Two years' imprisonment with a three-year suspension was imposed by the Three-Member Appeal Court on ELSTAT's former head Andreas Georgiou, considering that he should be found guilty of one of the three acts constituting the offense of dereliction of duty.

A prosecutor said on Monday (31 July) that the former head of Greece’s statistical office was found guilty as he did not consult fellow board members about the much-discussed revised 2009 deficit figures. The prosecutor also said he was an employee of the IMF at the same time.

Supreme Court Prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou on Wednesday applied for the reversal of a ruling that dropped charges against Andreas Georgiou, the former head of Greece's statistical authority ELSTAT, for falsely "inflating" the Greek deficit in 2009. Dimitriou cited "legal reasons" to reject the ruling, such as lack of reasoning and others.