Yannos Papantoniou, his wife and his businessman friend were unanimously found innocent beyond a reasonable doubt in the weapons program case.
The court found that insufficient evidence of guilt was produced for his crime bribe nor hers infidelity, maintains doubts and therefore as it does not exist basic offensethere is no and money laundering.
“There are doubts about the basic crimes of passive bribery and infidelity (prescription), there was not enough evidence and therefore he was acquitted due to doubts about the alleged money laundering,” said the president of the court, among other things.
Papantoniou is accused of receiving a “bribe” of 2.5 million euros to advance the contract with a French company for the modernization of 6 Navy frigates.
Mr Papantoniou’s lawyer calls it a “fair decision”.