THE Christos Mavrikis, One of the darkest and most controversial figures in the Transition was arrested for attempted bribery to his judge Supreme Court.
Went into history as the man found at the center of the scandal of politicians in the late 80’s – with a loudest hypothesis of those of Telephone spy by then Prime Minister Andrea Papandreou And now, his name came back to the forefront, as it seems that He gave a letter to Areopagite attempting to bribe him.
The complaint of the Air Force, in the letter, has already been forwarded to the Athens Public Prosecutor’s Office for criminal investigation. The prosecutor ordered an urgent preliminary investigation into the crime of criminal bribery.
The letter was reported by a specific pending case and there was a request for the intervention of the judicial officer, while leaving hint of providing financial exchanges.
As soon as the supreme judge read the content of the letter immediately, he immediately made a complaint to the authorities by delivering the letter while the proceedings for further further proceedings were initiated.
Christos Mauritius, despite retiring from the spotlight, remained in memory as the face-symbol of the dark backdrop of the Transition in one of the most polarized periods of modern Greek history. The 1989amidst the political storm that was known as ‘The dirty ’89’Mauritius was accused of heading a network of telephone surveillance.
Talks of ministers, political opponents and journalists were systematically recorded. The revelations shocked public opinion and triggered political developments, at a time when justice attempted to unravel the scandals of Koskota and the Bank of Crete.
He argued that he was acting by the tolerance of high -ranking political actors.
He was sentenced in 1998 to five years in prison for the long -running policy of politicians.
How Christos Mauritius trapped Andrea Papandreou’s phone
The name of Christos Mauritius became known in April 1993. It was the OTE employee who complained to the media that he had trapped the landline of Andreas Papandreou’s office at the behest of the General, Nikos Grillaki, Associate of former Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis.
So he could hear from the headset of his home every telephone conversation of his political opponent. The means of the time, then, described him as “National Back”.
“The trapping was done through CAFE but also through apartments we rented then. We “pulled” the line parallel to the apartments and put the tape recorders there. We had rented 4 to 5 apartments and had the phones permanent there » He had later stated in an interview he gave, adding that after the recruitment, critical talks were given at the office of Konstantinos Mitsotakis.
During investigations on a series of scandals that shocked the country in the late 1980s -including the Koskota case -it was revealed that the phones were monitored politician, businessman and journalist.
Mauritius was accused of playing an active role in the spy, operating an illegal monitoring network, which recorded conversations and the channeled to the press or in political circles.
As he himself revealed, years later in a televised interview with SKAI, “We were watching more than 100 PASOK executives. ”
According to him, the surveillance were 24 -houras a result, the recordings also concern Andrea Papandreou’s various personal issues, in addition to the politicians.
Specifically, Christos Mavrikis has been watching the prime minister’s wife’s phone for some time, Dimitra Papandreou, But without him, these conversations leak in the media.
In 2010, the two of them meet on the television air of the jungle show, with the end of it threatening it: “Do you want anything cassettes to come out in the air to understand what you were saying?”
Following the complaint of Christos Mauritius and after the Mitsotakis government has fallen in 1993, shortly thereafter follows a Research on OTE CAFE indicated by Mauritius.
Extensive technical checks were made by special sections to prove whether or not his claims apply. The findings of the Commission’s audits that confirmed the interventions was discussed in the Greek Parliament in the June 16, 1994.
According to the survey, it was found that the phones were attended, not only by Andrea Papandreou, but also Miltiadis Evert, Gerasimos Kouris, George Ralli, PASOK’s offices in Harilaou Trikoupi and Antonis Lebanese.
In June 1994 PASOK MP Costas Brakatsoulas states:
“It was found that Mr Miltiadis Evert’s phones were attended until August 1991 and his office until 1991, and the Ministry of the Presidency during the period of Minister until December 1991. of Gerasimos Kouris, until the end of April 1990 and the newspaper Avria. Papandreou, his three -digit phone, until June 1990. by George Ralli, a former prime minister, until the end of 1990.
Of the offices of PASOK on Harilaou Trikoupi Street, until December 1991. by Antonis Lebanese until September 1991. Kyriakos Griveas until December 1990, known to all of us as Deputy Director of Mr. Mitsotakis’ Political Bureau.
The revelation of the espionage scandal caused a huge wave of reactions and accusations that lasted for years.
On the one hand, it was Christos Mauritius, who accused the Mitsotakis government of giving him orders about which phones to trap Konstantinos Mitsotakis on the other, who threw responsibility entirely on him.
Mauritius was finally taken to Korydallou Prisons, as he was found guilty by the Athens Pentamel Court of Appeal for attempted extortion in a degree of felony, violation of confidential telephone conversations and illegal violence, with the prison sentence reaching five years.
Konstantinos Mitsotakis was referred, but eventually, after a decision by Andreas Papandreou himself, he never reached a special court, citing political normalcy.
The Summer of 2022 Mauritius was arrested for gun possession and quantity of hemp after an incident at a gas station in Pikermi. Specifically, according to the AuthorsMauritius quarreled with a citizen for the priority in the order of supply and as the latter later said in his lawsuit. He threatened him, found him and in the end he pulled out a gun.
In investigations done in Mauritius’ car, police discovered a taiser, a knife and a firearm. In the survey that followed at his home, another old World War II sub -pillar were found and a quantity of 40 grams of hemp, for which he was prosecuted.