Banque d'Orient and the National Bank of Greece
A bank acquired in 1932. A liquidation account that was never closed.
The documented case of the Banque d'Orient bearer shareholders against the National Bank of Greece.
What this site is, and what it is not
We are not a bank.
We are the Banque d'Orient Shareholders' Community, holders of shares in a bank that stopped operating in 1932. We take no deposits, offer no banking or investment services and sell no shares or bonds.
This site presents a civil case: bearer shareholders of the Banque d'Orient, in Greece and abroad, ask the National Bank of Greece to honour the terms of the 1932 merger contract.
The case has nothing to do with Artemis Sorras, the "600 billion" claims or any "Banque d'Orient bonds". Those claims were false; the people behind this site investigated and publicly refuted them.
Every statement here rests on a document filed in court or held in a public archive.
Six documents from official records
NBG's position is that the liquidation ended on 28 December 1936 and that the bank has not existed since. The documents below come from the Greek State, from foreign authorities and from NBG itself.
The ledger of the account "Banque d'Orient, Liquidation Account", certified by NBG's Historical Archive, with entries to August 1938.
The Ministry of Finance writes to NBG "as liquidator of the Banque d'Orient" and asks how the capital is being returned to shareholders.
NBG goes to the Council of State as liquidator of the Banque d'Orient. The State owes the bank 1,482,042 drachmas.
The French Treasury taxes the inheritance of seven of the bank's shares. The seven certificates are now in NBG's Historical Archive.
NBG's branches in Egypt inform Athens that they are scaling down the liquidation work and transferring the files of the "still pending court cases".
NBG's Board Secretariat replies that the merger contract "is not located in the bank's archive".
Saving the archive
In 2011 no public body held a complete file on the Banque d'Orient. The case archive was built document by document, from archives and families in five countries, and scanned in full.
