He was found guilty of two breaches of duty – Prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki was acquitted
By Ioanna Mandrou
The former minister was sentenced to a fine of 10 thousand euros Dimitris Papagelopoulos. The sentence against the former minister was imposed by a majority, after the recognition by the Special Court of two mitigating factors, the previous honest life and the good behavior after the act.
The district attorney Olga Smyrli earlier proposed to the Court a fine of one thousand euros for Dimitris Papaggelopoulos.
The low sentence against the former minister essentially nullifies his conviction, combined with the fact that Dimitris Papagelopoulos was convicted of two breaches of duty, but was acquitted of other complaints made against him by prosecutors, among which the appeals prosecutor Georgia Tsatani for the case of businessman Andreas Vgenopoulos and the former head of the Economic Prosecutor’s Office Pan. Athanasiou for a series of other cases.
In particular, by the Special Court, the former minister was found guilty of two breaches of duty. One related to the complaints of the prosecutor Eleni Raikou, that he pressured her to send a case file with politicians, without evidence, to the Parliament for the Novartis case, and the other complaint by the prosecutor Panagiotis Athanasiou that he accepted interventions in the case of the former head of Piraeus Bank Michalis Salla.
The conviction of the former minister was decided by a majority, while he was unanimously found not guilty on the charge of moral complicity in abuse of power, an offense related to the omission of the prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki, who was acquitted.
The acquittal of the prosecutor concerned the charge of abuse of power and was obtained by a majority. The charge against her was related to her failure to send to the Parliament for the further reports of MPs of KINAL on drug invoicing that concerned the former ministers of the SYRIZA-ANEL Pan governments. Kouroumpli and Andreas Xanthou.
After her acquittal, prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki declared that “today is a day of vindication”, while her advocates expressed their satisfaction with the acquittal decision.
Source: Skai
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