The court agreed to a final postponement in the case of former volunteerism commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki on Friday, after being assured by the defence and prosecution that efforts were being made to shorten the length of the trial.
The hearing has been postponed till February 18 at 10am, when the defendant’s new lawyer Thanasis Korfiotis will be presenting his side.
Yiannaki is facing eight charges for forgery and circulating forged documents.
The case came to light in 2021, when then auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides wrote to the police chief after an investigation found out that the English translation of Yiannakis’ secondary school diploma had been tampered with.
For example, for modern Greek, the diploma reads ‘thirteen’ but the number next to it has been changed to 19.
Under the subject ‘English’, it was also written out as ‘Thirteen’ but the number next to it said ‘19’. In both instances, it appears the 3 in the 13 had been crudely changed to a 9.
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