The referees Gontas and Foufis were acquitted and compensated

Spyros Gontas and Giannis Foufis’ justification in their 2019 lawsuit over their then two-year ban from the national basketball championships was solemn.

The two international arbitrators acquitted by ASEAD appealed to the civil courts and filed complaints against the EEC, the KED and personally against the members of the Central Arbitration Committee (Symeonidis, Koromilas, Tavoulareas, Papadopoulos) and the former President G. Vasilakopoulos.

Her exclusion from the refereeing panels without justification was deemed illegal and abusive.

The judge even accepted that the lump sum agreed by the arbitrators is a fee for services rendered as a 13% VAT is deducted (defendants argued that this was compensation).

The decision goes on to say: “With the aforementioned illegal and culpable conduct, the defendants have insulted the personality of the plaintiff and caused him non-material damage for which compensation must be awarded to him“.

We remind you that, despite ASEAD’s decision in favor of the referees, KED insisted on not including them in the tables, considering their arguments unfounded, arguing that the Supreme Court of Sport … is only a committee.

Gontas and Foufis have filed both institutional and personal lawsuits. New lawsuits and court cases ensued as the blockade continued for the next three years, the trial of which has not yet taken place.

Both arbitrators have received a substantial amount (the exact figure is unknown, but a rough estimate is €50,000 each) which, if they do not deduct it from the defendants’ accounts, they will claim from the EWG. Even if management changed.

Details on what his press release states, Giannis Mavrou, counsel for the two arbitrators: “On the occasion of the publication of the decisions of the Single Member Court of First Instance Athens (Nos. 1522/2022 and 1523/2022), by which they were adopted, in partly in relation to the amounts awarded, the actions of the arbitrators Basketball, Mr. Spyridon Gonda and Ioannis Foufis, were also judged by the competent civil court that the members of the KED intentionally and at the suggestion of the Federal President, they were not appointed as their arbitrators plaintiffs whose ultimate goal is to discredit them and to hinder their further development and generally attack them her personality, which embarrasses her for her choice collaborate with another international organization (Euroleague) that was not theirs acceptance of the accused. This behavior was judged to be constitutive abusive exercise of the EEC’s right to define through its KED Referees who compete in every game and go beyond the set limits Good faith and morality imposed and consequently were derogatory and disparaging to the plaintiffs.

It was also assumed that these EWG tactics had repercussions created in the world that surrounds the sport of basketball negative impression of the plaintiffs’ abilities as an arbitrator during there are also economic consequences like that illegal and culpable exclusion from category A1 games led to the loss of earnings that will surely be received for the two consecutive seasons.

This means that the above decisions and their justification can be attributed Institutions of the EEC and its former President, not only legally but also ethically because after justifying the decisions with these acts to blame created a “legally and ethically unacceptable situation”. 2 perceptions of the average social person” as judged by me the decisions of ASEAD.

These decisions are a justification for Spyridon Gonda and Ioannis Foufis, who strived for it with their long-standing struggle Consolidation of the principles of equality law and meritocracy in space the basketball referee.