One of the two main defendants in the extortion case at his expense Deputy Governor of Ilia Nikos Korovesisat the same time that the investigations of the authorities are still in full progress.

This is the 35-year-old man, who was arrested last Friday in Amaliada, with the money from the extortion in his hand, and the District Attorney of Ilia has brought a felony charge against him for the crime of attempted professional extortion and for misdemeanor gang membership.

During his apology before Investigator Ilia, which lasted about three hours, the 35-year-old, who was remanded in custody, denied any involvement in the two cases of extortion attributed to him in the indictment, namely in May 2023 and on November 29 2024.

According to information from the “Country“, the accused argued that, especially for the case from which his arrest arose, there was no extortion and he claimed before the Investigator that “I went to get some money for a legitimate reason in the context of an out-of-court settlement with Mr. Korovesi, for a claim I had from slanderous defamation that he himself had committed against me.”

The allegations of the accused, who filed a memorandum, were not accepted and the Investigator ordered his temporary detention with the consent of the Prosecutor.

The 35-year-old is accused of attempted extortion by profession, which is prosecuted as a felony, after he failed to collect the profit from the extortion, because the pre-marked banknotes that came from the act of extortion were confiscated, however, according to the prosecution brought against him , acted with an organized plan, one that allowed him to extort again in the future.

As for the second person, who is also a natural perpetrator and faces the criminal charge of extortion by profession, he is accused of having committed two extortions, collecting in May 2023 the amount of 3,000 euros and in the summer of 2024 the amount of 18,000 euros, by Nikos Korovesis.

The 44-year-old received a summons to apologize tomorrow Thursday at 11 a.m. before the Investigator Ilia, where he will probably receive the legal deadline to prepare his apology.

Finally, the lawyers who declared a representation in support of the charge on behalf of Mr. Thodoris Antonopoulos and Makis Papagiannopoulos remain in Korovesi, while the lawyer Dionysis Zisimopoulos was declared absent.