Christos Mylonopoulos resigned from the five-member investigative team appointed by the Council of Ministers, to investigate the findings of the Independent Anti-Corruption Authority regarding the “Mafia State.” Following the intense backlash and the political “storm” that erupted over a conflict of interest, the Professor Emeritus of Criminal Law at the University of Athens submitted his resignation from the investigative team. It should be noted that Mr. Mylonopoulos himself confirmed the submission of his resignation to Alpha.

It should be recalled that Christos Mylonopoulos found himself at the center of a political controversy, as he had served as Michael Zolotas’s defense attorney in response to the Cypriot authorities’ request for his extradition from Greece, as part of the investigation into the Focus case.

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The conflict of interest involving Dimitris Tsolakidis, a criminal defense attorney and member of the Criminal Justice Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association. He was one of the officials at the Anti-Corruption Authority who investigated financial contributions to DISY through “golden passports.”

When asked earlier, however, Deputy Government Spokesperson Yiannis Antoniou, when asked whether Mr. Mylonopoulos’s conflict of interest should have been disclosed, replied that “it could have been done, that he would be excluded from this part.”

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Letympiotis confirms: The government was aware of Mylonopoulos’s conflict of interest