Corruption in public administration is deepening

The supervisor has found 185 cases in which the administrative penalties for violations at the first instance were inadequately mild to the offences committed. There are still cases of malpractice, which are even increasing in number, despite the ongoing reforms in public administration. One of the most striking cases is in Trikala Municipality, where, for a period of 11 years, payment orders have been issued for the acquittal of fictitious loans to the municipalities of Farkadona and Pialion. The total amount defalcated by the ally is 175,000 euro. The same officer had already been found guilty of misuse of state property in the past, worth 22,000 drachmas, but his punishment then was only six months suspension from office, after which he was appointed to the municipal office....
The list of violations by civil servants is long and varied. A head of the Regional Development Department in the Peloponnese has approved funding worth 230,000 euro for a project of a private company, although it has neither participated in a competition to win the grant, nor has the project been estimated. The same official has approved state co-financing of another company worth 467,000 euro (50% of the project's value) without requiring the full documentation for the funding approval.....
At the moment, the personal assets and accounts of 60 employees of the Ministry of Economy and Development are being investigated, who were embroiled in a corruption scandal in the key institution. They have approved of the allocation of EU funds, but the co-financing of public-private projects has depended on whether the contractors were willing to give a percentage of the sum to the officials from the ministry.
Meanwhile, the economic police in Greece has released a study according to which 6 in 10 taxpayers commit some kind of tax fraud. Only in the period between 6 and 23 June, special tax authorities across the country made 1410 inspections and found over 22,000 violations in 805 commercial sites in tourist areas.

Corruption in public administration is deepening