Prominent Greek actor-director found guilty of 2 rapes

By DEMETRIS NELLAS
Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A prominent Greek stage actor and director has been sentenced to 12 years for the rape of two men when they were minors. But he has been released pending appeal. The 57-year-old Dimitris Lignadis was found guilty by an Athens court Wednesday in two out of four cases of rape. He was acquitted for insufficient evidence in a third case while the fourth accuser never appeared in court to testify despite a court decision ordering him to. The two rapes Lignadis was convicted of occurred in 2010 and 2015.