1.Georgios Koskotas
Georgios Koskotas, who served as President of the Bank of Crete and Olympiacos, was accused of embezzling 32 billion drachmas from the Bank of Crete. In his trial, which took place in the Female Prison of Korydallos and lasted almost 2 years, the court recognized the mitigating circumstance of sincere remorse and he was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment, escaping a life sentence already by a court ruling at first instance.

2.Kyriakos Apeiranthitis
Kyriakos Apeiranthitis, was accused of serial murder, rape and arson (Varkiza, 1989), was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment, after the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal recognized the mitigating circumstance of sincere remorse.

3.Panagiotis Vlastos
Panagiotis Vlastos, together with his later murdered brother Kostas, were condemned for the murder of Makis Nastoulis (Athens, 1998), in excess of the limits of the defense, escaping a life sentence already by a court ruling at first instance.

4.Iosif Vayonis
Industrialist Iosif Vayonis was charged with the murder with a dagger of his girlfriend Nelly Pischou The court recognized mitigating circumstances in the proceedings at first instance and he was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment (Chalkida, 1996), a sentence that was reduced to 15 years in the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of Athens.

5.Christos Voulgarakis
Christos Voulgarakis was charged with the murder of his 12-year-old daughter (Pelasgia, Fthiotis, 1999). In the proceedings at first instance in the Mixed Jury Court of Karpenisi, the court recognized the mitigating factor i.e. the former honorable life and he was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment.

6.George Skiadopoulos
Merchant Navy Lieutenant George Skiadopoulos was accused of strangling and then cutting off the head of his girlfriend, internationally renowned model Julie Scully (Kavala, 1999). In the proceedings at first instance Mixed Jury Court of Drama) he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but at the appeal proceedings (Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of Thrace) the court recognized the mitigating factor i.e. the former honorable life and was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment.

7.Georgios Petsos
The former Minister of Public Order under the government of Andreas Papandreou, Georgios Petsos, was the victim of an attempted assassination by 17th November (Psychiko, 1989). Sakis Kechagioglou was constituted as civil party in the proceedings at first instance of the former minister in the Three- Member Court of Appeal for Felonies of Athens, which was held at the Female Prison of Korydallos.

8.Tempi accident
Sakis Kechagioglou from the very first moment joined the proceedings as civil party for the parents and relatives of the 21 dead and 35 injured students from the Senior High School in Makrochori, Imathia, when the tragic road accident occurred in Tempi, Thessaly (2003). The decisions of the Mixed Jury Court of Volos and the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of Larissa vindicated the memory of the victims, condemning those responsible to long prison sentences, for the first time in Greek judicial history in a road accident case.

9.Theo Theodorides
Theo Theodoridis, an internationally renowned model, was accused of importing 5 kilos of cocaine (Halkidiki, 2008). The Three- Member Court of Appeal for Felonies of Thessaloniki already in the proceedings at first instance found him guilty of being a drug addict, sentencing him to 18 years’ imprisonment, a sentence that led to his release from prison 6 years after his arrest.

10.Alket Rizai – Soula Mitropia
The most notorious prisoner in Greece and Albania, who escaped twice by helicopter with Vassilis Paleokosta from Korydallos Prison, was convicted of a series of criminal offences connected to these escapes and was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment. For exactly the same crimes (Plunder, disturbing transport security, hijacking, possession of explosives, criminal organisation, etc.), his girlfriend Soula Mitropia was sentenced to prison and was released from prison within a short period.

11.Abduction of Pericles Panagopoulos
The famous shipowner Pericles Panagopoulos was abducted outside his house (Kavouri, 2009) and 28.5 million euros were paid for his release. His kidnappers, Apostolos Petrakis and Charalampos Moustakas, entrusted their defense (in the proceedings at first instance and in the Five-Member Court of Appeal, respectively) to Sakis Kechagioglou and were released from prison before the tria at the first instance, in respect of the charges against them.

12.Anastasios Berdesis
The famous boxer of the National and Olympic team, Tasos Berdesis, was charged with attempted murder (Patras, 2007). The case was referred to the Mixed Jury Court of Messolonghi and he was acquitted unanimously. He was subsequently charged with aiding and abetting a criminal, and was also acquitted unanimously by the Three- Member Magistrates’ Court of Athens.

