Boring economic offenses involving the management of the “Civote of the World” fund give the opinion of the Council of Defects of Athens to the father Antonios, the elder Statia Georgantis and another person, who was an employee in the NGO, during the period when the first two defendants were at her “penance”.
On the advice of the three defendants, they are referred to the court's stand in order to be tried for criminal offences continuous infidelity, moral insinuation in infidelity, complicity in infidelity, misappropriation of an object that has been entrusted to the culprit because of his capacity as administrator of foreign property continuously, moral insurgency in the above act and also laundering of black money.
In particular, the members of the court board in the opinion they issued refer - according to information - to incidents of concealment and embezzlement of the NGO's assets by the sanctuary and elders during the period when the investigations of the Economic Police were ongoing, the NGOs were placed in a new administration and authorities were gathering aggravating evidence against them in the context of investigations carried out.
According to the same information referral says that Father Antony is the person who was behind every action of his co-defendant and wife Stamatia Georgantis, who at the moment was president of the Board of Directors of the “Kivotos of the World”. The priest is reportedly "with persuasion and loadiness" convinced the elder to proceed with actions which, as it is reported, have knowingly caused damage to the NGO's property, in violation of the rules of diligent management.
As the information reports at the heart of Case-law A number of actions have, according to the judicial authorities, affected NGOs. These include property completion work allegedly owned by Father Antony himself, which was paid by the funds of the "Civator of the World", as well as the hire of an employee to maintain the property in question, with his salary also covered by NGO accounts.
Also, the multi-page judicial document records money payments to the NGO's co-rapporteur and employee, who allegedly did not provide services of corresponding economic value. The total amount of these operations is estimated to be around EUR 200,000.
Furthermore, in the same opinion, reference is made to the ownership of approximately EUR 100,000, which had come to the management of the then responsible 'Civator of the World', Stopper Georgantis. This money came from, as the judges allegedly accepted, from private donations. However, they were used to cover the subsistence costs of the defendants and members of their families, in order not to spend corresponding amounts of other income. The same amount appears to be related to real estate purchases, to which, according to court estimates, approximately 100,000 euros were reportedly directed.
In addition, reference is made to bank safe The “Kivotus of the World” in Athens, from which the elder reportedly removed cash and valuables. These items were placed, according to the same references, in a bag and paper bag, at Father Anthony’s suggestion.
As noted, valuables were never delivered to the organization's new temporary administration, and no more were attributed. objects of a total value of approximately EUR 305,000. According to the decree, these items were allegedly hidden in a vault in an adjacent apartment of the same building where the two defendants were then staying and in a place where only the elder had access.
The information indicates that the defendant has cleared the bank box on the occasion of reports on the investigated illegal activities of her husband. Cash from the same sources amounts to hundreds of thousands of euros, while valuables include gold pounds of England and Turkey.
The court board also decided to maintain the validity of the restrictive term of the ban on leaving the country imposed on Father Anthony and the elder. Finally, it should be noted that the publication of the referral is becoming known while in progress other trial charged with Father Anthony. The This trial shall be held in closed session. and it concerns complaints made against the priest about the abuse of two young boys, guests in the "Civil of the World".