Police raid premises linked with GSEE probe

Police launched a bid of raids Friday astatine premises linked with radical suspected of engagement successful an alleged fraud ungraded involving Greece’s biggest umbrella labour union.

The cognition successful Athens and Thessaloniki followed instructions from the fiscal prosecutor’s office.

The ungraded broke successful February aft the autarkic authorization connected wealth laundering forwarded a study to the fiscal prosecutor’s bureau connected alleged fraud successful vocational training programs.

Among the radical under probe are Yiannis Panagopoulos, long-time caput of the General Confederation of Greek Labor, known by its Greek initials, GSEE, that represents backstage assemblage workers. Panagopoulos has denied wrongdoing, arsenic person the different radical under investigation.

The wealth laundering authority’s study names six individuals and six companies which GSEE selected to grip subsidized training programs.