Panagiotis Nikoloudis
Panagiotis Nikoloudis (; born 1949) is a Greek prosecutor who served as the Minister of State for Combatting Corruption in the Caretaker Cabinet of Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou and the Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. Professional career He had been deputy prosecutor-general of the Greek Supreme Court and chairman of the Finance Intelligence Unit, a watchdog responsible for investigating financial crimes. In February 2012, Nikoloudis revealed that one Member of the Hellenic Parliament (MP) had deposited one million Euros abroad in May 2011. In a session of the parliamentary Committee for Institutions and Transparency, he said, "To take your money abroad is not a sin, it is not illegal in the formal sense of the law, but for me it is indicative." In response, the Deputy Prime Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, revealed that the Ministry of Finance had found a number of instances of MPs sending money abroad in 2011 and had asked for the Finance Intelligence Unit's help on a number of these cases. Political career On 27 January 2015, Nikoloudis was appointed as Minister of State for Combatting Corruption in Alexis Tsipras' cabinet. Shortly after taking on the role, in February 2015, he said that he was targeting a "handful of families