Greece's statistics chief faces criminal probe

``"I am being prosecuted for not cooking the books," Mr Georgiou told the Financial Times. "We would like to be a good, boring institution doing its job. Unfortunately, in Greece statistics is a combat sport..." Mr Georgiou is due to appear before Greece's prosecutor for financial crime on December 12 to answer the charges. If convicted of "betraying the country's interests", he could face life '' -- Is there any reason that telling the truth would not be considered "betraying the country's interests" by a sufficiently hostile court