Intervention of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority in the Ark of the World

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An investigation was ordered into the financial management of her resources – Accounts are being opened and the investigation is expanding – Juvenile prosecutors are running parallel investigations

By Ioanna Mandrou

The intervention of the Authority for the Money laundering they caused financial management information in its structure Ark of the Worldas the head of the Authority, Honorary Prosecutor of the country’s Supreme Court, Charalambos Vourliotis, intervened and ordered a full investigation.

The object of the investigations into the finances of the structure is the search for evidence of possible offenses related to money laundering and other financial offences.

The Authority, which will act with competent audit bodies by opening accounts, either of the structure or of natural persons, such as Father Antonios and the elder, but also others who participated in the administration of the structure, will soon draw up a relevant conclusion. If the findings are of criminal interest, the finding will be sent to the Prosecutor’s Office for further action.

At the same time, while investigations into the finances of the structure begin, the Juvenile prosecutors Aikaterini Kopelaki and Dafni – Kyriaki Tsichli, are running the procedures with witness examinations, which are judged to be able to provide important evidence for incidents of violent behavior against minors and others for sexual harassment.

Prosecutors are treating the investigations as confidential due to the nature of the case and its highly sensitive aspects, and for this reason they are not disclosing witness statements.

However, according to information, a person who has worked in the Ark structure in the past was examined, while other employee testimonials are expected to follow in the coming days, in order to confirm children’s complaints of abusive behavior against them, while the Prosecutor’s Office through its head Antonio Eleftherianou organizes the examination of children who live in the structures of the Ark with secrecy and observance of all the required rules. However, the focus of the broad prosecutorial investigation is primarily Father Antonios and three more workers at the Ark of the World, while the offenses under investigation, in at this stage of the investigation, it is abuse of a minor in carelessness (felony) and bodily harm to the vulnerable (misdemeanor).

The prosecutorial investigations, however, according to the estimates of the head of the Athens Prosecutor’s Office, due to the extreme seriousness of the case that has to do with the protection of minors, will be completed as soon as possible

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