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- WORLD, Page 38World NotesGREECEVerdict on Papandreou
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- After 10 months of hearings, more than 100 witnesses and
- 50,000 pages of documents, the epic trial of former socialist
- Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in the $210 million Bank of
- Crete scandal came to an end last week. The colossal tangle
- helped topple his flamboyant eight-year rule in 1989, but the
- court acquitted him.
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- The special tribunal concluded that prosecutors had not
- proved their case. They had charged that Papandreou ordered
- state companies to deposit funds in the private bank at a time
- when its owner was suspected of embezzlement. Papandreou was
- also accused of taking bribes from the bank owner.
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- The acquittal left Greeks little closer to the truth. But
- it did pump up the political jousting. After the verdict,
- Papandreou called for new elections to unseat the New Democracy
- government's small parliamentary majority.
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