Despite his resistance to joining his father’s firm, Iliopoulos’s name was on the Iron Antonis’s paperwork, along with those of his two brothers. Greek prosecutors charged all three with the “negligent homicide” of the men on board, claiming they sent the freighter to sea knowing it was in dangerously poor condition. The brothers denied wrongdoing at their trial, which was held in 2000 and 2001 at a utilitarian courthouse near Panagiotis’s office in Piraeus.
