The three-member Court of Criminal Appeals of Ioannina imposed a 5-year prison sentence on the former Corfu First District Prosecutor Maria Tatakis, who sat in the dock accused of criminal abuse of power and for embezzlement of public documents.

The case came to light in 2019 and is related to the ex-judiciary’s removal of thousands of case files from her service, resulting in the statute of limitations on thousands of misdemeanors, felonies and misdemeanors.

Maria Tataki, by unanimous decision of the Plenary of the Supreme Court on April 14, 2022, was dismissed from the House without the right to work.

The case was revealed in 2019 by the then appeals prosecutor of Corfu and her former supervisor, Vasiliki Christouli, after a systematic investigation, following complaints that reached her office.

At the same time, the court acquitted the former deputy head of the Office of the Prosecutor’s Office, accused of complicity in the criminal act.

Mrs. Tataki appealed the decision.

About a thousand of the above case files, ready, according to her confession, to be burned, were found in her friend’s warehouse in the village of Garouna, Corfu, while others were in the house where she herself lived.

To date, the fate of 156 case files remains unknown.