Notable Cases

An Athens Criminal Court cleared a former director of Werfen Hellas of healthcare fraud charges in relation to the pricing of the company's products to healthcare organisations. The Court returned its acquittal judgment on 11.6.2025, ruling that the contested pricing was compliant with the applicable...

Two former CEOs of Hellas Gold, a subsidiary of Canadian Eldorado Gold, were cleared of environmental offences charges in relation to the company's gold mining facilities in Chalkidiki, Greece. The Three-Member Criminal Court of Thessaloniki ruled on 16.2025 that the Company's activities complied with the...

The FCA has announced the withdrawal of European arrest warrants for KP and DG, respectively the former chief executive and chief financial officer of Globo plc, a formerly AIM-listed company. In 2019 the FCA sought to extradite KP and DG from Greece to face criminal charges...

The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) dismissed the case against Ms Maria Spyraki, a long-standing member of the European Parliament, on allegations of EU fraud in relation to the management of the remuneration of her Accredited Parliamentary Assistants. The decision to dismiss the case was...

The Five Member Court of Appeal Athens returned its judgment on 22.1.2024 after a multimonth trial hearing against 11 defendants involving healthcare professionals, J&J /DePuy officers, and agents on fraud, bribery and money laundering charges in relation to the purchase of orthopedic products by Greek...

  On 11.7.2023 the Court of Appeal Athens sitting as a first instance court returned an acquittal judgment for the chair and four high-ranking officers of a leading brokerage firm on charges of market abuse under aggravating circumstances. Following an investigation by the Hellenic Capital Markets...

  In a highly publicised case Mr George Loukos, a former chair and artistic director of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Greece's biggest annual cultural event, was cleared on 20.6.2023 from financial mismanagement charges by a unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal Athens sitting as...

  On 3.5.2023 Patras Court of Appeal sitting as a first instance extradition chamber issued a decision rejecting an extradition request from the U.S. against a Romanian citizen, who had been arrested in Patras, Greece, on charges of fraud against the US, wire fraud, and money...

  After a multi-week trial the Athens Court of Appeal sitting as a first instance court handed down on 27.4.2023 an acquittal verdict for a former CEO of Hellenic Shipyards SA, a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, on charges of instigation to breach of trust under...

A former Partner of Carlyle, the global alternative asset management company, was acquitted on 8.12.2022 by the Court of Appeal Athens on charges of tax fraud in connection with  a Greek chemicals distribution company which had been acquired by Carlyle back in 2008. The Court relied...