The guilt of a businessman in Magnesia for the murder of the 70-year-old former ballerina, Ioanna Maria Enriettas Kontoulis, decided today by the Larissa Mixed Jury Court of Appeal, one year after the first-instance conviction by the Larissa Mixed Jury Court.

It is recalled that the Maria Kotouli has been missing since 2002then at the age of 70, but in 2019, following the will of the Criminal Council of Volos, the 66-year-old businessman was found accused of the act of intentional homicide in a calm state of mind. her corpse, in an unknown place, in order to cover up his criminal act in this way”.

The court today found the accused guilty by a majority of 4-3 – 3 jurors abstained – and imposed on him by a majority of 5-2 – two jurors abstained – a prison sentence of 7 years, having previously accepted the recognition of two mitigating factors – the unreasonable term of the criminal procedure that is not due to the fault of the accused and the good behavior after the commission of the act.

This decision, like the first instance, is considered one of the rare ones in the judicial annals of Greece, as not only was a defendant convicted of murder without the body being found, but also, as the defendant’s defense pointed out in its opening statement, without the identity of the defendant being known. mechanism of death, evidence or testimony.