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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-12-04
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[01] Suspect in MP bribery case to testify on Monday
[01] Suspect in MP bribery case to testify on Monday
ANA-MPA -- The public prosecutor investigating allegations of possible
MP bribery has summoned Giorgos Soukouris, who was named by Independent
Greeks MP Stavroula Xoulidou, to testify in the case as a suspect on
Monday. According to Xoulidou, he had hinted that she might receive
a sizeable amount of money if she agreed to break the party line and
participate in a vote for a new president in the present Parliament.
According to sources, the prosecutor in charge of the case considers
that evidence presented on Thursday by Independent Greeks party leader
Panos Kammenos implicates Soukouris and needs to be evaluated. Kammenos
apparently presented evidence, including a video, that seemed to indicate
the suspect had closer ties to New Democracy than he asserts.
Xoulidou testified that Soukouris had suggested that her vote for a new
Greek president might earn her two to three million euros and had also
dropped hints that the now independent MP Panagiotis Melas, who quit the
Independent Greeks party in the wake of these allegations, had accepted
the bribe.
Melas, who has filed a civil suit over the issue, has denied all the
above as slander. Soukouris has also denied Xoulidou's claims, saying
that his contacts with ND members were for issues relating to ethnic
Greeks from Albania.
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