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LAST UPDATE: 20:50
By Panagiotis Stathis
They were sentenced to preventive detention, after a lengthy apology to 35th Investigator Kon. Alexopoulou, the founder of Folli Follie Dimitris Koutsolioutsos and his son George. On the contrary, Kaiti Koutsolioutsou was released.
According to the information, Ms Koutsolioutsou was released on bail of up to 100,000 euros. She was also banned from leaving the country and reporting to a police station in her area twice a month. She burst into tears when she heard the decision to take her son George and her husband Dimitris into custody.
According to the information, the three defendants during their apologies denied the charges against them.
The defendants presented letters of apology and answered the investigator’s questions, trying to refute the serious accusations they face, however the two central executives in Folli Follie’s long career failed to convince the investigating authorities.
Their explanations concerned the alleged fictitious financial statements of Folli Follie, the deception of the investing public and the falsification of bank documents that, according to the accusations, led to the company and its investors financial ruin.
Be late and take responsibility
The investigation of the case took too long, as the call for an apology came 2 years after the revelation of the famous report on the company’s activities and (more) 1.5 years after the first criminal proceedings were completed after of its completion. first part of the investigation by the prosecutor Giannis Dragatsis.
The latter was obviously the person who laid the first stone (with the quickest preliminary examination he conducted) to take the case further.
The categories
The main crimes for which they apologized are:
– Dimitris and Tzortzis Koutsolioutsos for 5 crimes that are “fraud to the investing public, money laundering, market manipulation, criminal organization and falsification”.
– Kati Koutsolioutsou for three crimes (fraud, money laundering, manipulation).
It is recalled that Dimitris, Kaiti and George Koutsolioutsos, who appeared last Friday at interrogation 35, accompanied by their lawyers, were given a few days for today, when they apologized for the serious criminal acts they face.
The family’s apologies close the circle of apologies for a total of 30 defendants in the case. Everyone else has already apologized and been released on restrictive terms or not.
All the defendants had been called to apologize in early July, but were then given a deadline for late August and early September. The purpose, of course, was to inform them of a file of thousands of pages and to prepare their apologies.
The first criminal proceedings (for fraud and money laundering) against the family began in December 2018. Since then, they have been prohibited from leaving the country.
Another 11 people were prosecuted for the same charges: the chief financial officer, the director of the company’s accounting department, three more members of the Board during the disputed period, the head of the Group’s subsidiary in Asia, and the public accountant who audited the falsified financial data of the company. in the balance of 2017. And they were prohibited from leaving the country.
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