Will appeal to overturn the decision
The owner of the DM website was found guilty of attempting to blackmail the New Democracy Mountain Zetta Makri. The journalist is expected to appeal on the decision. His lawyers asked the sentence to take into account the court the prior honest life and the fact that he is the father of an infant. The mitigating of the earlier honest life was rejected And the prosecutor proposed a two -year and 2000 -euro penalty, while the president announced a two -year penalty and a fine of 5000 euros, converted to 10 euros daily, with the appeal having a suspensive force.
The prosecutor earlier, among other things, stressed that the allegations of the Ensperson that there were publications with a negative tone against her from the fall of 2024 were confirmed, as confirmed by messages and pressure on financial support. The prosecutor referred to negative publications with the negative complexion and considered that the accused’s claim that the reports are commentary texts of commentary content. Specific reference was made to their contacts for advertising the MP with 15,000 euros requested by the accused in order to stop the negative comments, they reported the gegonota.news.
She ruled in her speech that the act of blackmail was based on the Criminal Code. For the invoice issued by the defendant in Zeta Makri for the 5,000 euros in the transaction time, the prosecutor ruled that it was not a lawful trading product and was issued in order for the defendant to give legitimacy. The prosecutor ruled that the invoice did not respond to an existing contract regardless of whether it was tax law and was cut when the defendant saw the police officer or when he realized that the Ekilona had strange behavior. He also said that the defendant’s claim was set up against him in order to exclude him from his opponent in the parliamentary elections in the ND ballot is a personal unproven assessment.
“In conclusion, step by step it turns out that the act of extortion is being carried out. She accepts the money while knowing that she is her own (Zeta Makri). With these facts, the proposal is condemning and I propose his guilt for the distinguished form of extortion, “the prosecutor concluded.