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By Panagiotis Stathis
According to the information, during his apology, the founder of the Folli Follie group, Dim., Partially accepted his responsibilities, but without obtaining the same financial benefit. Koutsolioutsos.
The former state-owned businessman allegedly took responsibility for the fictitious financial data presented over several years on the company’s balance sheets, leaving both his wife and son George out of the picture. However, the court decision was to send him and his son George Koutsolioutsos to prison after their lengthy apology yesterday for the so-called Folli Follie scandal. The first was transferred to Korydallos and the second to Trikala Penitentiary.
They rejected
However, in addition to partial acceptance by part of the accusation, the once powerful men of the company tried to refute the most serious accusations attributed to them of fraud against the investing public, money laundering, market manipulation, criminal organization and counterfeiting. .
Unlike her husband and son, Kati Koutsolioutsou was released under the strict conditions of reporting to her local police station twice a month and prohibited from leaving. In addition, you are required to pay a deposit of 100,000 euros.
The latter testified that she knew nothing. As he allegedly said, although he was a vice president of the company’s Board of Directors, he only participates in product design and public relations.
Partial acceptance
According to information, Dimitris Koutsolioutsos accepted part of what is attributed to him regarding the fictitious financial data that was presented for several years on the company’s balance sheets. However, he claimed that he was forced to do so at a difficult economic time for the group, as part of his vision to create a multinational group, which would be “the jewel of Greek entrepreneurship and highlight the name of Greece throughout the world” . And how he believed that in a short time he could return the company to legality, something he did not achieve due to the adverse economic developments worldwide from 2007. However, he insisted that in no case did he benefit from this action. He also presented relevant bank documents, in order to prove that he financed the company with his personal loans, when necessary.
“I am sorry for all the people I have bothered,” he said.
“I did not know”
George Koutsolioutsos is reported to have said that he had no knowledge of his father’s actions and what was happening at Folli Follie’s “sinful” subsidiary in Asia. He claimed that he was responsible for the Greek parent company and knew nothing about the counterfeit items from the Asian branch which resulted in a false image of robustness for the Group.
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