Giorgos Mylonakis, Greece’s Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister, is intubated in the intensive care unit of Evangelismos Hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm on Wednesday morning, according to CNN Greece. A medical bulletin from the hospital is expected.
Mylonakis, 53, collapsed during morning coffee at Maximos Mansion, the seat of the Greek government, and was transferred to Evangelismos Hospital by EKAB ambulance. Initial tests revealed the aneurysm, after which doctors decided to intubate him and transfer him to intensive care, CNN Greece reported.
Mylonakis has been caught up in the Sandy affair after Cypriot journalist and Volt candidate Makarios Drousiotis published what he described as messages from the Sandy archive attributing to Mylonakis a text stating that former President Anastasiades had called to say he would appoint Attorney General Giorgos Savvides and his deputy Savvas Angelides — describing them as “our people because of brotherhood.” Drousiotis presented the alleged message as evidence of coordinated appointments within the legal service in 2020.
Drousiotis subsequently published an audio recording of a phone conversation he claimed involved Mylonakis. When Mylonakis denied it was his voice — pointing to the speaker’s distinct Cypriot accent — Drousiotis claimed the speaker was a member of Mylonakis’s personal security detail, a claim Mylonakis also rejected. The Greek newspaper Documento separately published a report linking Mylonakis to the broader case, including alleged private messages with individuals he says he does not know and alleged communication with former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, which he also denied.
Mylonakis said he contacted Drousiotis directly by message and phone as soon as the first post appeared, saying he had no connection to the case, did not know any of the persons named and had no knowledge of any brotherhood. On Tuesday he filed a criminal complaint before Greece’s Supreme Court prosecutor against Drousiotis and others who republished the allegations, describing the material as fabricated and the broader narrative as a “fictional scandal.”
The Sandy affair centres on allegations by Drousiotis of a network involving senior Cypriot judicial, political and financial figures. All those named have denied wrongdoing. The evidence has been sent to Europol’s cybercrime laboratories for forensic examination.
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