Two more defendants, ERGOSE officials, who pleaded guilty before the European Investigator Christina Salappa for contract 717 regarding projects for the signaling and remote control of the railway network, left the courts free with the obligation to pay a very high monetary guarantee, greater than those imposed until today for the case, which in total reaches 1.7 million euros.

The investigator and the competent authorized European Prosecutor Popi Papandreou decided that the two defendants from ERGOSE, after the many hours of apologies they gave, can be released with the restrictive condition of the ban on exiting the country and the obligation to pay a monetary guarantee that must be paid within specific period of time. For one defendant, the bail was set at 800 thousand euros, while for the other at 900 thousand euros.

Until today, three employees of ERGOSE had apologized before Mrs. Shallapa, whose financial guarantees were set at 600 thousand, 500 thousand and 700 thousand euros.

After today’s apologies and with the imposition of guarantees which now reach a total of 3.5 million euros, Mrs. Salappa will receive in the next few days apologies from other nine defendants from ERGOSE, while then the apologies from four accused executives of the Administrative Authority of Operational Program for Transport Infrastructure, Environment and Sustainable Development (EYD/EP-YMEPERAA). The five individuals, executives of the consortium that undertook the project, are expected to be the last to cross the threshold of the investigative office.