All their work to redress the country's disastrous finances, the Greek authorities track down tax evaders peeling including all expenses of pension funds. And make strange discoveries.
They are for example reported that 321 people died continued to receive their pension post-mortem. "We discovered that retirement was paid to a person who died in 1999 and documented cases of pensions paid to people who died there are five or seven years," said Vice-Minister of Labour, George Koutroumanis.
If the Ministry of Labour is still not known how many pensioners in the country, he counted at least 8,500 of them who receive a monthly pension when they are between 100 and 110 years. Strange, in a country that in 2008 there were only 2,665 centenarians, according to official figures.
"How could they have tripled in just two years?" Surprised an advisor to the Minister. Intrigued, the government will push his investigation by checking the status of 20,000 people over 95 years here in October. He then moved quickly to tackle the 30,000 Greeks receiving a disability pension might be unwarranted. With probably more surprises in perspective.