GREECE AND CYPRUS ASSERT THAT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC DID NOT DEPOSIT ANY MONEY IN THEIR BANKS








BELGRADE, MARCH 2, 2001. /From RIA Novosti Correspondent Sergei Ryabikin/.  A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Greece has flatly rejected the assertions that ex-president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic has deposited in Greece the money he received from the sale of 173 kg of gold in Switzerland.  According to the Greek diplomat, the check-up has revealed that "these assertions are groundless." The government of the Republic of Cyprus has made a similar statement. Its representative Mihalis Papapetru stressed that the Cypriot authorities had made more than one check of that information, and all of them ended without any results.


	In the meantime the circumstances are being cleared up with the shipment from Yugoslavia of 173 kg of gold which, it is asserted, got to Switzerland last autumn through a local firm.  The arrival of the gold in Switzerland was confirmed by the Swiss customs authorities. A spokesman for the Ministry of the Economy of Switzerland declared that so far there was no confirmation that Milosevic had deposited the money he received from the sale of the gold on his account.