Profile: Ilias Anagnostopoulos

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Biography: Business Crime

Ilias Anagnostopoulos heads the criminal litigation unit of Anagnostopoulos Bazinas Fifis. He has appeared as lead counsel in most significant cases in Greece during the past fifteen years including business and financial fraud, tax and customs fraud, medical malpractice, product and environmental liability, money laundering, corruption practices, anti-terrorism, extradition and surrender procedures. He is regularly instructed to advise and represent international and domestic corporations from the energy, defence, aviation, shipping, financial services, raw materials, pharmaceuticals, food, health care, telecommunications and media sectors, as well as foreign governments and governmental organisations. As a legal expert, he regularly offers opinions in Greek and foreign jurisdictions.

Ilias Anagnostopoulos received his education at the School of Law, University of Athens (1978), and the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Dr juris, 1983). He is an assistant professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Athens, School of Law, and has published extensively in Greek, English and German on matters of Hellenic, European and international criminal law, business crimes, securities fraud, commercial fraud, reform of criminal procedure and human rights.

Some of his publications are Criminal Law in Greece (with K Magliveras, Kluwer Law International, The Hague 2000); Internationalisierung des Strafrechts (ed.) (Nomos, Baden Baden 2003); Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters in the European Union, IELR 2002.

Memberships include Hellenic Criminal Bar Association (secretary general), Criminal Law Experts Committee of the Hellenic Ministry of Justice, Criminal Law Committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of the European Union (Chairman), Fraudnet of the ICC, the European Criminal Bar Association and International Association of Penal Law.