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As readers of these pages are aware, Andreas Georgiou is still fighting for justice in the Greek republic.  This year, the battle around a conviction for slander is coming to a head.   On July 28th, the plaintiff in the slander case demanded that the penalties for this conviction be applied immediately, before Andreas’ appeal can…

On July 7th, Andreas submitted an appeal to the Greek Supreme Court to annul the slander judgment. Two weeks later, the plaintiff in the slander case, Nikolaos Stroblos, presented Andreas with a demand for immediate “obligatory execution” of the original slander judgment.  This demand requires Andreas to pay Stroblos  18,443 euro immediately, and publish a…

We are very sorry to report that Andreas appeal of his “simple slander” conviction has been rejected by the Appeals Court.  Andreas intends to take the case to the Greek Supreme Court, since there were several striking contradictions and problems in the written judgment. To remind you of this case, it is a slander case…

Article 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted in 1950, entitles an accused “to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law.”  The Andreas Georgiou saga stretches the term “reasonable” to its limits.  The hearing date for…

The judicial hearing of Andreas’ appeal of the slander trial, which was scheduled for May of this year, was postponed at the plaintiff’s request to January 16, 2020.  Part of what characterizes this saga is the repeated delays and postponements to virtually every judicial process. But one interesting recent development is a truly comprehensive and…

At last, Andreas has been irreversibly acquitted on the primary charge of falsifying the deficit and causing damage to the Greek economy.  The Chief Prosecutor has not asked for an annulment (this time).  This is not the end of the saga, however, since there is still a significant open legal case, and one irreversible conviction…

We have some good good news: Andreas has been acquitted, for the third time, by the Greek Council of Appeals on the charge of falsifying the 2009 budget data and causing Greece damage of 171 billion euro. Moreover, analysts at the Greek newspaper Kathimerini suggest that it will be difficult to open the case again,…

Six major statistical organizations join to issue a commendation for Andreas At a satellite meeting for the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, several statistical organizations joined together to issue a commendation to Andreas “to acknowledge Andreas Georgiou’s upholding of the highest professional standards…

llustrating the high stakes inherent in the resolution of the Georgiou case, there were key announcements about it in the days surrounding the decisions on the last tranche of Greek bailout funding for Greece (under the European Stability Mechanism). The International Association for Official Statistics issued what they termed an “unprecedented public statement”, signed by 80…

Our blog pages below begin to chronicle events starting in May of 2018.  For information about the preceeding period, this article by Tony Barber at the Independent provides a short summary of the saga, while also relating it to current events in the UK and USA.  For more comprehensive information dating back to 2011, see The…