Corfu: Shocking Photos Unveil Secret Crypt Used by Corrupt Tax Official to Hide Extorted Money

Photographs documenting the cache in which one of the supervisors involved in the taxman ring that extorted businessmen in Corfu hid money were obtained and presented by protothema.gr.

Η… “hiding place” was revealed by members of the Internal Affairs Service of the Hellenic Police, who conducted an investigation at the house of the supervisor involved and located the specially designed space in the door frame. A total of 7,450 euros were found inside the frame, money which is estimated to have come from the illegal activities of the ring.

See the cache where the money was hidden:

The deputy director of the IRS, two supervisors, a clerk, and an accountant have already been arrested in the case. The organization was dismantled by the “Unbroken”, and the dialogues between its members played a catalytic role.

“I want to line my own pockets”

One of the conversations that are of interest is one in which the Deputy Director of the IRS can be heard saying that what he wants is to “line his own pocket”.

Subdirector: And we’ve told them 40 like this;

Supervisor: 30 we had said. It had not been set yet.

Supervisor: He had said 30 he then we had said to bring it up a little higher.

(…)

Sub-manager: I want to fill my pocket, I’ve said so. I’ve told her, I’ve told N. I’ve told her N. I want the shop to do well, I want the other one to be a manager for life in my @@ I tell her. You know what I’m interested in? The bottom line. I don’t care, I say do what you want to me, I tell her. I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be happy. She tells me. Well. Screw them, let her play headmistress, I don’t care. Once she lets us do our job.

“Scout the place before the appointment”

In another conversation, the assistant director of the IRS is heard conversing with one of the supervisors involved about an appointment he has made with a taxpayer a venue apparently for the purpose of receiving money. In the conversation, the assistant manager tells the supervisor to be extra careful and to look around the premises first.

Supervisor: She told me that you know what, I have to see it, she told me that is I have to see it, and I said I won’t and she said, “Oh she tells me what it will, and what I’m going to do” nothing, then I didn’t call, I didn’t call, what am I going to do now. Well, I don’t know but I think that is.

Supervisor: You should make an appointment for her… you’ll make an appointment… at… at a cafe. There you are twenty minutes, half an hour before, scouting the place, looking to see if she’ll alone.

Supervisor: So how would I know them?

Assistant Principal:
Pay attention to me, you see the space first, you look. Well, then when it’s time for the appointment, you give her a call, you say “I say you’ve arrived because something happened I’m going to be late”, she might say “I’m over there”, “I say because I’m in a hurry” tell her “I’ll pick you up, in my car”, you don’t go into the cafeteria.

Supervisor: I don’t understand I don’t understand now (unintelligible) I don’t understand, since she almost told me yesterday.

Supervisor. Well, nothing.

Supervisor: Let’s save it all, listen to me girl, it’s over.

“Leave the file on the desk without touching it”

Later in the conversation, the assistant director of the IRS explains to the supervisor that he should leave the envelope with the money on his desk for two days without touching it as a security measure.

Supervisor: Well he’s going to tell her a little bit the other, tell her to come here, in a binder, binders like this, the classic tell her, bring the balances, your documents tell her to bring them from the office, put them in the envelope tell her, close the case. Tell her this, you have when she comes over there, say go next door and get a cup of coffee, tell her, you’re going to leave it here, write out “balance sheet”, “balance sheet documents” from I don’t know where else, and you bring it in here, she puts her money in the envelope she brings it over there, you leave it on your desk, you don’t touch it at all. You leave it upstairs for two days. Until the last the envelope stays on your desk there you don’t touch it at all, if there’s one in a million that’s not there they’ll show up, when the envelope’s not in the drawer, it’s not it’s over there, where did the money come from? How should I know, “balances” was written on it, no, every I’m charged eight hundred things I don’t know anything. In the envelope, we’ll buy it and he’ll give it to us write on the outside “documents – balance sheets – receipts” and so on go for a walk, put in whatever papers you’ve got and tell us to bring them back. He will bring them, as again hand them over okay never mind leave it there in the office say this back and leave it there two days. If there’s a one-in-a-million chance of someone coming in, they’ll show up at that time. Who?

Supervisor: Hey, there’s no way.

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