{"id":12264,"date":"2026-06-22T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12264"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:22:00","slug":"stavros-balaskas-is-facing-legal-action-following-statements-he-made-regarding-the-stavroula-leventaki-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12264","title":{"rendered":"Stavros Balaskas is facing legal action following statements he made regarding the Stavroula Leventaki case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the <b>Court of Justice<\/b>, <strong>Stavros Balaskas<\/strong> is expected to be summoned, following <b>statements <\/b>he made on a television program regarding the <b>investigation <\/b>into the <b>murder of Stavroula Leventaki<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>On the sidelines of the press conference regarding the case, it became known that <b>Mr. Balaskas will be summoned to testify regarding his claims about the police authorities\u2019 handling of the case, referring to a \u201cblunder\u201d due to the release of the 43-year-old suspect after two statements<\/b>, even though\u2014as he noted\u2014he was at the center of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, <b>he had claimed that the Chania Police Chief, Nikolaos Kanellos, was particularly annoyed by this development<\/b> and had expressed his dissatisfaction to his subordinates.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the official statements of the police authorities, the actions taken during the investigation were <b>the result of a specific operational plan and were carried out based on the information available to the investigators<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>For this reason, <b>Mr. Balaskas is expected to be called upon to provide explanations<\/b> regarding his public statements on the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stavros Balaskas is expected to be summoned to court following remarks he made on a television program regarding the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}