During today’s second day of his testimony before the Special Court on Ministerial Responsibility, the former Deputy Minister of Justice Dimitris Papagelopoulosdeclared that everything attributed to him was fabricated, paranoid and false.

At the beginning of his apology, Mr. Papagelopoulos partially reconstructed his apology of yesterday regarding the part that he had said about the testimony of the former financial crimes prosecutor’s witness. Panagiotis Athanasioustating:

“I did not want to say yesterday that Athanasiou was mentally unstable. Such was his rage to avenge me because he thought I would see to it that his term be extended. But he also received compromises, immunity for the illegal acts he committed.

Don’t forget that Tulupaki is on trial because she kept the Panagiotis Kurumplis case in office for several days and Mr. Athanasiou has been handling the case for 4 years with 4 ND ministers.

He foolishly thought that his term could be extended. But his term would not be extended even if God said so.

This is how Ms. Eleni Raikou was recruited by my political persecutors to make the Novartis scandal appear to be my fault. But five judges of the Supreme Court (s.s.: Judges of the Judicial Council of the Special Court) ruled that this was not a scam. Because otherwise I’d have to have an accomplice in my gang and the FBI.”

Then, when asked by the President of the Special Court, Vassiliki Iliopoulou, why Mr. Athanasiou would tell all these lies (as the accused claimed), Mr. Papagelopoulos replied that they had pointed them out to him and fabricated them, as he had been promised. immunity for all that he had done, and added that Mr. Athanasiou harbored hatred towards him, had elements of vindictiveness towards him and his lies were incessant.

In fact, Mr. Papagelopoulos asked a rhetorical question: “Let’s see if the New Democracy is re-elected, what position will Mr. Athanasiou take.”

Regarding the testimony of former anti-corruption prosecutor Eleni Raikou (who was replaced by Eleni Tulupaki), Mr. Papagelopoulos said she is a liar, her claims are false, her claims are insane and everything “is a figment of her imagination.” “, at the same time he tried to hide the close family relationship between them. In addition to their joint expenses in taverns, etc., she herself very often, two or three times a week, according to the accused, visited him at the Ministry of Justice.

In addition, Mr. Papagelopoulos claimed that Ms. Raikou wanted to support former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. According to the defendant, “Mr. Samaras asked me for a favor, I knew he was giving bribes and tied them up.”

Subsequently, Mr. Papagelopoulos observed that Ms. Raikou repeated what Mr. Samaras had alleged in his lawsuit. (It is recalled that Mr. Samaras filed suit in the Novartis case against Alexis Tsipras, Mr. Papagelopoulos, Eleni Tulupakis, protected witnesses, and others).

In addition, Mr. Papagelopoulos refuted the testimony of Appellants’ Attorney Georgia Tzatani as false. According to the defendant, at a meeting with Ms. Tsatani at the Ministry of Justice, the latter told him that she had good relations with Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and that her husband was in party relations with the ND. According to the former Deputy Minister of Justice, Ms. Tsatsani is obsessed with the absurd, and everything she said is lies and fabrication, and she herself was part of a gang that tried to cover up the scandals.

Finally, Mr. Papagelopoulos referred to the Novartis case, characteristically saying:

“I didn’t believe in the Novartis scandal. This case is a very big scandal, but I didn’t think it would work because the foreigners want to hold those who gave the bribe hostage. I thought this case had nothing to do, and I even told the Prime Minister about it.”

Mr. Papagelopoulos’ apology continues the day after tomorrow, Thursday, February 2, 2023.

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