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‘No doubt’ over hospital bribe, says prosecutor

‘No doubt’ over hospital bribe, says prosecutor

An Athens court is due to decide next month whether to convict the former director of the Aglaia Kyriakou Children’s Hospital after a prosecutor recommended Tuesday that he be found guilty of blackmail and bribery.

The former hospital executive, Haris Tombouloglou, is accused of demanding a 25,000-euro bribe from a marketing firm that won a European Union-funded contract to help put together an awareness campaign about child obesity.

Tombouloglou allegedly threatened to declare the tender void if he did not receive the under-the-table payment.

The prosecutor said there was “no doubt” about Tombolouglou’s guilt.

Upon his arrest on Christmas Eve in 2013, the suspect claimed that the money in question had been a “gift” for the hospital.

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