Meeting with European Chief Prosecutor Kövesi on customs and tax fraud issues at Greek finance ministry

Economy and Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis on Wednesday had a gathering with European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kövesi, attended by Deputy Economy and Finance Minister George Kotsiras and the caput of the Independent Authority for Public Revenues (IAPR) George Pitsilis. Also contiguous astatine the gathering were the caput of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) Strategy and Executive Office Unit, Milan Jaron, and Greek European Prosecutor Nikolaos Paschalis.

The gathering centred connected further boosting practice betwixt Greece and the EPPO connected much efficaciously combating customs and taxation fraud. Pierrakakis and Pitsilis presented to the main authoritative a broad program for modernising and reinforcing Greek customs offices, which is being implemented nether the sanction Customs NextGEN.
The program provides for the pursuing actions by 2029:
– Fully incorporating the SDOE fiscal crimes portion into IAPR wrong October 2025
– Establishing Authorised Economic Operators (AEOs)
– Creating a Control Centre for Customs Documents
– Establishing a Hellenic Digital Customs Borders strategy successful 2026
– Setting up a specalised Piraeus Container Targeting Centre until September 2026 for locating fishy containers astatine Piraeus Port, successful collaboration with the HMRC and UK Border Force.
– Completing a Union Customs Code (UCC) and Digitalisation betterment (2026-2029).
The gathering besides discussed the financing of these actions and different related issues.
According to the ministry, the fantabulous level of practice betwixt Greece and the EPPO was confirmed, arsenic good arsenic the willingness to further heighten communal enactment to summation transparency and the extortion of the Greek and European budget.

source ANA-MPA