{"id":1223,"date":"2013-04-22T17:57:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ankakh.am\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2013-04-22T17:57:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:57:14","slug":"greek-ex-minister-on-trial-for-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Greek ex-minister on trial for money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/4\u0540\u0578\u0582\u0576\u0561\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576\u056b-\u0576\u0561\u056d\u056f\u056b\u0576-\u0576\u0561\u056d\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0580\u0568-\u0574\u0565\u0572\u0561\u0564\u0580\u057e\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u0567-\u0583\u0578\u0572\u0565\u0580\u056b-\u056c\u057e\u0561\u0581\u0574\u0561\u0576-\u0574\u0565\u057b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1221\" alt=\"4\u0540\u0578\u0582\u0576\u0561\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576\u056b \u0576\u0561\u056d\u056f\u056b\u0576 \u0576\u0561\u056d\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0580\u0568 \u0574\u0565\u0572\u0561\u0564\u0580\u057e\u0578\u0582\u0574 \u0567 \u0583\u0578\u0572\u0565\u0580\u056b \u056c\u057e\u0561\u0581\u0574\u0561\u0576 \u0574\u0565\u057b\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/4\u0540\u0578\u0582\u0576\u0561\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576\u056b-\u0576\u0561\u056d\u056f\u056b\u0576-\u0576\u0561\u056d\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0580\u0568-\u0574\u0565\u0572\u0561\u0564\u0580\u057e\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u0567-\u0583\u0578\u0572\u0565\u0580\u056b-\u056c\u057e\u0561\u0581\u0574\u0561\u0576-\u0574\u0565\u057b.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>A prominent Greek ex-minister went on trial in Athens on Monday on charges of money laundering linked to controversial arms deals during his years in power.<\/p>\n<p>Facing a sentence of up to 20 years, 73-year-old Akis Tsochatzopoulos is accused of pocketing kickbacks on state contracts to buy a Russian-made anti-missile system and German submarines during his stint as defence minister from 1996 to 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek state ended up paying surcharges of millions of euros.<\/p>\n<p>Tsochatzopoulos, a founding member of the socialist Pasok party, denies the accusations against him.<\/p>\n<p>Other than Tsochatzopoulos, 18 more people, including his current wife, his German ex-wife and his daughter, are accused of complicity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent Greek ex-minister went on trial in Athens on Monday on charges of money&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-greek","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}