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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called an emergency meeting of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence...

The Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence (KYSEA) is scheduled to convene under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras...

Former PASOK ministers Vaso Papandreou and Yannis Papantoniou are set to testify today in court in the appeal launched by...

The former Prime Minister Kostas Simitis and the president of PASOK Evangelos Venizelos are set to testify in court on...

The members of the Government Council of National Defense (KYSEA) from the late 1990s have been summoned to testify in...

The recently-recaptured Vicky Stamati has announced that she intends to visit prosecutor Grigoris Peponis on Monday in order...

The seven members of the Government Council on National Defense (KYSEA) between 1998 and 1999 have been summoned...

The prosecutors handling the appeal of convicted former National Defense Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos have requested that...

The defense team of the convicted former Minister of National Defense Akis Tsohatzopoulos has requested that the Felony...

According to the civil action brought against Akis Tsohatzopoulos, the former Minister of National Defense deceived the members of the Government Council of National Defense (KYSEA) on numerous occasions, in order to collect bribes. Regarding the controversial submarine deal, prosecutor Dionisis Kolovos stressed that Mr. Tsohatzopoulos and his partner-in-crime Yannis Sbokos manipulated and withheld information […]

In his final remarks of his testimony, former Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos decided to “apologize” to the Greek people and PASOK voters, however not for the corruption and bribery charges he is being accused of, but rather the financial crisis plaguing Greece. Mr. Tsohatzopoulos asked “the Greek people to have open mind, based on all the […]

The former Minister of National Defense Akis Tsohatzopoulos claimed that the charges brought against him came from “political and judicial centers of power” that are based on “desires from above”. In his testimony Mr. Tsohatzopoulos avoided making any reference to the evidence against him, the cash flows and off-shore companies tied to him. Instead, he […]

Today’s session of the Akis Tsohatzopoulos trial was as tense as previous sessions, thanks to the repeated interventions and protests by the former Minister of National Defense and his co-defendant Yannis Sbokos. The prosecution submitted secret documents from the Navy General Staff that detail how the deals were set up to appear legal. The prosecution […]

The former Minister of National Defense Akis Tsohatzopoulos will be present at today’s session of his trial at the Felony Appeal Court. Mr. Tsohatzopoulos had announced on the 24th of May that he would return when “the [court] deals with serious matters”. The former Minister chose to abstain from the proceedings as the court has […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will host a meeting by the Government Council on National Defense (KYSEA) at 2pm on Thursday, in order to discuss the new structure of the Armed Forces. Sources from Maximou Hall suggest that the new structure was approved on Tuesday by the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Defense, […]

Former Minister of National Defense Akis Tsohatzopoulos announced that he will not be attending future trial sessions “until [the court] addresses serious matters”. Mr. Tsohatzopoulos explained that his intention is to protest, not ignore, the procedure. This development, which was hinted at the previous trial session, came after the Felony Appeal Court handling the case […]

Former Minister of National Defense Akis Tsohatzopoulos has threatened to leave the trial if the former members of the Government Council on National Defense (KYSEA) are not summoned to testify. Mr. Tsohatzopoulos’ defense attorney Giannis Pagoropoulos requested that the trial be postponed until next Wednesday, in order to redefine his client’s stance. Mr. Pagoropoulos stressed […]

The trial of former Minister of National Defense Akis Tsohatzopoulos resumes after the weekend break today with testimony of SDOE executive Nikos Maitos, which continues for the third day. During questioning by the defense, the court president Katsianis pointed out to him that SDOE did not insist on identifying the real owners of the American […]

Today’s court session of the Akis Tsohatzopoulos trial began with a bit of tension when the former Minister of National Defense claimed that his trial “political” and that he has been “politically persecuted for the past three years”. The prosecutor Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos told the Mr.Tsohatzopoulos that the trial was “purely penal” and that “if we […]

The Felony Appeal Court has rejected all of the defense’s objections in the Akis Tsohatzopoulos trial. As expected, the court adopted the prosecution’s argument and debunked the objections one by one. There were only a few reservations about Vicky Stamati, as her lawyer insists that the crime she is charged with took place in a […]