



There are dozens of individuals under suspect of participating in the Siemens bribes-for-contracts scandal.

The trial has been indefinitely postponed due to missing translations of case-related documents into the German and French languages, after defendants’ lawyers pointed out that according to national law the charge sheet must be in their clients native languages.

There are 13 native German defendants and one French-Swiss.

The 4,500 plus paged charge sheet for the case accumulated after around 10 years of investigation into claims that the Siemens’ Greek branch bribed Greek politicians and public officials to secure state contracts.

It was reported by ekathimerini.com that sources at the Athens Appeals Court said that the judicial authorities had tried to pressure the state’s translation to provide these documents in both German and French, but that the Justice Ministry was unable to find the money to pay the 10,000 euros needed to complete the translations.



