The petition of the former judge of the Court of First Instance Antonia Helia for her non-extradition to Greece was denied by the British Court of Appeals; she is being prosecuted on the case of the so-called illegal judicial network. The British Court of Appeals granted the motion of the Greek authorities and now the former judge has to either resort to the Supreme Court, the House of the Lords, or return to our country.

At all events, Antonia Helia mentioned in one of her statements that she has already started doing all that is necessary concerning her petition for cassation in the House of the Lords. “What is positive in this decision is the fact that it leaves room for further legal remedies, in any case I would have been more satisfied if I had been utterly vindicated and my petition had been granted”, she noted in optimism.

Simultaneously, she did not hesitate to insinuate that the Greek Justice System has its share of the blame by saying: “The obsession of the Greek authorities contributed legally and backstage to this case, by forwarding false evidence to the British court”. It is reminded that Antonia Helia, who has been an absconder since 2005, is accused of being involved in the ‘illegal judicial network’. Five European warrants of arrest have been issued against her, four of which have already been enforced; as far as the fifth is concerned, according to her lawyer “her fellow defendants have been acquitted”.