For the case of the Lagarde list, the Prosecutor of the Judicial Council, Mr. Vasilis Pliotas, proposed the indictment of the former Minister of Finance Mr. Giorgos Papakostadinou as well as some of his relatives

Mr. Pliotas has recently replaced the Prosecutor of the Judicial Council Mr. Anastasios Kanellopoulos, who on the 30th of June stood down,relieved of his duties on grounds of having reached the age limit.

Mr. Papakonstadinou is burdened with two felony offenses (on duty disloyalty and forgery of an official document), as well as with a misdemeanor on his handling of the list of Lagarde case.

Apart from the former Minister of Finance, his cousins, Ms Helen Papakonstadinou and her husband Mr. Simeon Sikiaridis -as the original Lagarde list was strangely missing 1,222 million dollars- and Andreas Rossonis (husband of Marina, another cousin of the former Minister), are also likely to be indicted by request of Mr.Pliotas.

The relatives are confronted with the accusation of instigation to acts attributed to the former Minister of Finance.

The relatives, whose names  were allegedly erased from the Lagarde list are also apt for indictment to the Special Court, as non political participants.

The proposal of Mr. Pliotas was made to the Judicial Council, which will convene so as to deliver the relevant Ordinance.

The ordinance to be issued is irrevocable (ie not subject to any appeal) and will be indulged within ten days of its release to Mr. Papakostadinou and to the President of the Parliament.
In the case in which the ordinance refers Mr. Papakonstadinou to trial, the chairman of the Parliament is to pick through a draw, among the members of the Supreme Court and the State Council, 13 members and six alternate members so that the constitution of the Special Court is achieved.

The members of the Supreme Court will be seven and 6 more of the CoE, while the highest ranking member of the Supreme Court will exercise presidential duties.

The President of the Special Court, after receiving the list with the members that have been drawn in Parliament, must  set a court date within 60 days, along with the place of the official court meeting and the list of witnesses.

Mr. Papakonstantinou has the right not to appear in court and yet be trialed as if being present, as was the case with Andreas Papandreou in the Koskotas scandal trial in April of 1991. The former finance minister may be represented by up to three lawyers.

It should be pointed out that Mr. Papakonstantinou, after his defense plea last month, received the restrictive conditions of submitting a 30,000 euro bail and the obligation to present himself within the first half of each month at a Police Department of his area.

After his statement all relatives of the former Financial Minister-deemed participants- were released without bail.

However, Justice is holding on to the files relating to the former head of Financial Crime Department, Yannis Diotis who has been involved in the case on the grounds of multiple flash drive usb reproductions of the Lagarde list.

Why does Mr. Pliotas opt for indictment .

Reportedly, Mr. Pliotas stresses, with respect to the former FinMin, that according to evidence, the politician had deleted the names of relatives from the Lagarde list.

Furthermore, Mr. Papakonstantinou, according to the prosecutor’s office, did not order a tax audit for his relatives, an act detrimental to the Greek State.

As for Papakonstantinou’s relatives, Mr. Pliotas bases his Special Court indictment moston  on the grounds of them taking advantage of their kinship with Mr. Papakonstantinou, in order to get their names deleted from the notorious Lagarde list.