Ο περίγελος της Ευρώπης. Πρώτα παρανόμησαν και τώρα ψεύδονται…

…και έχουν το θράσος να μιλούν για εξεταστικές, ενώ ακόμα και τώρα αποκρύπτουν στοιχεία από την ΕΕ για τα πεπραγμένα τους το 2000 – 2001!
Ύπνο βαθύ και η κυβέρνηση Καραμανλή που θα μπορούσε να ασκήσει διώξεις σε Σημίτη, Παπαντωνίου, Χριστοδουλάκη διότι τα κρυφά Swaps είναι παράνομα. Όπως και κάθε εμπλοκή με παράγωγα εκτός των επίσημων αγορών. Τόσο απλά.

By Jones Hayden and Gavin Finch
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — Greece failed to notify the European Union about a 2001 swap contract that helped mask the size of its debt and told the EU in 2008 that the government was prohibited from using off-balance-sheet derivatives, the EU’s statistics office said.
“For the first time, the Greek authorities have declared the existence of an off-market swap operation in 2001,” the Luxembourg-based statistics office, Eurostat, said in an e- mailed statement today. “Concerning the specific off-market swap operation, Greek authorities had not informed Eurostat about this kind of government transaction.”
“On the contrary, during a Eurostat visit to Greece on 15- 19 September, 2008,” Eurostat said, “the Greek authorities declared that, in Greece, government units are not allowed by law to engage in off-market financial derivatives.” That was after Eurostat in March of that year had issued new regulations on the recording of derivatives.
The EU accounting watchdog last week ordered Greece to provide information on its swaps as it investigates whether the country used derivatives to hide the extent of its budget deficit, and if other countries used them. Eurostat said the Greek authorities delivered a package of information yesterday evening on off-market swaps for 2001-2009 that it called “incomplete.”
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. helped the Greek government hedge bonds sold in euros and yen in 2000, the firm said in a statement on its Web site on Feb. 22. The nation sought to cut its borrowings in foreign currencies after deciding to join the euro because a rising dollar or yen would inflate its debt level in euros, Goldman Sachs said. The bank then arranged new cross- currency swaps and restructured its other swaps with Greece at a historical exchange rate in December 2000 and June 2001.
New York-based Goldman Sachs helped Greece raise $1 billion of off-balance-sheet funding through the swap, which EU regulators said they knew nothing about until recently.
The Greek authorities told Eurostat that repayment on the swap contract began in 2004, the statistics office said. “The increase in government debt due to this specific swap operation from 2004 onwards” will have to be determined, Eurostat said.