BANQUE D'ORIENT *ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΗΣ* Chapter No8 **Clearing the "key" for the stock**

Two documents, the first of 1939 and the second of the 1940s, appear to reinforce the impression that the process of completing the special liquidation of the "Bank of the East" was interrupted for some unknown so far.

Despite the claims that are included in the communiqué issued on Wednesday, September 21, by the National Bank, according to which the liquidation was completed in December 1936, it is awkward that at least until 1940 this process was not completed.

The date on which the telegram was sent is 11 May 1940. A few months before the country was involved in the Second World War. The reason why the branch requests information on the value of the share is clear. "Our customer accounts" are listed on the telegram.

The second document refers to a letter to the "National", a Greek from abroad, who obviously travels for business purposes between Paris and London, has a bank account with a British bank, owns shares of the Bank of the East and demands the "National "To inform him of the final valuation of the shares as determined by the special liquidation.

The individual beneficiary, as it appears from the context, is an entrepreneur or, in any case, has knowledge of banking matters. He has even visited the branch of Ethniki at 38 Avenue de l'Opera, where he also applied for "accountability for the liquidation of the Bank of the East", even pointing out that "your bank has already been cleared up years ", meaning that the undersigned, Mr G. Peristani, a resident of Kolonaki, knows the history of the stock. He just wants to liquidate his stock. The letter before the "National" of the beneficiary was sent on 20 March 1939.

The first conclusions to be drawn are that, contrary to the claims of Ethniki, in 1939 and 1940, the beneficiaries are quick to be informed of the fate of the liquidation, which seems neither public nor possibly complete. The accountability of the liquidation has not been issued in the GOV. No integration has been published. Customers and beneficiaries of the bank search for and request information![3.jpg]
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The zougla.gr he is in a position to know the existence of other subsequent documents, which certify that even after the beration of the country after the war, post-war, interested parties have been contacted by the bank for collecting information about the fate of this ... liquidation. In all these requests, the bank responds with ... silence.

However, the first document shows that there was also internal correspondence on this issue between central and branch offices of "Ethniki" after 1936, the date on which, according to the official announcement of the bank, the liquidation had been completed.

Both current beneficiaries and legal practitioners who have undertaken this case expect more than one set of claims from the bank. They await a formal document substantiating the bank's allegations as set out in the official announcement of Wednesday, September 21, 2011.

Source: zougla.gr (Friday, September 23, 2011)

Εventually the liquidation of the share was done or not? Who took the money ?? shareholders or the bank .. Stay tuned..