Akis Tsohatzopoulos

A Greek criminal appeals court handed down a unanimous guilty verdict for Greece's former Defence Minister, Akis Tsohatzopoulos, and 15 other defendants accused of arranging illegal kickbacks for the purchase of the TOR-M1 missile system and Greek Navy submarines by the...

Former defense minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos stayed in prison one more day on Tuesday as his lawyers searched for their client’s old passport, which has to be submitted to the authorities before he is released, sources from his environment said...

An Athens criminal appeals court on Wednesday refused to lower the amount of bail that jailed former minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos must pay for his release from prison on compassionate grounds. A majority of the panel of five judges voted...

A five-member Criminal Appeals Court on Wednesday again rejected a request filed by jailed former Greek minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos for his release from prison. This is the fourth time that a petition requesting Tsohatzopoulos' release and a suspension of...

Former Greek Defense Ministry official Antonis Kantas, who has admitted to accepting bribes while serving as deputy head of the Ministry's armed forces procurements department, is to be released from custody because the 18-month maximum period for holding a...

An Athens court has found former Cyprus` Interior Minister Dinos Michaelides, his son Michalis and three others guilty of receiving kickbacks. The Cyprus News Agency reports that the defendants were also found guilty of money laundering in relation to the...

Greek National Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said on Monday he wants to reopen all cases dealing with armament procurements, recent and old, and would seek to bring people who cheated the Greek state of millions of euros to justice. In...

Former Cypriot Minister Dinos Michaelides, his son Michalis and Syrian arms dealer Fouad al-Zayad, involved in the German arms bribery scandal, went on trial in Greece, accused for bribery and money laundering. According to "Cyprus Mail", the Former Minister’s defense team...

The trial of former Interior Minister of Cyprus  Dinos Michaelides and his son Michalis in Greece was postponed yesterday for the third time in two months. The next hearing will be held on July 10. The trial was postponed as the defence lawyers protested that their...

A minor explosive device went off on Wednesday evening outside the northern Athens suburb residence of a former Defense Ministry official who has been convicted for a major corruption scandal, police said. The blast caused small material damage, but no...