In his defence, Kallakis expressed incredulity at evidence of forgery and clung desperately to claims that his connections to establishment figures were genuine.
Another scholar, Ariel Shisha-Halevy, a professor of linguistics at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a leading expert in Coptic language, reviewed the text's language and concluded it "offered no evidence of forgery".
British chess historian Edward G. Winter notes that the articles in the Pariser Zeitung misspelled the names of several famous chess masters, which could be interpreted as evidence of forgery or as attempts by Alekhine to signal that he was being forced to write things that he did not believe; but these could simply have been typesetting errors, as Alekhine's handwriting was not easy to read.
Most of their evidence for a forgery was based on unfamiliarity with the processes of lithification; for example, they proposed that, based on the difference in texture associated with the feathers, feather impressions were applied to a thin layer of cement, without realizing that feathers themselves would have caused a textural difference.
On Wednesday, Iran again said this evidence consisted of "forgeries" and "fabrications".
The panel said that the documents had not been properly authenticated, but that it had no evidence they were forgeries.
A recent court judgment upholding Imedi's confiscation, despite clear evidence of fraud and forgery, is widely seen as illustrating the total lack of independence of the judicial system.
This is despite the ample evidence of reported widespread forgery, perjury, obstruction of justice, and illegal foreclosures on the homes of thousands of active-duty military personnel.
Nonetheless, Fannie continued to do business with the firm until it closed its doors last year, after evidence emerged of rampant forgeries and fraudulent filings.
Lender Processing closed the company in April 2010, after evidence emerged of apparent forgeries in these documents, a practice now called robo-signing.
