According to information, he apologized, among other things, that the sums he is accused of “laundering” concern the vast majority of hospitalization expenses in clinics and stays in hotels, attributing them to his poor state of health.
The 63-year-old Georgian, known as the nickname “Fat”, who has been convicted in the past as the “mastermind” of the Russian-speaking mafia, codenamed “Vor V Zakone” (“thieves of the law”). A prosecutor and an investigator decided to release him under the restrictive condition of being banned from leaving the country.
The act attributed to him is connected to the alleged activity of a multi-member criminal organization, which, based in Thessaloniki, committed burglaries and thefts both in Greece and in France, with the loot amounting to hundreds of thousands of euros.
Her dismemberment was achieved in April 2018 in a parallel operation by the Greek and French prosecuting authorities, while among those arrested at the time was the 63-year-old, today, accused of being the “leader” of the criminal organization.
The French judicial authorities had requested his extradition, a request that was ultimately rejected by the Areios Pagos, on the grounds that most of the charges against him were committed in Greece. Under these circumstances, he was sentenced for the criminal organization to 10 years in prison (he was acquitted of the thefts), a sentence he served (most of it), so he was released from prison 3 months ago by Korydallos with the institution of parole.
For the above case, a separate file was filed for “laundering dirty money”, an act for which he has now been called to account.
Sitting in a wheelchair, the 63-year-old passed the “threshold” of the special investigator’s office at noon, denying the act attributed to him.
According to information, he apologized, among other things, that the sums he is accused of “laundering” concern the vast majority of hospitalization expenses in clinics and stays in hotels, attributing them to his poor state of health.
The 63-year-old, called the “archmafioso”, has occupied the criminal courts of Thessaloniki in the previous decade for participating in various criminal actions. His extradition had been requested by the Spanish and Georgian judicial authorities. The Greek authorities refused the respective requests.
Source: Skai
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