Areti Tsochatzopoulou, who is on trial for money laundering with her father, former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, and another 17 co-defendants, submitted to an Athens court a document handing over three properties in her name to the state.
“I want to be honest opposite my fellow citizens,” she told the court hearing the trial, offering to give them to the government, only to be told that the state already seized them because they were alleged to have been bought with money stolen through defense contract kickbacks.
Her father, who was previously sentenced to eight years in jail for failing to declare all his wealth and the source of his income, is on trial for more serious charges of money laundering and corruption. He has denied all wrongdoing and blamed others for what he said was the failure to monitor contracts from which as a billion euros ($1.3 billion) was alleged to have been stolen.
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