The NGO’s financial data was the subject of an investigation for about a day. “The Ark of Peace”. The process began amid a storm of revelations about maltreatment of minors in the structures of the organization and aims to verify complaints also regarding the management of many millions of euros, which came to the treasury of the organization mainly in the form of donations.

Her research Economic Police it will be extended for five years, during which time NGO managers are estimated to have collected at least 30 million from private donations and a much smaller amount from public funds, which does not exceed 200,000 euros. The purpose of two parallel investigations is to establish whether this money was spent on the operation of Kivotos and in favor of minor children which were placed and continue to be placed in its structures, or if they ended up on the individual accounts of the responsible leaders of the non-governmental organization.

On Tuesday, a division of the economic police conducted an inspection in the building that serves “Kivotos” in Kolonos and where the organization’s accounting department is located. Tax and banking information was confiscated, and the island’s sub-directorate of security also conducted a surprise raid on the Chios structure at noon yesterday. Her business GREEK POLICE. was done in agreement with the Financial Police Department after receiving information that administration officials were trying to hide documents related to financial management.

The investigation was concluded in the afternoon, and initial reports indicated that the initial report of an attempt to destroy evidence had not been substantiated. However, the seized documents will be sent to Athens to participate in the ongoing investigation.

It is estimated that donations to NGOs over the past 5 years amounted to about 30 million euros, while public funding did not exceed 200,000 euros.

Police sources say that in the near future, correspondence will be held between the economic police and private banks in order to clarify in which banking institutions the NPO as a legal entity and members of the former – now – board of directors kept accounts.

The flow of money into and out of these accounts will then be checked to draw conclusions about the management of the millions of euros that the NGO appears to receive each year. At the same time, an investigation will be carried out regarding tax data and, in particular, property belonging to Kivotos, as well as members of the previous board of directors. And this is because there is information and complaints that many of the objects donated to the organization to ensure its operation were transferred to the name of its previous leaders.

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The organization’s finances will also be audited by the Money Laundering Authority. Especially after the Bank of Greece informed her that she was a member of the previous board of directors. “Kivotos”, which was liquidated after the revelations, visited a bank branch last week, where he allegedly keeps a safe deposit box. He is believed to have taken the money from the safe in anticipation of the bank accounts being “frozen” in the event of a legal investigation, as was eventually the case. In this particular bank, the same person allegedly has an account with deposits reaching up to 2 million euros.