13.Alexis Fragos
Alexis Fragos was charged with the murder of two people and the attempted murder of one, whom he considered responsible for the murder of his brother. The case was heard in the Mixed Jury Court (Egio, 2014) and the court recognized the mitigating circumstance of the victims’ disruptive behaviour, with the consequence that the life sentence was ‘reduced’ and he was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment, already by a court ruling at first instance.

14.Siemens
After the indictment was read in the high-publicity Siemens case, the relevant investigating officer detained Salina, daughter of Christos Karavelas, a top executive of Siemens Hellas. The remand had a negative impact on public opinion and in the legal world of the country. Salina Karavela entrusted her defense to Sakis Kechagioglou, who lodged an appeal before the Council of Misdemeanors of Athens, which was upheld, resulting in her release a month and a half after she was considered a pre-trial detainee. Subsequently, by a writ of the Appeals Council in Athens, she was irrevocably exonerated.

15.Vatopaidi
The former managing director of the Public Real Estate Company (KED), Konstantinos Gkratzios, was accused for the case of real estate exchange between the State and the Vatopaidi Monastery on Mount Athos. After his statement before the Special Investigating Officer with Sakis Kechagioglou as his lawyer, he was released subject to restrictions, while other defendants in the same case were temporarily detained. The Athens Court of Appeal for Felonies unanimously agreed that he was innocent.

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In July 2014, Sakis Kechagioglou took up the defense of the relatives of the shipowner Efthymis Giannousakis who were accused of trafficking two tons of heroin. The Thee- Member Court of Appeal for Felonies of Piraeus found both his wife, her mother and the housekeeper not guilty.

17.C.R. had been accused of ordering the murder of the Albanian national N.E. The Mixed Jury Court of Athens, sentenced him to life imprisonment for instigation to murder. In 2016 he was acquitted by the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of Athens.

18.M.S. was accused of trafficking 300 kg of hashish. In 2017, the Three- Member Court of Appeal for Felonies of Athens imposed a total sentence of 11 years.

19.N.H. was accused of forming a criminal organization and trafficking 40 kilos of hydroponic cannabis (skunk). In the proceeding at first instance, the Thee-Member Court of Appeal of Athens sentenced him to life imprisonment plus 6 years. The convicted person remained in prison for 5 years until 2020, when the Five-Member Court of Appeal for Felonies of Athens unanimously declared him innocent of both the drug trafficking and for the criminal organization charges.

20.N.N., was accused of criminal organization and trafficking of cocaine, weighing a total of 100 kilos, a quantity found in a container of bananas, he was released without any restrictive condition, by a unanimous decision of the investigating officer and the public prosecutor, who were convinced that the accused had no connection with the loading of the cargo abroad and no legal ownership over it at any point of its voyage to the port of Thessaloniki.

21.In 2019, F.U. and V.P. were acquitted by the Three- Member Court of Appeal of Athens. The two foreigners had been accused of a serious narcotics offence and had been temporarily detained for 18 months. Specifically, they were accused of buying and importing from the Netherlands 3 tons of the prohibited substance BMK (precursor for the manufacture of amphetamine and methamphetamine), with which it would be possible to manufacture 3,000,000 amphetamine tablets of 20mg each, with an expected benefit of approximately 1.5 billion euros.

22.Eirini Melissaropoulou was charged with possession and importation into China of 2.6 kilograms of cocaine in November 2017, with an expected sentence, if found guilty, of 26-30 years. The defendant was detained for 17 months in China until she was unanimously found not guilty by the Hong Kong High Court.

23.On 20 May 2020, I.P. was attacked with sulphuric acid outside her workplace. The accused E.K. confessed before police authorities and entrusted her defense to Sakis Kechagioglou. The case is pending before the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal, where the accused will be tried, in appeal proceedings, for the crime of attempted murder.

24.On 9 January 2012, were stolen from the halls of the National Gallery the “Female Head”, with artwork number 1357, a reference by Picasso to his muse Dora Maar, painted in 1939 (a gift by the artist to the Greek people for their resistance to the Occupation), the artwork “Mill” (1905), from the first period of the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, and a drawing of an early seventeenth-century religious depiction attributed to the Italian Guglielmo Caccia (Moncalvo). The theft was confessed by G.S., a forty-nine-year-old painter by trade, who pointed out to the police where the stolen works of art were located. Sakis Kechagioglou took up his defense, while the case is pending before the Investigating officer of Athens.