The Greek government has lost €11.2million (£9.8million) of European Commission funding for breaches in rules over the purchase of 50 Neoplan trolleybuses for the 2004 Athens Olympics. This only came to light as Germany prosecutors began an investigation into Neoplan parent company MAN, which is alleged to have paid huge sums in bribes to sell and lease vehicles.rnState prosecutors in Munich say MAN is believed to have systematically paid millions of Euros in bribes inside and outside German in exchange for deals to sell and lease buses and trucks. Lead prosecutor Manfred Noetzel told Deutsche Welle radio that 'a system for procuring sales of trucks and buses existed'.
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