The as of today, its responsibilities are officially transferred to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (IAPR).
Effective today, all SDOE data is being transferred to the relevant information systems of the AADE. To facilitate the transfer of all rights, claims, assets, and logistical equipment required by the SDOE, a detailed handover protocol between the competent departments of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) and the Ministry of National Economy and Finance.
The transfer of all services, permanent positions, personnel, records, logistical equipment, and all types of assets of the SDOE, as well as the logistical equipment of the General Directorate of the Financial Crime Investigation Corps of the General Secretariat for Tax Policyof the Ministry of National Economy and Finance, is finalized by a joint decision of Deputy Minister of Finance George Kotsiras and AADE Governor George Pitsilis.
The employees (approximately 360) of the SDOE who are being transferred to the AADE retain their positions in the corresponding transferred permanent posts, their employment relationship, and their overall civil service status until December 31, 2025; during this period, they shall not be subject to transfer procedures, except in cases where urgent operational needs of the AADE must be met.
Pending appointment procedures for employees at the SDOE after October 6, 2025, will be finalized by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), to which all relevant files—in both physical and digital form—must be transferred. Secondments and assignments, whether within or outside the Ministry of National Economy and Finance, of the employees listed in the table of the decision, shall remain in effect until their expiration.
SDOE employees who perform auditing duties are required to submit to the Human Resources Management Directorate (D.D.A.D.) of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) a report on their prior work experience, signed by themselves and their supervisor, by September 30, 2025, describing the audit subjects and cases they handled from 2022 until the date of publication of the decision, which they are required to present upon their arrival at the AADE.
The incumbent heads and deputy heads of organizational units at all levels of the SSDOE will continue to perform their duties in the organizational units where they are currently assigned even after their transfer to the AADE until December 31, 2025. As of January 1, 2026, the transferred SDOE employees will be classified into Job Descriptions (JD) and the corresponding grades within the organizational units of the AADE.
All pending audit cases will be transferred to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) as of October 6, 2025, and in any event, this number must correspond to the number of cases that have not been finalized by the aforementioned date in the Case Management System of the ELENXIS Information System of the Ministry of Finance. Responsibility for handling and finalizing the aforementioned cases lies exclusively with the employees who have the preliminary investigations pending as of October 6, 2025, the date of their transfer to the AADE, regardless of the organizational structure within the AADE to which they will be assigned and regardless of the PTH to which they will be classified within the AADE after January 1, 2026.
Pending trials concerning cases falling under the jurisdiction of the Financial Crime Investigation Service (SDOE) will continue without further formalities and without being forcibly interrupted or declared to be restarted, by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) as of October 6, 2025. Court decisions issued in cases falling under the jurisdiction of the Financial Crime Investigation Service (SDOE) are binding on the AADE as of October 6, 2025.
For the record, it should be noted that the SDOE began operations on April 10, 1997, in July 2005 it was renamed the Special Audit Service (YpEE), but in April 2010 it reverted to its former name, «SDOE.».
The mission of the SDOE was to uncover and combat sources of economic crime, to monitor the movement of capital, and to regulate the possession and trafficking of prohibited items and substances or those subject to special regulations, to ensure the proper implementation of provisions related to national and EU subsidies and grants, and to uncover cases of corruption and fraud.
