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Daily Ethnos newspaper reported on Tuesday that a central bank
audit found violations by a number of bankers employed by
Piraeus bank from 2014 to last year.
Beta Securities trader Takis Zamanis said that one of the
reasons behind the share price drop was "media reports related
to employees of the bank."
Piraeus Bank, responding to a query by the country's securities
watchdog following the newspaper article, said on Tuesday it had
not received the central bank's report. Piraeus also said in its
statement it aimed to cooperate fully with the authorities
conducting the audit.
A source familiar with the matter said that Greece's central
bank had sent a Supreme Court prosecutor details of the findings
into Piraeus Bank <BOPr.AT> that found some of its bankers were
involved in regulatory violations.
"Excerpts of the findings in the Bank of Greece audit (into
Piraeus Bank), naming bankers, have been sent to a Supreme
Court's prosecutor," the source said, declining to be named.
"The full findings of the audit will follow."
A Supreme Court prosecutor has received the findings of the
central bank's audit, a court official told Reuters.
(Reporting by Athens Newsroom. Editing by Jane Merriman)
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