A team of the Black Money Laundering Authority has been raiding the offices of the OPEKEPE since this morning and is sifting through files, documents and other evidence relating to about 10 specific individuals who will be audited as part of the multi-level investigation into illegal Community subsidies currently underway by the Authority.

Mr. Vourliotis’s instructions to Authority officials were clear: “You will not leave the OPEKEPE until you get all the data that exists on these auditees.”

This is the second part of the targeted controls carried out under the head of the Authority, former Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Charalambos Vourliotis and concerns persons who are active in the region of Thessaly and recent days their names had been in the spotlight as one of them had been a politician with New Democracy.

The name of the candidate who has been associated with the political party of the Republic of Cyprus.

The Authority’s team, following a written order from Mr. Vourliotis, is still collecting all the data, documents – electronic and otherwise – from OPEKEPE to proceed with an independent audit to determine whether the subsidies received by these persons were legal or whether they conceal other offences such as money laundering.

If there are indications of money laundering through financial institutions, purchase of luxury cars and in combination with lifestyles that are not in line with the incomes declared, then the Authority – as it did a few days ago – will proceed to freeze all assets (Bank accounts, bank vaults, real estate, etc.) of the suspects and will also forward any findings to the European prosecutors for further criminal assessment.