Damianos Athanasiou
On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, the trial concerning the high-profile case of the management of ANEK Kalymnos began before the Three-Member Court of Appeals for Felonies of the Dodecanese, and was adjourned until July 1, 2025.
The court accepted a relevant objection and excluded the declaration of civil party support filed by shareholders of the company, while it rejected a similar request for the exclusion of the company itself.
As a reminder, the Misdemeanor Judicial Council of Kos referred four individuals to the Three-Member Court of Appeals for Felonies of the Dodecanese.
One of them is accused of having illegally appropriated, repeatedly, property of significant value—specifically more than €120,000—between June 16, 2010, and July 7, 2011. The amount had come into his possession in his capacity as administrator of third-party property.
More specifically, on September 7, 2005, he was hired by the company “ANE Kalymnos S.A.,” based in Kalymnos, as the central shipping agent. He was entrusted with issuing tickets for all the company’s vessels—both through his agency and at the port’s ticket office. He was also responsible for collecting payments from clients, managing the collected funds, and remitting the remaining amount (after deducting a 10% commission on the net fare) to the company weekly.
In this capacity, he allegedly misappropriated and absorbed into his own assets a total amount of €409,335.24.
Additionally, in order to obstruct detection during financial audits, he allegedly, at undetermined times from October 2010 onward, delayed returning the owed amounts, issued checks that bounced, or endorsed customer or company checks that were also dishonored or were stolen, forged, or tampered with—seeking to prevent the embezzlement from being discovered and to avoid termination of cooperation or legal action by the ANEK board of directors.
Two additional defendants are accused of repeatedly assisting the principal accused with joint intent in committing the felony of embezzlement by a trustee, involving an amount over €120,000. Specifically, during the stated period and while employed by the company, they allegedly failed to take the necessary actions.
The fourth defendant, who served as chairman of the board of ANEK S.A. from January 1, 2009, to June 2, 2011, is accused of causing financial damage to the company (a private legal entity) through mismanagement. The damage also exceeds €120,000, amounting to a total of €409,335.24.
He is specifically accused of concealing from the other board members the agent’s serious financial liabilities and the delayed remittance of ticket revenues that the agent had unlawfully withheld.
Source: www.dimokratiki.gr
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