Greek Justice Is For Sale and the Greeks Hate The Yanks
A stupid adult daughter of my Greek friend, along with her two junior school children was arrested for smuggling some white powder drugs in to Greece from Turkey. She was tossed in to pre-trial jail near Agia Paraskevi (Greek: Αγία Παρασκευή) (Athens),
The inmates seem to be OK there, she had her cell handset with her (legally), and the food was decent and visiting hours long.
The father, my friend, hired a lawyer and after four months wait she was hustled in to court and the charge dismissed on a technicality! Turns out the four months was needed to get a USD$10,000 + bribe agreed upon between the defence attorney and the judge (using his clerk).
Presumably Alexander Vinnik didn't have a connected lawyer or a financially stressed judge!
There is certainly no love lost between large sections of the ruling classes after Andreas Georgios Papandreou and the Konstantinos Karamanlis (an anti-American government) and later PASOK.
This feeling was exacerbated when cell handsets were found to be tapped (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2%80%9305)(https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/greek_wiretappi_1.html) including those of the Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis and members of his family, the Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyannis, most phones of the top officers at the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry for Public Order, members of the ruling party, ranking members of the opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement party (PASOK), the Hellenic Navy General Staff, the previous Minister of Defense and one phone of a locally hired Greek American employee of the American Embassy. Phones of Athens-based Arab businessmen were also tapped.