Disgraced former defense minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos is being released from prison due to health reasons, following a relevant decision by a five-justice appellate court in Athens.
The court accepted a motion to suspend the former PASOK party minister's sentence due to serious health reasons.
Tsohatzopoulos' convictions and 19-year sentence on money laundering charges, stemming from the purchase by Greece of German-designed submarines and a Russian anti-aircraft system in the 1990s, was upheld last October, with an appeals court merely shaving off a year off the first instance sentence.
