For “incredible pressure” he received from the then Deputy Minister of Justice Dimitris Papagelopoulos for his consideration in the case of a businessman Andreas Wgenopoulos– said in her testimony the respected prosecutor of the appellate instance. Georgia Tsatani before a special court.

The prosecutor, who has condemned the former minister since 2016, when he was in power, reiterated yesterday that she was pressured and threatened on her life by Dimitris Papagelopoulos. He mentioned that the then prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Efterpi Kutsamani, was subjected to similar pressure.

“I experienced,” the prosecutor stressed, “great pressure and unimaginable persecution. However, I do not link the attack against me with the accused. (We remind you that in 2016 a powerful explosive device went off near her house). under government charges. I submitted a handwritten report against him about the pressure I received. I did this to ensure her privacy. I presented it to the then Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Efterpis Koutzamani, and the then Director of the Prosecutor’s Office of Appeal, Isidoros Dogiakos, without giving the slightest publicity.”

Research in Parliament

The witness referred to an investigation by the parliamentary transparency committee when Dimitris Papagelopoulos was still a minister, noting that “even today he has not received a response.” The prosecutor highlighted what preceded her report of pressure on her work by Dimitris Papagelopoulos, saying: “I didn’t wake up one morning to denounce the all-powerful Deputy Minister of Justice at the time and then suffer what they were suffering. After all, I presented my report institutionally and quietly.”

She spoke in detail about her handling of the Vgenopoulos case, emphasizing that at the coordination meeting held in 2015 at the Ministry of Justice in the case between the competent judicial authorities from Greece and Cyprus, Dimitris Papagelopoulos entered in her presence, declaring his presence. She said that he refused and asked him to leave the room, which he did. Subsequently, he emphasized that he was hit by a flurry of publications with offensive descriptions and disparaging comments. “From that day in the ministry,” he said, “Eol’s sack has been opened against me.” The witness testified that at her meeting – official, as she described it – at the Ministry of Justice dem. Papagelopoulos pressured her for manipulating the Vgenopoulos case, while adding that in two subsequent phone calls he began to threaten her with the phrase “If you want to spend Christmas at home …” and that she “has a bomb in her hands that will explode “.

“criminal crimes”

A little earlier, the accused ex-minister commented on the testimony of the Pan Prosecutor. Athanasiou, who also denounced him for interfering with his work.

“He committed criminal offenses,” the defendant emphasized and added: “If I had put pressure on him, he should have immediately filed a case against me, or at least reported it to the authorities. He betrayed a 40-year friendship. He showed unprecedented ingratitude at my expense. Three votives were found that accused me of them and testified against me.