Alternate Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas, speaking with the private MEGA TV station on Wednesday, dismissed charges against him regarding a supposed 80,000-euro transfer of cash from Greece into a Luxembourg account. He said he has not exported any money out of the country since the snap elections resulted in a Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) victory on Jan. 25.

The minister said he has submitted a document with his assets that show the legality of his actions. Mardas admitted that he had transferred money – less than half the amount he is accused of dispatched – abroad in October and November to finance his daughter’s post-graduate studies in Belgium. The money had been deposited in a Greek bank abroad for the purposes of his daughter’s studies, he claimed.

Numerous reports swirling around the Greek-language Internet on Wednesday referred to his daughter as a permanent radio host in the northern city of Thessaloniki.

The story was first published by the same-name daily in his home city, “Thessaloniki”.