Helios Directors face 1.190 charges... finally after 4 years

Four years after the Helios Airways disaster 4 directors of the company are now prosecuted. Andreas Drakou President of Helios (also heavily involved in the Libra Holidays fraud), Demetris Pantazis Managing Director of the Airline, Giorgos Kikkidis, director for flights and Ianko Stoimenov chief pilot and training director. The four of them are facing 1.190 accusations each.

Here the question is what is going to happen next? Are those people going to jail? Are they going to banned from running an airline again? I think that in Cyprus we did not reach this level of democracy yet. In Cyprus is much easier to go to jail if you broke in a house than being probably responsible for the death of 121 people (they are accused for 119 not for the pilot and the co-pilot).

Andreas Drakou has been in the market of Cyprus tourism for many years. For many ignorant people he was considered one of the “fathers” of tourism in Cyprus with the descent of Libra Holidays as the savior of the Tourism Industry of Cyprus. It was then when he managed to convince hoteliers to partner with him and today 90% of the hotels Libra has agreements are still unpaid , some of them since 2007.