By the time he has promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in a press release of 2 March 2013,[24] he assigned Deputy Head of the Authority of Financial Police and Cyber Crime Subdivision (Υπηρεσία Οικονομικής Αστυνομίας και Δίωξης Ηλεκτρονικού Εγκλήματος - ΥΠ.Ο.Α.Δ.Η.Ε.)
[37][38] Additionally, on 24 October 2011 the Cyber Crime Unit launched a mobile application, accompanied with its respective website, called CyberKid[39][40][41][42] funded through private sponsorship by the Wind Hellas providing useful information to children and internet users.
[72][73][74] The 305/2019 irrevocable decision on 5 November 2018 taken by judges Aggeliki Aliferopoulou (Αγγελική Αλειφεροπούλου), vice-president of Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece Dimitrios Georgas (Δημήτριος Γεωργάς) and Grigorios Koutsokostas (Γρηγόριος Κουτσοκώστας), with the presence of Deputy Public Prosecutor of Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece Panagiotis Pagou (Παναγιώτης Πάγου) and Secretary Aikaterinis Anagnostopoulou (Αικατερίνης Αναγνωστοπούλου).
The Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece dismissed the appeal of previous referral order of the Judicial Council of Appeal Court Judges (Greek: Συμβούλιο Εφετών) because the court record of the irrevocable decision along by the findings of the investigation showed that Manolis Sfakianakis was implicated in the case appearing to be known, suggested methods, and told journalist Sokratis Giolias 37-year-old about an investigation to be conducted by the Cyber Crime Unit in the coming days at his residence in order to evade criminal charges and remove away his computer devices and any evidence which will be objectively identify who is administrator of Troktiko online journal.
Also according to the court record, Manolis Sfakianakis personally had informed Sokratis Giolias for a contract killing against him, based on phone call he had with him on 16 July 2010.
The journalist of Proto Thema newspaper, director of Theme 98.9 FM radio station and Troktiko online journal, Sokratis Giolias, was assassinated on 19 July 2010 by gunmen were waiting in ambush shooting him while he was outside of his residence in Athens.
[81] For a wild hunt against him during the period 2015 to 2019, from persons who still today are preying the sector of public law enforcement, Manolis Sfakianakis addresses, speaking to the Real News[82] newspaper with regard media reports[83][84][85][86] connecting him with the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias in July 2010.
And because, as he states, he has been patient enough to date, he declared "I now intend, to exercise all my legal rights to the Greek courts and European Union courts, while it is unprecedented the continuity development of a criminal case against me with mash data and many exculpatory elements but also the unprecedented my degrading treatment to the public by websites, publications and from false and fabricated complains in which we officially know the details of the authors who apply this atmosphere around me.
Later the same day following a press release for 2016 Annual Assessments for Brigadier Generals[29][30] issued by the Hellenic Police's Headquarters on 18 February 2016 on which contained an official announcement stated "it has accepted the action of Manolis Sfakianakis and has been cancelled his assignment at the Administrative Support and Human Resources Branch".
The transfer has attracted intense criticism from a large part of people when was reported in the media with written comments made mostly on Facebook and Twitter.
[28] The vacant position of the Head of the Cyber Crime Division was filled when Police Colonel George Papaprodromou (Γιώργος Παπαπροδρόμου)[1][2][3] assigned for the post assumed from 27 May 2016 to 2 November 2018.
On the 21 February 2016 Eleftheros Typos newspaper's article, M. Sfakianakis he commented[108] "If I had not the confidence and support by Prime Minister (Alexis Tsipras), and people's love, they would have already demobilized me.
Some supporters closest to him in the terms of political expediency they pointing out the unworthily person rather than the worthy [...]",[33][31][34] revealed Ministry's dissatisfaction with Manolis Sfakianakis' acts accusing him of obstruction of justice violating the Code of Ethics[117] following he had interfered his remit breached rules.
Nikos Toskas also concluded stating that "there would be no further tolerance in this regard while his self-promotional actions on duty having worsened, the red lines have already been crossed and there conceits cannot be dealt with".