[MGSA-L] Millions for billions (German bribes to Greece)

Roland Moore rolandmo at pacbell.net
Tue Jan 7 14:03:56 PST 2014


From: Apostolis apostpap at gmail.com
 

http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58707


German-Foreign-Policy    
Newsletter 2014/01/06 - Millions for Billions ATHENS/BERLIN (Own report) - New allegations of corruption have been leveled at leading German arms manufacturers. According to a formeremployee of the Greek defense ministry and several mediators of the arms industry, German arms manufacturers paid millions in bribes toinduce Athens to purchase German weaponry, worth several billion Euros. Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall were among the companies named. These deals helped inflate the country's debts and were, therefore, in part responsible for escalating the crisis. Others, suchas Siemens, had also paid millions in bribes to land lucrative contracts from Athens. According to a Greek journalist, who has doneextensive research on corruption in Greece, German companies are the "main beneficiaries" of Greece joining the Euro zone because theysubsequently profited from highly lucrative Greek government contracts. The sumptuous contracts helped plunge Greece
 into crisiswhile they, at the same time, helped the German industry to blaze its trail to the predominant position in Europe.
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