Ambelokipoi: Owner of the illegal nursing home found guilty

The owner of the illegal nursing home in Ambelokipoi was sentenced to 18 months in prison, convertible to a daily fine of ten euros. She was charged with attempted extortion and exposure. Specifically, the Three-Member Misdemeanor Court, adopting the relevant prosecutor’s proposal, found her guilty of the misdemeanor offense of extortion for an amount of 150 euros, as well as one of the three exposure offenses originally attributed to her.

In her defense, the accused denied the charges. She argued that the elderly resident had a series of health problems that had been concealed by the complainant, who is the daughter of the resident, and that’s why she had asked for the resident to be transferred back to the hospital from where she had been brought. “I begged her daughter to take her. I found an ambulance for her,” she added, claiming that she would never ask for money and that she generally did not accept patients with bedsores.

Prosecutor: How much money did you receive from the complainant?

Defendant: 300 euros. When I read the documents about the woman’s health problems, I became furious. If she had 2,000 euros to give me, would she have come to me, Mr. Prosecutor? She was a poor woman, I would never have asked her for so much money. She told me, “Give me the 300 euros so I can take my mother.” I paid for the ambulance myself, 75 euros. I told her that I would keep 150 for the ambulance and the damages caused by her mother, who had ruined my pillows. I assessed my work at that amount.

Previously, the complainant testified that she had gone to the nursing home as a temporary solution because it was the Holy Week.

As she described, after visiting the apartment, she paid an advance, and that same afternoon, her mother was transferred. “The next morning, my phone rang. It was the accused, in a frantic state, demanding money to not throw my mother out. She said I had deceived her because my mother was a difficult case. She wanted between 1,500 to 2,000 euros, otherwise, she said she would throw her in the trash. I asked for some time to take her, to find an ambulance. I couldn’t communicate. I went to the apartment, but she didn’t open the door. I called the police, but she wouldn’t open to them either. The police took me to the station to file a report. The accused continued to threaten and insult me through text messages. Finally, I managed to find an ambulance and take my mother.”