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| Volume 7 Number 10 - Tuesday, March 8th, 2005 |
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Transfer of long-serving justices ordered for sake of impartiality The mass transfer of judges who have been serving for long periods in four major Greek cities, as requested by the head of the Supreme Court yesterday, was the latest step in the fight against corruption in the judiciary. Giorgos Kapos said that judges who had been presiding in courts for a considerable, but unspecified, length of time, in Thessaloniki, Patras, Larissa and Iraklion, would be soon be receiving notice. On Tuesday, he asked that 12 Piraeus judges be transferred. Kapos said he was instigating the transfers so that doubts about the judges’ “objectivity and impartiality” would not be raised. Meanwhile, on the Church side of the trial-fixing and corruption scandal, the police yesterday forwarded evidence from the investigation of an Athens apartment used by fugitive drug smuggler Apostolos Vavilis, an alleged protege of Archbishop Christodoulos. The file was given to public prosecutor Eleni Sotiropoulou, who is also probing other activities involving Vavilis, such as his trip to Jerusalem in 2001 for the election of Patriarch Irenaios. The evidence is likely to lead to three people being charged within the next few days with harboring a fugitive, sources said. Deputy Foreign Minister Panayiotis Skandalakis met with Patriarch Irenaios yesterday to pledge the government’s support for the Patriarchate and to discuss the latest developments in the Church scandal. However, Irenaios told Skandalakis that he should know more since the problem originated in Athens. Meanwhile, the Church’s ruling body, the Holy Synod, appeared satisfied with the answers by Dionysios, Bishop of Chios, to claims he stashed away some $17 million in secret US bank accounts. He denied having any accounts abroad.
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