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At the age of eight, everyone was convicted of the former mayor of Thessaloniki, Vasilis Papageorgopoulos and his current secretary general of the municipality of Michalis Lemousias, who were convicted of money laundering (money laundering), an act related to the misappropriation of "mammoths" by the funds of the central municipality
The three members Court of Appeal of Thessaloniki e, the wharf where they were sitting, the accused acknowledged the extenuating circumstances of the unfolding and the decision of the appeal has suspensive effect on the execution of the sentence. After appealing the decision, they were released from the trial by the Court of Appeal.
According to the court verdict, the two former close badociates legalized the money for the embezzlement of the 17.9 million euros hired by the former civil servant, Panayiotis Saxonis. The amount they "washed", as it appears from the judges' decision, is close to 14.2 million euros. And the act attributed to them is with the aggravating circumstance of the law on the abusers of public funds.
In his apologies, V. Papageorgopoulos described the charges against him as unjust, which he refused. He stated that he had acquired no badets, that he had not even received one euro of municipal funds and that he had been accused of unfounded complaints of the part of the sentenced official that he did not even know
. his co-accused, former secretary general of the municipality, said that he was innocent, he targeted Saxon, saying that he did everything. "How can I understand my action when the municipality officials did not understand it?"
It should be noted that in the main case of embezzlement, Arios Pagos took the decision of the Thessaloniki Court of Appeal consisting of five members. secondly, V. Papageorgopoulos and M. Lemousia, sentenced to 12 and 13 years 'imprisonment respectively, as was the case for the former municipal official sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.
Updated: Friday, July 6, 2018, 17:29
