By Ahmet Gencturk
ATHENS (AA) – A senior Greek employee of the UN has been accused of skimming over $1 million, local media reported on Tuesday.
The suspect’s sham activities, took place from 2014 to 2021, were exposed during a routine UN audit, which exposed that she had been submitting expense reports with forged documents, according to a report by the daily Kathimerini.
It added that the case was initially submitted by the UN to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, which in the process decided that it lacked jurisdiction and consequently forwarded the file to the Athens Prosecutor’s Office.
Responsible Greek prosecutor, summoned the suspect for questioning but where she denied the accusations and claimed that she was a victim of her superiors.
The prosecutor later pressed charges for two felonies and referred the case to an investigative judge, according to the report.