The Greek Supreme Court's prosecution on Tuesday denied the petitions lodged by four German nationals asking for the withdrawal of an indictment ordering them to stand trial for the Siemens case. Roland Koch, Reinhard Herbert Siekaczek, Wolfgang Rudolph and Ludwig Anton Heinrich Jasper, were among the 64 individuals, 13 Germans included, indicted in March by the Athens Appeals Justice' Council over “contract 8002”.
The four Germans had applied against the indictment as inadequately justified, on the ground that they had not been given the public prosecutor's recommendation translated into German and that the principles of non self-incrimination and res judicata (meaning an issue on which a court has already ruled) were violated since the case took into account past depositions taken in Germany and thus invalidated the process.