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The man who shocked Greece died at the age of 82 when it was revealed in 1987 that he had been killing older people for 6 years to “eat” his inheritance.
As reported by dikastiko.gr, the lawyer, former mayor of Nea Chalkidona and executive of PASOK, Chr. Papadopoulos will go down in history as head of the so-called murderous company.
He took his last breath at Agia Olga’s hospital when he was defeated by old age after a few days of hospitalization.
The leader of the bloodiest “gang” of murders of the elderly
The name “Christos Papadopoulos” may not mean anything to the youngest. For adults, this name is synonymous with two words that together cause horror: Killer company.
A man beyond suspicion, a model of successful citizen, former mayor of Chalkidona, head of the family and father of three children.
He conceived a paranoid plan several years before its implementation, according to which the main objective was to find possible victims with specific characteristics for the usurpation of his property.
History would be stained with millions of drachmas and blood.
The beginning of the killer company
The target was mainly elderly people, who had no relatives, at least not close ones, while they had important properties, mainly real estate. and had health problems, as is often the case in older people
The next step after locating them was to approach them and ensure their trust through various means, followed by the falsification of their wills and their murder, and the last two were sometimes carried out in reverse order!
The last step was the publication of these wills, with the necessary synergy of notaries, bailiffs, and various false witnesses, to complete the seizure of property, which from the beginning was the objective end of the crime.
The implementation of the plan started with the staffing of the “Company” with … executives who were suitable, but also willing to fulfill his purpose and so Papadopoulos gradually framed himself with accomplices who knew exactly their roles.
The … human resources of the “Company”
Specifically, these were, among others, Vassilis Plataniotis, bailiff, Nikolaos Peppas, merchant, Ioannis Pampris, contractor and George Xanthopoulos, janitor.
At the narrow core of the gang’s “brain” is Georgia Papanikolaou, A housewife, the husband of a bailiff, who was sometimes tougher than the inspirer of the “Company” himself.
In a relatively short time, members of the spiral killed eight people. and their property was taken away with deceptive tricks.
The victims and the hundreds (!) Heirs
The grim start was made by a relative of Papadopoulos, 84-year-old businessman Vassilios Eleftheriadis, uncle of his wife Anastasia and godfather of their son, who was named heir to their estate after the operation of the “company” in his handwritten will.
The second victim of the criminal organization was Laura Pantou, 67, who was found dead in a grove in Kolonaki with the cause of death involved in a car accident, while two months later, her aunt Elli Vergiopoulou, 70, , was found dead in the apartment where she lived. .
In his will, Vergiopoulou named 46 people, all women, including Papadopoulos’s two daughters, who had the usufruct along with two other women as heirs. With a special condition in the will, if one of the usufructuaries died or the inheritance was renounced, the usufruct passed to the others and “coincidentally” the other two women renounced the usufruct. It should be noted that the will was drawn up before the notary Eleni Kokiopoulou – Kastanaki and three witnesses, who also appeared as witnesses in the will of another victim, Charalambos Typaldos.
The murder of the next victim, Efrosini Fragoulaki, 65, demonstrates Papanikolaou’s analgesia and stubbornness, as he killed his aunt by hitting her over the head with a stone and, to create an alibi, called the killer for weeks after the murder. her neighbors posing as her aunt. He even filed a lawsuit against the deceased, claiming that she went abroad without paying her four-year earnings for the care she provided at home.
A few months before her murder, Frangoulaki introduced her friends to a 70-year-old man named “Dimitris” as her future husband with whom she intended to live in Switzerland. For this reason he sold a property of his at the price of 6,500,000 drachmas (19,076 euros), an amount that was never found. As it was later discovered, the future groom was a member of the organization, Plataniotis!
As victims, Ag. Kalafatis and St. Bruzakis, were also registered, while, it was revealed, the members of the spiral before their arrest were planning the murder of the Pentazos couple in Amaliada. The latest victim of the “company” was Charalambos Typaldos, 84, a shipowner, who was found dead in 1986 in his office in Akti Tzelepis, the official cause of death being a heart attack. However, when his will was published, the installation as heirs of the daughter and wife of a person, whom the heir knew little, specifically only two months, of Nikolaos Peppas, was impressive!
Ultimately, it turned out that Plataniotis and Papanikolaou were actively involved in the murder, who even had the excuse ready if something went wrong during the crime: he would claim that the victim died from an insult during an affair with her!
Revelation and the end of the Satanic “Society”
When Typaldos’s will was published, naming Peppa’s daughter and wife, whom the deceased knew little about, as heirs, his family commissioned a private investigator to investigate the case.
The results of his investigation were announced by the police-private investigator Konstantinos Spyrou to the police and soon the authorities unraveled the web of criminal activities of the “company”.
The court, the unrepentant culprits, and the gruesome attacks
During the hearing, Papadopoulos tried to present himself as a “Robben of the poor” and a revolutionary, saying: “Human life is not taboo”, “If there were 100 killer companies, our society would be better.” “The correct objective is not to hit a prosecutor as extremist organizations do. Robberies and robberies are social acts. The rest are words.”
He also presented various pseudo-dilemmas in court, such as whether it is better for someone like Typaldos to live or for 10 other people to live, claiming that the money they stole was distributed to people in need.
The first courthouse prosecutor Vassilis Markis, honorary deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court today, had said in his speech on Chr. Papadopoulos:
“No motive justifies such actions. He tried to appear in court as Robin Hood. But we cannot find sources for him. The only thing that Papadopoulos was looking for was money. I do not feel any bad for Papadopoulos, but the message that I wanted to convey to the court with its worldview… ”.
Of course, in his apology, Papadopoulos showed such a revolutionary frame of mind, declaring: “I was stupid. At that moment our minds were blown, but over time I realized that we should not do all this, we reached extreme situations. . But, strangely enough, our action had an ideological background. Since I was little I had a left conscience. In no testament were there less than fifty heirs, usually it was 70 to 100, while in the case of Typaldos, for Please, they were 156. That is, I did not do all this by myself, but to get the poor out of their hunger. “At that time, I thought it was more valuable for 150 people to eat bread than the life of an 85 person or 90 years. “
