[MGSA-L] Bags found with 14,000,000 Reichmarks

June Samaras june.samaras at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 20:11:56 PDT 2012


Bags found with 14,000,000 Reichmarks

The Finance Ministry is setting up a committee to decide what the
state should do with the 57 bags of German currency from the time of
the 1941-44 occupation during World War II that it has in the
Treasury.

In the context of seeking any relevant documents regarding the
requirement of war damages from Germany, the ministry has decided to
create a six-member committee to propose what should happen with the
14,334,000 Deutsche marks left over from the occupation and now held
by the Bank of Greece.

The committee’s task concerns “the inspection of the 57 bags and the
submission of a proposal as to whether there remain any reasons for
their further retention, their possible use for other purposes or
their destruction, given that their value today can only be historic,”
the decision by Finance Minister Filippos Sachinidis reads.

Sources say that the Bank of Greece had informed the ministry of the
German money about a year ago, but given that it is only of historic
value, the ministry had then decided against taking any action.
However, as a result of the war reparations debate that is currently
raging, Sachinidis has now decided to see what can be done with it.
	
	
ekathimerini.com , Monday April 9, 2012 (23:19)

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