He was arrested again in Nea Ionia, Attica the former children’s basketball coach, Nikos Seiragakiswho he had been sentenced to 401 years in prison (maximum prison term, maximum sentence – 25 years) for child molestation against 36 minor boys in Rethymno, Crete and was released after 12.5 years.

The prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Isidoros Dogiakos, had asked the Nafplion Appeals Prosecutor’s Office to forward to him the will by which the coach was released from prison after 12.5 years of imprisonment. Seiragakis had been convicted in the first instance for child abuse and attempted child abuse at the expense of 36 children, while the court of appeal imposed the same sentence on him.

He was arrested again because “no. 3554/2023 from 09/06/2023 order of the Nafplion Appellate Prosecutor’s Office, which ordered his arrest, as well as the continuation of his detention pursuant to no. 110,123,124/2016 from 10/11/2026 of the decision of the Mixed Court of Appeal of Piraeus”

It is recalled that Nikos Seiragakis was sentenced to 401 years in prison, which, with the merger, there were 220. The actual construction years are reduced to 25 and finally to 20, according to the new Penal Code.

At the end of April 2020, he was released from prison in Grevena, where he was serving his sentence, but a few days later he was arrested for violating his parole conditions and taken to prison. In April 2023 he was released again.

THE 59 years old will be taken to the Athens Appeals Prosecutor’s Office tomorrow.