Father Antonios and his wife Stamatia Georgantis are asked to give explanations for three crimes, as part of the investigation into what happened in “Ark of Peace“.

After the completion of the testimony, Athens Attorney General Ioannis Sevis calls the founder of the Peace Ark and an elder to testify without trial on charges of disloyalty to the organization, embezzlement, and money laundering from illegal activities.

According to the information, the crime of adultery concerns expenses over 190,000 euros for the purchase of real estate in Pogoniani, the repairs made to it, as well as the payment of transfer tax.

The theft, for which Father Antonios and the elder are asked to explain, concerns an amount of tens of thousands of euros found in the house where the couple lived. In said apartment, which belonged to the Ark, but and in the lockers of two checked. The prosecutor checks whether the amounts under investigation and the manner in which they are disposed of lead to the commission of a money laundering offense.

Statements from both the founder of the NGO and the elder who was its president will be sent to the prosecutor’s office to decide whether there are grounds for opening a criminal case or whether it should be closed and archived.

Father Antonios has been charged with serious crimes and misdemeanors following an investigation by the juvenile prosecutor’s office. on allegations of sexual and physical abuse of children guests in the structures of NGOs.