His decision do not apologize they also announced a businessman Christ Kalogritsa his defenders before him Special Courtclarifying the situation for the apology of the accused, as well as the former minister, Nikos Pappas, announced that he would not apologize.

Businessman –Tell mein from– announced his decision not to apologize, emphasizing, in particular, that “from the first day of the opening of the court session in this hall, I declared that I would be present at your trial in order to tell the truth. The truth will pass through Your Court,” I said. The truth and only the truth.”

“Your Honorable Court has at its disposal testimonies, there are documents, there is everything that I said during interrogation, there is everything that I said to the competent committee of parliament. First of all, these are the facts themselves, the existence of which cannot be disputed by any communicative tactics. Yesterday and today, through my lawyers, I asked you to check my cell phone yourself. Personally establish some facts. What else is left for me? So far, nothing, ”says the statement read out in court by the businessman’s lawyers.

Previously, the court accepted the prosecutor’s proposal and dismissed the objections of Nikos Pappa’s side of the violation of the confidentiality of messages and the forgery of the document of messages between the two parties, closing the chapter on challenging the messages presented as evidence of the Pappa-Kalogritz relationship.

For his part, the District Attorney Olga Smyrli explained, answering questions from the defense of former Minister Nikos Pappas about his proposal to hand over to the prosecutor the protocol with the testimony of Secretary Christos Kalogritsa, which he requested sent for review everything, both the pledge and its contents.