Convicted former power company executive's medical certificate questioned

The medical certificate that allowed the former managing director of power supplier Energa, Aristides Floros, to be released from prison due to health reasons may lack the proper signatures and appears to be incomplete, based on report on a Greek news website on Friday.

Floros was the managing director of Energa, which, along with another power company, Hellas Power, withheld more than 100 million euros from the Greek state through a special property tax levied via electricity bills.

The companies collected the levies between September 2011 and November 2012 but subsequently failed to hand the money over to the state.

In February 2017, he was convicted of embezzlement, smuggling and money laundering and sentenced to 21 years in jail.

Floros was released from Halkida prison on health grounds. Reports say that the former businessman has been...