2006-2010

Georgios Sxoiniotakis

The former State Prosecutor General of the Hellenic Court of Audit, Georgios K. Schoiniotakis, was born in 1943 in Lasithi Lakes, Crete and happens to be married with two children. He is a graduate of the School of Law of the University of Athens, and holds a master's degree in law from the University of Paris (D.S.U.) (Sorbonne – Paris II). He holds degrees : a) of the University of Milan (field of letters and philosophy), b) of the University of Vienna (philosophical faculty) and c) studied for one academic year (1978 – 1979) at the International Department of the French School of Judges, for foreign judges (Ecole Nationale) de la Magistrature). He was appointed as the Chief Prosecutor in the Athens Prosecutor's Office of First Instance in 1972, promoted to Deputy Prosecutor in 1974 and to Prosecutor of First Instance in 1981. Appointed as President of the Hellenic Court of Audit in 1986. He was promoted to Councilor of the Court of Audit in 1992 and to Vice President in 2002. In August 2006 was promoted to General State Commissioner of the Hellenic Court of Audit. From 1986 to 1988 he was head of the Appeal Judge Service at DI.D.A.G.E.P. controlling the FEOGA funds for the implementation of the CAP in Greece. He participated in the Auditing College of the International Legal Entity named "International Center for Advanced Agricultural Mediterranean Studies" based in Paris, from 1986 until 2009, and was its President six times. From time to time he has also checked the accounts of other international bodies, such as e.g. of the Western European Union for the Defense and Security of Europe and the Center for the Protection of Political Refugees, based in Paris. He knows French, English, German and Italian and has written three studies on the management of public money, one of which is in French, entitled "LA BONNE GESTION FINANCIERE ET SON CONTROLE". He left the Service on July 1, 2010.