Police officers accused of the deficit of more than 700,000 in Thessaloniki acquitted

All constabulary officers accused of a fiscal shortfall, much than 700,000 euros, revealed successful constabulary departments of Thessaloniki, aft the termination successful October 2022 of their colleague, who was successful complaint of fiscal affairs astatine the Security Service.

A full of 7 constabulary officers, the bulk of them officers (male and female), were indicted successful the case. Six of them were acquitted by a determination of the Thessaloniki Trial Court for the offences of breach of work and mendacious certification (both of which were committed repeatedly), portion the seventh, who had a supervisory role, was acquitted astatine an earlier clip by a verdict of the competent Judicial Council for complicity by omission successful embezzlement against the Greek State, repeatedly (to the grade of a felony).

The engagement of the supra came to airy pursuing a absorption audit, with the shortage relating to the General Financial Management of the Thessaloniki Security Directorate. It acrophobic wealth intended for bonzer authoritative expenses, specified arsenic question and question expenses of constabulary personnel. For much than 4 years the termination was the head of this service, portion the wealth of the currency shortage seems to person ended up successful betting activities, arsenic it emerged from the preliminary probe conducted by the Sub-Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Security Corps of Northern Greece.

The 7 persons progressive were administrators and supervisors of assorted ELAS directorates successful Thessaloniki, while, according to the indictment, they inadvertently allocated fiscal sums to the termination victim, facilitating him successful covering the needs of his fund.

Those who were tried successful the Plenary Court claimed that they had nary cognition of their colleague’s mismanagement and that they themselves were misled, portion for the amounts they allocated to him, bypassing the procedures provided for, they claimed that they acted successful bid to facilitate him successful covering contiguous work needs, successful the discourse of collegial solidarity and bully faith. “We did not mean to harm the service, we did not cognize him and we did not instrumentality a azygous euro,” they said, among different things, successful their apologies, stressing that they had not received immoderate grooming successful fiscal management.

“They gave the wealth successful the content that it was for authoritative needs. The shortage was not owed to them; they were besides misled,” the authoritative of the tribunal said successful her motion, asking for their acquittal.

It was reported that successful the people of the probe into the deficit, imputations were made against the persons involved, with the amounts varying depending connected the case. They person approached the applicable Courts for the removal of the imputations against them.