Eirini Tziva

A Piraeus prosecutor has brought charges of drug trafficking and financing an illegal enterprise against the shipowner and businessman Vangelis Marinakis in connection with the Noor 1 heroin smuggling case.

The probe by judicial authorities into allegations by a convicted drug smuggler that Defense Minister Panos Kammenos tried to pressure him into testifying against prominent businessman Vangelis Marinakis, has been shelved.