Floros heading back to prison after Friday night arrest
NOTICE – UPDATE
Εκathimerini.com, complying with the general principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Law 4624/2019, and taking into account the principles of proportionality and data accuracy, as well as the extrajudicial complaint submitted by Mr. Aristidis Floros on 23.07.2024, who provided additional details to support his request, informs its readers that, pursuant to Supreme Court of Greece Decision No. 575/2024, which adjudicated the case according to Articles 528-529 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, all individuals involved and accused in the Energa-Hellas Power case, including Mr. Aristidis Floros, have been declared innocent of the charges brought against them for the acts of embezzlement, smuggling, and money laundering committed jointly and repeatedly.
An emergency council of appeals court judges in the Evia town of Halkida ordered the arrest late on Friday night of jailed embezzler Aristides Floros after a summons from a Supreme Court prosecutor in Athens calling for a complete re-examination of the medical documentation the convict submitted to secure his release.
Floros was arrested late Friday at his home in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada.
He had been released from Halkida Prison last week after presenting judicial authorities with medical evidence that he suffered a disability.
Floros’s release request had been examined by a deputy prosecutor at the Supreme Court after the move caused a public outcry and its claims that Floros suffered from a 67 percent disability (right at the limit that would allow his release under the law) was found to be ambiguous and unsubstantiated. An order for a complete re-examination was issued on Friday morning, prompting the emergency council of judges.
Later on Friday, meanwhile, a doctor whose signature appears on one of the certificates explaining why Floros allegedly suffered from seizures claimed that it had been forged.
