Four Complaints Brought Down a Ghost-Worker Fraud Ring That Looted Greece's Social Security Fund

A telephone tip, two formal complaints and one anonymous letter filed in 2024 set in motion the investigation that dismantled an organized fraud ring which prosecutors say systematically plundered Greece's main social security fund, EFKA, by registering thousands of fictitious workers at shell companies for years. Three accountants are identified as the ringleaders of an operation that investigators believe was running in its current organized form since at least 2018, with some participants ...

By ANTHEE CARASSAVA