News
June 2023
• Irini Tsagaraki, “Evaluation of EPPO in its first two years of operation” (Nova Criminalia 18/2023, p. 6) [in Greek]
May 2023
• Irini Tsagaraki, participated as a speaker in a conference on “Current challenges for Criminal Law” held by the University Neapolis Pafos on 26.05.2023-27.05.2023 in Cyprus (Contribution: “EU Directives on Suspects’ and Defendants’ Procedural Rights – Implementation in Criminal Proceeding in Greece”).
March 2023
• The Three Member Criminal Court for Serious Offences of Athens clears Members of the Board of Directors of a Greek organization from charges of breach of trust.
February 2023
• Irini Tsagaraki started teaching “European Banking Law”/Distance Learning English Program – Master (LLM) in International and European Business Law at Neapolis University Pafos.
January 2023
• On 30.01.2023 Irini Tsagaraki was awarded the Konstantinos Tsirimokos Prize by the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association for “her capacity and ethics by criminal law practice and her contribution to criminal law”.
October 2022
• Irini Tsagaraki participated as a main speaker on the topics of “Crimes committed by state officials: significant issues of evidence” and “Criminal Proceedings (Preliminary Investigation, Witnesses, Expert Assessment, Autopsy, Document Seizure)” during an educational program on “General Penal Law-Criminal Proceedings: The Greek Penal Code and the Greek Criminal Proceedings Code as supervising tools” (held by the “National Transparency Authority” on 12.10.2022).
• Irini Tsagaraki participated as a speaker in a seminar on “Financial Crime” held by “Just In Case” on 01.10.2022 (Contribution: “Modern issues of breach of trust”).
September 2022
• Irini Tsasaraki started teaching “Internal Market Law”/Distance Learning English Program – Master (LLM) in International and European Business Law at Neapolis University Pafos.
July 2022
• The Greek Supreme Court (“Areopag”) accepted the request for revision filed by two defendants convicted of false statement and instigation to false statement and dropped all charges against them on the grounds of the statute of limitations (Court Decision Nr. 1177/2022).
February 2022
• The Three Member Criminal Court for Serious Offences of Western Greece clears former company manager from charges of breach of trust and tax offences.
• Irini Tsagaraki started teaching “European Criminal Law”/Master (MA) in Financial Crime and Criminal Justice at Neapolis University Pafos.
December 2021
• Greek Supreme Court (“Areopag”) accepted the request for revision filed by two defendants whose request for postponement of the hearing was falsely dismissed (Court Decision Nr. 931/2021, published in Poinika Chronika 2021, 584 f.).
October 2021
• Greek One Member Criminal Court for Serious Offences of Athens releases an English defendant from prison acknowledging his addiction to illegal substances.
July 2021
• Irini Tsagaraki, “Jurisdiction on Art. 237 Code of Criminal Proceedings regarding the translation of essential documents in criminal proceedings” (Nova Criminalia 13/2021, p. 6).
March 2021
• Irini Tsagaraki participated as a guest speaker in the webinar for trainee lawyers that took place in the Athens Bar Association on March 10th, 2021. You can watch her lecture on “Amendment to the Greek Penal Code on the mitigating circumstances” here: https://youtu.be/jEI3Un9shBE?t=10728
February 2021
• Irini Tsagaraki started teaching “Criminal Capital Market Law”/Master (MA) in Financial Crime and Criminal Justice at Neapolis University Pafos
• Irini Tsagaraki started teaching “Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity”/Master (MA) in Financial Crime and Criminal Justice at Neapolis University Pafos
November 2020
• The One Member Criminal Court for Misdemeanors of Athens clears the Managing Director of a Greek company from charges of work injury.
October 2020
• Irini Tsagaraki started teaching “Special Topics on Police and Judicial Cooperation in the European Union”/MSc in European Politics and Governance at Neapolis University Pafos
• Irini Tsagaraki started teaching “Internal Market Law”/LLM in International and European Business Law at Neapolis University Pafos
July 2020
• The Three Member Criminal Court for Serious Offences of Athens clears former bank accountant from charges of embezzlement and forgery.
April 2020
• Irini Tsagaraki, “The mitigating circumstance of the unreasonable duration of criminal proceedings without fault of the accused person under Article 84 § 3 of the Greek Penal Code” (Nova Criminalia 9/2020, p. 6)
Publications
Books
• Tsagkaraki, Eirini, “Die Bildung der sog. “schwarzen Kassen” als strafbare Untreue gem. § 266 StGB” (Duncker & Humblot, Schriften zum Strafrecht, Band 249, Berlin 2013) [in German]
• Tsagkaraki, Eirini, “Geldwäscherei durch Strafverteidiger – Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung der Problematik in der Schweiz, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Österreich und Griechenland” (Stämpfli Verlag, Zürich 2012) [in German]
Articles
• Tsagaraki, Irini, “Evaluation of EPPO in its first two years of operation” (Nova Criminalia 18/2023, p. 6) [in Greek]
• Tsagaraki, Irini, “Jurisdiction on Art. 237 Code of Criminal Proceedings regarding the translation of essential documents in criminal proceedings” (Nova Criminalia 13/2021, p. 6) [in Greek]
• Tsagaraki, Irini, “The mitigating circumstance of the unreasonable duration of criminal proceedings without fault of the accused person under Article 84 § 3 of the Greek Penal Code” (Nova Criminalia 9/2020, p. 6) [in Greek]
• Tsagaraki, Irini, “Comment on the Judgement Nr. 1213/2017 issued by the Criminal Senate of the District Court of Thessaloniki (laundering of money deriving from a tax evasion)” (Nova Criminalia 3/2018, p. 8) [in Greek]
• Tsagaraki, Irini, “Witnesses of hearsay in criminal proceedings” (Poiniki Dikaiosyni 2010, p. 719) [in Greek]