first.