Two Special courts, who have been adjudicating cases with accused former SYRIZA-ANEL government ministers since autumn, have reached the end of the process and it is only a matter of time before their decisions are made. Before the start of the pre-election period, as in the case of the dissolution of Parliament, the special courts must cease under the Constitution, the issuance of decisions is expected to be completed – in both cases – irrevocably closing the cycle of two courts with a clear political mark.

Trial with former Minister of State as defendant Nikos Pappa and his co-defendant businessman Christos Kalogritsa, regarding the manipulation and background of the competition for television licenses, has passed the stage of development by the lawyers of the two defendants of their positions, while the decision of the Special Court has been set and will be released on Friday 24 February. In court, witnesses, documents and emails provided by businessman Chr. Kalogritsas to prove his assertions that, at the behest of N. Papp, he took part in the competition for a television license to create a channel friendly to the then government. The businessman’s secretary, Ethalia Diamanti, who was questioned as a witness, caused a sensation when she said that “envelopes and suitcases with money left the office of Kalogritsa towards the SYRIZA party.”

The prosecutor of the trial, Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Olga Smyrlis asked the court to send the minutes of the court session regarding the testimony of the secretary of Kalogritsa to the prosecutor for further investigation. In the Special Court, two defendants did not apologize, and N. Pappas did not appear at the trial from the very beginning, saying that this was a “political trial” and a “political case” fabricated by his political opponents. The prosecutor spoke in favor of the rehabilitation of Pappas N., arguing that his participation in the tender process does not arise, and her proposal is acquittal for Chr. Ladybug.

The Prosecutor of the Special Court offered to release both former ministers.

Special Court with former Deputy Minister of Justice as defendant Dimitris Papagelopoulos and prosecutor Eleni Tulupaki, who began hearing the case in September last year, is also in the process of hiring lawyers for the defendants. Dem. Papagelopoulos is on trial for a series of interferences with the work of three prosecutors who publicly – in parliament and in the judiciary – condemned him for trying to impose certain manipulations on cases that were in their hands. Among the prosecutors who denounced the former minister was Eleni Raikou, who for a number of years headed the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Pan. Athanasiou, who was the head of the economic prosecutor’s office, and Georgia Tzatani, who handled the case of the late businessman Andreas Vgenopoulos.

The accusation before Dem. Papagelopoulos for complaints of interference with justice is a dereliction of duty, a crime prosecuted as a misdemeanor. However, in addition to the aforementioned charge, the former minister is also on trial as a moral offender in the offense of abuse of power (felony) charged against prosecutor Eleni Tulupaki for not submitting a KINAL report to parliament on the two former ministers. health care through SYRIZA-ANEL (Kurumpli and Xantho) on issues related to drug pricing.

The prosecutor – Olga Smirli is also involved in this process, since she was prosecuted in both special courts – proposed to acquit Tulupakis and Papagelopoulos for abuse of power and moral robbery of the former minister, arguing that the report against Kurumplis and Xanthos was not sent to Parliament. because it was not specific and no separate case was opened on it, and also that the former minister had nothing to do with the inaction of the prosecutor Tulupakis. The prosecutor also acquitted Papagelopoulos of interfering with justice, describing the prosecutors who denounced him as unreliable and their testimony contradictory and false. The court’s decision is expected to be delivered between the 27th and 28th of the month.

During the trial before the Special Court against Dim. Papagelopoulos and Eleni Toulupakis, the part that was also in charge, have not been tried for their manipulation of blaming ten politicians in the Novartis scandal since that chapter was closed with an acquittal of all those involved by the Judicial Council Special Court last summer.