The political sex scandal in Greece over the chief of staff at the Culture Ministry's affair is about to get more juicier. Zahapoulos' former press secretary has been slapped with felony charges for her attempt to sell a sex video to a distributor as well as a top-selling newspaper. Evi Tsekou has been in custody since December 20 on blackmail charges.

Mr Zachopoulos was a key official in the campaign for the return of the Elgin Marbles, and thus the scandal took a fresh turn when John Carr's of The Times implied in his January 9th article Sex, lies and DVDs shake culture ministry in Greece, that the scandal undermined the argument for the return of the Elgin Marbles.

Tsekou is denying all charges and is "claiming that the original material that she had recorded was a video tape and had been copied without her consent during her visit to the "Proto Thema" newspaper".