Appeals Court to decide whether to summon Simitis to testify in Tsohatzopoulos' case

The Criminal Appeals Court is expected to decide whether or not it will summon former PASOK prime minister Costas Simitis and the members of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence (KYSEA) in 1998-1999 to testify in the trial of former Defence Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos.

The prosecution magistrate recommended that KYSEA members who approved the procurement of submarines and TOR-M1 by the Defence ministry should be called to testify.

According to her recommendation, those persons include apart from Simitis, PASOK president Evangelos Venizelos and former minister Yiannos Papantoniou and Vasso Papandreou (and hopefully even George Papandreou).