lawmakers and the ... slow courts

"(...) In December 2009, four months before Greece sought a foreign bailout, Mr. Lavrentiadis bought a controlling stake in Proton Bank, which had expanded rapidly after acquiring a small bank called Omega in 2005. Omega’s board members included Mr. Lavrentiadis; the father-in-law at the time of Evangelos Venizelos, now the Socialist Party leader; and a brother of George Papandreou, a former prime minister. (...)
Several months earlier, however, lawmakers had quietly passed a law that allowed people suspected of wrongdoing to avoid prosecution if they repaid the money they were accused of stealing in certain crimes.The idea, legislators said, was to speed resolution of cases in Greece’s notoriously slow courts. Mr. Lavrentiadis quickly paid back the $65 million to Proton and claimed immunity. (...)"  For Greece, Oligarchs Are Obstacle to Recovery   New York Times

Και όσο το πολιτικό σύστημα συνεχίζει να μην ρίχνει φώς στην υπόθεση της λίστας Λαγκάρντ δημοσιεύματα σαν το παρακάτω προκαλούν το ενδιαφέρον

H ''Λίστα Λαγκάρντ'' και η... ηλιθιότητα του πολιτικού μικρόκοσμου της Αθήνας