{"id":8425,"date":"2026-06-23T02:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/qatargate-arrest-warrant-issued-for-dimitris-avramopoulos\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:09:14","slug":"qatargate-arrest-warrant-issued-for-dimitris-avramopoulos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/qatargate-arrest-warrant-issued-for-dimitris-avramopoulos\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatargate: Arrest warrant issued for Dimitris Avramopoulos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greek judicial authorities have been informed of this development. However, the warrant has not yet been executed, as Mr. Avramopoulos <strong>holds parliamentary status<\/strong> (Member of Parliament for Ilia) and the <strong>lifting<\/strong> of his immunity by Parliament is <strong>required<\/strong> beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prescribed procedure, the file transmitted by the Belgian authorities will be sent from the Athens Court of Appeals Prosecutor&#8217;s Office to the Supreme Court Prosecutor&#8217;s Office and then, through the Ministry of Justice, will reach Parliament for the necessary actions.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial sources report that Mr. Avramopoulos visited the Athens Court of Appeals Prosecutor&#8217;s Office on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is recalled that from the beginning of the Qatargate investigation, the former European Commissioner had stated that all his actions were completely legal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"nfg-meta\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden;font-size:0;height:0;overflow:hidden;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">nfg-origin:gr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels authorities issued an arrest warrant for Greek MP Dimitris Avramopoulos in the Qatargate case, but execution requires Parliament to lift his immunity first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":8424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[7857,2198,3295,7855,485,100,393,7856],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arrest-warrant","tag-belgium","tag-corruption-investigation","tag-dimitris-avramopoulos","tag-european-parliament","tag-greece","tag-politics","tag-qatargate","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}