National Defence Minister Panos Kammenos told Parliament’s president on Friday he is relinquishing his ministerial immunity in order to be tried at a regular court over the case of a sale of surplus armaments to Saudi Arabia.
The case file was forwarded by the anti-corruption prosecutor to Parliament on Tuesday for review on whether the minister is liable for breach of fate.
In a letter to Parliament president Nikos Voutsis, Kammenos refuted any charges against him. “As I have already said to the anti-corruption prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki (…), and despite the fact there is no charge for any crime, I declare to you that I relinquish any immunity provided to me by article 86 of the Greek constitution as minister and I ask that the case file return to the regular courts so that I may testify as a plain citizen and contribute to the full resolution of the case, without any delay.”
