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Criminal charges against GD deputy Kassidiaris

Criminal charges against GD deputy Kassidiaris

Prosecution authorities pressed criminal charges against detained Golden Dawn deputy Ilias Kassidiaris for revealing the contents of an illegal video recording of a conversation with a former aide of the prime minister and government's secretary general at the time Takis Baltakos.

The case file relates to the video recording of a conversation that Kassidiaris had with Baltakos last year over the judicial investigation into the Golden Dawn case.

The release of the footage resulted into the resignation of Baltakos.

Kassidiaris is being prosecuted for violating the confidentiality of a discussion and the use of its illegal recording.

The charges were pressed after the Parliament' plenary last week voted in favour of stripping Kassidiaris of his immunity.