Iliopoulos and his middle brother, Ioannis, were acquitted. But Antonis, who worked full-time for the patriarch, was found guilty and received a five-year suspended prison sentence. During his appeal, the judges heard testimony from a woman named Varvara Kiourani, the sister of the man who was second mate on the Iron Antonis. “The ship wasn’t sunk because of the weather conditions as we were initially told, but by those who held the fate of the crew in their hands,” she said. Kiourani recalled that in their last phone call, her brother “told me that the ship was a mess,” headed for the
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