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Tsochatzopoulos Says He'll Name Names
Former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, on trial with 18 others on a laundry list of corruption and money-laundering charges of allegedly stealing hundreds of millions of euros from defense contracts, has vowed yet again to reveal the names of...
Crime
Tsochatzopoulos Says He Can’t Be Charged
Lawyers for former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos have asked a court to throw out a laundry list of corruption and money-laundering accusations against him, arguing that the statute of limitations has run out on the cases and that...
Greece
Tsochatzopoulos Faces Civil Charges Too
Former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, on trial with 18 others for corruption charges including money laundering in an alleged scheme to steal hundreds of millions of euros from defense contracts, will have a civil suit filed against him...
Crime
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...
Crime
Tsochatzopoulos Says Conviction Was Political
As he awaits trial on more serious charges of money-laundering and embezzling as much as one billion euros ($1.3 billion) from contracts he awarded, former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos said that his eight-year jail sentence for failing to...
Crime
Tsochatzopoulos Says He's Political Prisoner
Former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos said his eight-year jail sentence for failing to disclose his wealth, for which he was also fined 520,000 euros ($678,350) was “political persecution under a legal cloak” and directed by the government to get...
Greece
Never Mind Socrates, Let’s See the Trial of Tsochatzopoulos
ATHENS - More than 800 people turned out at the Onassis Foundation here to see a second re-creation of the most famous case in history, the rigged verdict of the Trial of Socrates in which the famed philosopher was...