Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou, a extinct MEP for the ruling Unique Democracy celebration, became as soon as convicted on Monday of leaking the email addresses of Greek expatriates at some point of the speed-up to the 2024 European Parliament elections.
“This day’s decision by the major-instance three-prefer prison court … marks a lawful day for the guideline of law in Greece,” Vasilis Sotiropoulos, one of three lawyers who represented 90 Greeks in a single other country who had been victims of the leak, wrote on Fb.
“This day’s court decision would no longer absorb an affect on the presumption of innocence of the defendants, which applies till their eventual irrevocable conviction,” he added.
The Athens Three-Member Misdemeanour Courtroom on Monday declared Asimakopoulou responsible firstly instance, moreover to the extinct Secretary Traditional of the Ministry of the Interior, Michalis Stavrianoudakis, of violating official secrecy moreover to private recordsdata. Asimakopoulou became as soon as sentenced to 20 months in penal complex and Stavrianoudakis to 18 months.
Menios Koromilas, then organisational secretary of Local Authorities and Crisis Administration of the Unique Democracy celebration, and Nikos Theodoropoulos the then celebration official for the diaspora, had been moreover found responsible of violating private recordsdata and sentenced to 12 and eight months in penal complex respectively.
The court suspended their sentences for three years attributable to their outdated comely existence.
Greek expatriates posted on social media in March 2024 they’d received an advertising and marketing email from Asimakopoulou, pronouncing the fabric became as soon as despatched to email addresses they had out of date to register on the in a international country voter lists for the Greek frequent elections in 2023, mainly lists held by the Ministry of the Interior.
The Greek Knowledge Security Authority, DPA, after investigating the case, imposed a sexy of 400,000 euros on the Ministry of the Interior and 40,000 euros on Asimakopoulou. The Council of Pronounce annulled the sexy imposed on the ministry, on the opposite hand, pointing out that the DPA’s decision became as soon as now no longer sufficiently justified.
The case is anticipated to proceed on the Courtroom of Appeal.