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Akis Tsochatzopoulos

Greek Politicians’ Fake Success Story

The German weekly news magazine Focus in its article, A Fake Success Story, strongly criticizes the supposedly success story of Greece’s Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras. “Looks can be deceiving: The calm that seem to generally prevail, the lack of mass...

Zigras Points at Tsochatzopoulos Again

Former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos' cousin Nikolaos Zigras gave more damning evidence in the former minister's corruption trial on May 31, alleging a series of kickbacks from defense contracts took place. Appearing at the Athens Court of Appeal which...

Tsochatzopoulos' Suitcases Stuffed With Cash

Former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, on trial for an array of corruption and money-laundering charges, used offshore firms and fake companies to hide his trail, and also packed suitcases with cash, a key prosecution witness testified. The claims were...

Simitis Won't Appear In Tsochatzopoulos Case

The Athens Appeals Court hearing the trial of former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos for money laundering has rejected his request for the former members of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA), including ex-Prime Minister Costas Simitis,...

Supreme Court Appoints Corruption Chiefs

Greece's highest court has appointed two new financial prosecutors to replace the outgoing investors Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis who have been digging into a slew of scandals and produced cases against high-level former government officials. Panayiotis Athanasiou, who has...

Tsochatzopoulos Gang Back To The Dock

Disgraced former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos and 18 other suspects will appear again on May 8 before the three-member panel of the Athens Court of Appeal in their trial for a number of corruption charges, including money-laundering in a...

Tsochatzopoulos Denies Taking Bribes

Former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, whose corruption trial began with great fanfare on April 22, said he never accepted bribes or laundered money prosecutors said he received from offshore companies. Tsochatzopoulos, wo has been in jail for a year and...

Tsochatzopoulos Back to Court

The first morning hours of 11 April 2012, the Public prosecutor Popi Papandreou rang the bell of the neoclassical house at Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, announcing the former Minister of Defense his arrest warrant for political money laundering. Akis Tsochatzopoulos...

Switzerland Probing Tsochatzopoulos Too

Already in detention, sentenced to eight years in prison for failing to disclose his wealth, and facing more serious charges of money laundering and corruption, former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos is being investigated by Swiss prosecutors trying to...

Tsochatzopoulos Charges Political Coverup

Former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, who has been detained in jail for nearly a year and was just sentenced to an eight-year term  for failing to disclose his wealth while he awaits trial on more serious charges, has...