Greek opposition calls for explanations into Petsitis affair

Greece's conservative opposition Monday requested that the head of the country's anti-money laundering authority, Anna Zairi, appear before the Parliament's Institutions and Transparency Committee to respond to questions about the alleged scandal involving government aide Manolis Petsitis, as well as the reported dismissal of a senior official investigating the case.
On Sunday, New Democracy suggested that officials close to Maximos Mansion are implicated in a major financial scandal following newspaper reports that authorities investigating Petsitis's bank accounts in Greece and Cyprus had traced money whose origin could not be identified. According to those reports, the money came from Artemis Artemiou, a Cypriot lawyer specializing in offshore companies. Petsitis and Artemiou, both of whom are said to be close to Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, are alleged to have had...

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