The information, according to Bild comes from a response by the federal government to a parliamentary question by the German Green party who have in the past argued for the return of all profits from the Greek loans back to Athens.
The profits come from a range of programs that Germany and other euro-zone countries, who are also stand to profit, including a €393-million profit generated from a 2010 loan by the development bank KfW, which is owned by the German government.
The ECB also collected more than €1.1 billion in interest payments in 2016 on the nearly €20 billion-worth of Greek bonds it owns. In 2017 the profits reached €901 million, earmarked for redistribution to euro zone’s 19 member states.
