The predators in many countries are scattered throughout society!
From a friend in northern Italy:
Now explain me how the heck a night club singer could earn 5m Euros,
just the unpaid to taxes plus the whole of the rest...We would become
all night club singers if true.... Reality which is so simple is ....
Bribes, Corruption mafias and the stupidity of greedy non democratic
powers,,, just gangs and mafias and churches as in the medieval times
igor
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d70da6a0-624a-11df-991f-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss
Greek minister sacked over husband’s taxes
By Kerin Hope in Athens
Published: May 18 2010 08:22 | Last updated: May 18 2010 12:09
Greece’s tourism minister was sacked on Monday after an Athens newspaper
revealed her husband, a nightclub singer, owed more than €5m (£4.3m,
$6.2m) in unpaid income tax.
Angela Gerekou, a former actress, is the first high-profile casualty of
a crackdown on tax evasion
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0402c92e-4991-11df-9060-00144feab49a.html> by
the socialist government last month.
“She resigned in order not to cause any problems for the government,” an
official statement said. The couple filed joint income tax declarations.
Ms Gerekou had been preparing to launch an international campaign under
the slogan “You and Greece” to revive the country’s flagging tourist
sector.
Greek hotel bookings have fallen sharply following global television
coverage of anti-austerity demonstrations in Athens.
Tolis Voskopoulos, her husband, owed €5.5m in unpaid taxes, fines and
penalties, according to documents published on Monday by the leftwing
newspaper Eleftherotypia.
The finance ministry confirmed the newspaper report, adding that court
hearings of a case brought against Mr Voskopoulos by the tax authorities
had twice been postponed.
“Immediate instructions have been given for the due amounts to be
collected through an auction of assets,” a ministry statement said.
The finance ministry last week released the names of more than 50
doctors and dentists in Athens who face fines and, in some cases,
criminal charges
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9ca8cc16-5f7e-11df-a670-00144feab49a.html>,
for under-reporting their incomes.
Ms Gerekou, the deputy minister for culture and tourism, is the second
undersecretary to be sacked since the socialists came to power last
October.
Dimitris Rovlias, deputy minister for the interior, resigned within
weeks after being accused of arranging transfers for police officers as
a political favour.
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