
A domestic helper and her Albanian husband defrauded an elderly person they cared for, taking a total of over 500,000 euros of immovable and movable assets.
The event was recorded in the Greek state, where the local media write that the couple used notarial power of attorney and psychiatric certificates, while according to the documents, the 82-year-old woman was in good health, despite having "inability to sign", dementia and other health problems. heavy.
The couple were found guilty of fraud and sentenced to six years in prison, while the psychiatrist who issued the certificate was sentenced to four years in prison.
The case came to justice after the death of the elderly woman in September 2017, when the family of the 82-year-old woman was informed of the will by which she left real and movable property to the couple from Albania.
According to the indictment, the two defendants had forced the elderly woman to sign successive powers of attorney instructing them to manage her bank accounts and sell her real estate, while before her death they had transferred a residence of hers in the name their old woman who was in the center of Thessaloniki.
With the decisions of the civil courts, which preceded the criminal ones, the will was annulled.
In search of forgiveness, the defendants denied the accusations, while the couple emphasized that the elderly woman gave them her property of her own free will, because she had been cared for with little payment in recent years and had no relationship with her relatives.