Plea presentations for the TT scandal start today - UPDATE:Court acquitted all defendants
Plea presentations for the TT scandal start today - UPDATE:Court acquitted all defendants
The Athens Criminal Court of Appeal with its No 2288/2020 Decision ruled that the crime of fraud as a felony attributed to the defendants has not been established
The pleas for the big scandal in the Hellenic Postbank (TT) start today, with the alleged main protagonist of the case Angelos Filippidia remaining detained in a Constantinople prison, after being arrested at a hotel in town.
Former deputy director of TT Marios Varotsis will appear first today in the office of the magistrate against Corruption G. Andreadis to answer for three felony acusations. He will have to refute the serious charges of fraud, infidelity and taking part in money laundering.
Tomorrow Tuesday, the investigating judge is expected to receive a plea from the accused businessman Dimitris Kontominas, who has also been arrested and hospitalized under guard from last week.
However, Filippidis’ testimony is expected to give new impetus to the hearing process. For his extradition to Greece the Turkish judicial authorities have requested to receive the case file and the charges he is facing. The relevant information will be sent today by the Greek Ministry of Justice to the Turkish authorities and if all goes well, will pave the way for his return to Greece.
The non-appearance of the former president TT to the investigator, while he was already informed that a warrant for his arrest was issued and his simultaneous telephone interviews to television stations, led the prosecutors to proceed with the issuing of an international warrant for his arrest.
The party with millions of euros in loans that some received from TT without ever returning a cent, resulting in a "black hole" of about 400 million euros, was revealed following an investigation by the prosecutor against corruption Popi Papandreou. The investigation revealed that entrepreneurs like Kontominas, Lavrentiadis, Kyriakos Griveas and Anastasia Vatsa, on Filippidis’ days received loans of millions but never returned them.
So far the defendants deny the charges. The involved former executives of TT say they have no responsibility for the granting of loans and their subsequent use, and businessman Kontominas said that his loans are all legitimate.
Former deputy director of TT Marios Varotsis will appear first today in the office of the magistrate against Corruption G. Andreadis to answer for three felony acusations. He will have to refute the serious charges of fraud, infidelity and taking part in money laundering.
Tomorrow Tuesday, the investigating judge is expected to receive a plea from the accused businessman Dimitris Kontominas, who has also been arrested and hospitalized under guard from last week.
However, Filippidis’ testimony is expected to give new impetus to the hearing process. For his extradition to Greece the Turkish judicial authorities have requested to receive the case file and the charges he is facing. The relevant information will be sent today by the Greek Ministry of Justice to the Turkish authorities and if all goes well, will pave the way for his return to Greece.
The non-appearance of the former president TT to the investigator, while he was already informed that a warrant for his arrest was issued and his simultaneous telephone interviews to television stations, led the prosecutors to proceed with the issuing of an international warrant for his arrest.
The party with millions of euros in loans that some received from TT without ever returning a cent, resulting in a "black hole" of about 400 million euros, was revealed following an investigation by the prosecutor against corruption Popi Papandreou. The investigation revealed that entrepreneurs like Kontominas, Lavrentiadis, Kyriakos Griveas and Anastasia Vatsa, on Filippidis’ days received loans of millions but never returned them.
So far the defendants deny the charges. The involved former executives of TT say they have no responsibility for the granting of loans and their subsequent use, and businessman Kontominas said that his loans are all legitimate.
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