The assets of 17 individual taxpayers will be seized after an order issued by a relevant financial crimes prosecutor in the wake fo cross-checking conducted by the tax bureau on people with large deposits.

The checks concern a total of 49 people and are based on bank transactions performed between 2000-2012.

According to the a relevant tax bureau general secretary, Katerina Savvaidou, the results were conducted within the framework of an overall goal to combati tax evasion.