Konstantinos Diogenes was transferred from Sirmium to Thessalonike and appointed doux. However when he was accused by Orestes of plotting to rise in rebellion he was sent to Thrakesion as strategos before being carried in chains to Constantinople to be locked up in a tower. Others were accused of conspiring with him to rise in rebellion against Romanos III: Ioannes, protonotarios under Basileios II, Eustathios Daphnomeles, Michael, Theognostos and Samuel, three grandsons of Michael Bourtzes, Georgios Barasbatze, co-founder of Iveron, and the nephews of the patrikios Theudatos. They were beaten, paraded through the Mese, and banished