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Fourteen long year after the launch of the trial of dozens of people linked to the Siemens bribery scandal, an Athens court handed down prison sentences of 15 years to the key suspects on Monday. Former CEO of Siemens Hellas...

Twenty-two defendants in the Siemens bribery scandal were found guilty by a Greek court on Tuesday, an incredible fourteen years after a judicial inquiry was first launched. Among those are former Siemens Hellas CEO Michalis Christoforakos, who was arrested in...

A former Greek minister should be found guilty of money laundering, a court heard on Monday. Tasos Mandelis, a former socialist transport minister, was found guilty of money laundering in the Siemens kickbacks case, and was handed an eight-year suspended sentence in...

Tasos Mandelis, a former socialist transport minister, was found guilty of money laundering in the Siemens kickbacks case, and was handed an eight-year suspended sentence. Judges ruled that Mandelis had received 450,000 German marks as a bribe for a contract...

On Monday, another postponement has developed in the Siemens cash-for-contracts trial taking place in Greece. This postponement is only expected to last one week, and will be back in court March 15. The delay occurred after OTE telecom and the...

The trial of sixty-four defendants charged with bribery, money laundering and being accessories to offenses related to the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal will restart at the Three-Member Felony Appeals Court in Athens on Friday. The trial had been postponed in July...

On On Tuesday, November 22, officials announced that the trials of dozens of individuals suspected in the Siemens cash-for-contracts trial is set to begin on February 24, 2017. The case initiated this summer but soon after was postponed due to...

According to a press release, Greek Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos is urging the courts to push ahead with the trial of Siemens cash-for-contracts trial case which has been indefinitely postponed. Paraskevopoulos is expected to meet with Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni...

The trial of Greek former transport minister Tassos Mantelis, who has been indicted for allegedly accepting bribes from Siemens slush funds, may well become another Siemens-related case that is quietly dropped -- or in this case "indefinitely adjourned" --...

Media reports claiming that the trial of suspects in the OTE-Siemens scandal was postponed on Tuesday for an indefinite period because of crucial material that had not been translated for the foreign defendants, are “false and unsubstantiated,” the Foreign...

There are dozens of individuals under suspect of participating in the Siemens bribes-for-contracts scandal. The trial has been indefinitely postponed due to missing translations of case-related documents into the German and French languages, after defendants' lawyers pointed out that according...

Ten years after the multi-million euro Siemens corruption scandal was exposed, the trial is about to start at the Athens Court of Appeals amid hurdles. The charges are for bribery and money laundering, as the Greek prosecution accuses former Siemens CEO...

Parliament President Zoe Konstantopoulou said on Monday she plans to summon Bank of Greece (BoG) governor Yiannis Stournaras, a former Greek Finance Minister, to testify before the Parliament's Institutions and Transparency Committee in connection with the Siemens case, so that...

Two ongoing corruption cases sent to Greek Parliament -- one relating to the Siemens scandal and one to the so-called 'Lagarde list' -- are to be "bumped up" the queue of cases pending and examined as a priority in...

The Greek Supreme Court's prosecution on Tuesday denied the petitions of four German nationals asking for the withdrawal of an indictment ordering them to stand trial for a Siemens kickbacks case. The petition was filed by Roland Koch, Reinhard Herbert Siekaczek,...