An organized network of companies in the US, Turkey and Bulgaria was revealed Anti Money Laundering Office in the context of his study of the professional activities of a television producer and presenter Nikos Kokloniswhich is already under investigation. According to reportsin a multi-page – about 80 pages in total – opinion of the head of the Independent Body, Honorary Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Charalambos Vourliotis, which has already been sent to the Financial Prosecutor’s Office for further action, at least 15 companies are listed abroad, companies without obvious corporate interests of the TV producer, companies named in money laundering investigations by shell companies.

According to the conclusions of the Vourliotis report, as a result of which he was sent to the financial prosecutor’s office. for tax evasion at the expense of the state, fraud at the expense of the state, money laundering and a criminal organization, the network of television production companies outside of Greece was estimated to be very well organized. From these companies, which did not show specific activities, it was found that the receipt of funds to a company supported by a television producer in our country (with many programs on television stations).

As it turned out as a result of the investigation, in addition to the labyrinthine system of corporate forms, carefully built over the past five years in order to pass money of dubious origin for the activities of the TV producer here, his debts to the state of 12 million euros (and not 22, as it was initially known) are mainly from non-payment of taxes and other contributions.

Money Laundering Office, According to reportsafter receiving information from various sources about the existence of companies abroad, but mainly in Turkey and Bulgaria, engaged in an in-depth investigation into the activities of Nikos Koklonis, at the same time, some cash movements in credit institutions were found to be subject to verification – initially not suspected – and were investigated by the Office .

The Money Laundering Authority has identified at least 15 companies of interest to the television producer in the US, Bulgaria and Turkey.

In every case, for the same information, the investigation of the Office went in all directions, since for this purpose information was used about a close associate of a television producer of Albanian origin, who actively participated in the professional activities of N. Koklonis and really under a fictitious name and a female name. . A total of seven associates of the television producer – a lawyer, accountants and his partner of Albanian origin – were ordered to freeze assets in all credit institutions and competent real estate authorities.

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Interestingly, the decisions – orders to freeze his assets – movable and immovable property, corporate and personal accounts – do not include his obligations to employees. These commitments of his are expressly excluded in the commitment orders signed by Mr. Vourliotis so as not to jeopardize the livelihoods of the television producer’s approximately 600 employees.

At the same time, the FDA’s investigation found no previous debts to the government, when it had Air Fast Tickets, which suffered a financial failure, but its debts to collaborating companies in the private sector related to these business activities reached 100 million . euro.

PH and the European Prosecutor’s Office

One of the associates of businessman Nikos Koklonis is accused of drug trafficking. His name is associated with the regulation that the Office of Leaching orders the freezing of the assets of the manufacturer and his accomplices. By order of the Authority, this is 36-year-old R.Kh., an Albanian citizen who was arrested in 2021 for cannabis trafficking. He was discovered by police officers of the Attic Anti-Narcotics Sub-Directory in Galatsi with one kilogram of raw and three kilograms of processed cannabis on him and in the safe house. A Greek citizen was also arrested in the same case. The 36-year-old man is currently in Korydallos prison. According to K, Koklony’s case will also be investigated by the European Prosecutor’s Office regarding the financing of his company by European funds.