Vicky Stamati, the wife of jailed PASOK former minister of defence Akis Tsohatzopoulos, escaped from the Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital early Thursday morning. According to reports, the staff found her room empty and the padlock broken at precisely 5.45 a.m. Thursday morning.
Tsochatzopoulos' wife was accused of money laundering and she had repeatedly asked to be released on health grounds. Unfortunately all her petitions ware denied by the Greek justice system.
On Thursday morning, and while speaking on a morning talk show, one of her lawyers, Frangiskos Ragousis revealed that on Wednesday the courts rejected her fifth request for an early release.
He then said that she was either headed to see her child, or to Parliament to stage a protest. He then called out to his client to not harm herself and further exacerbate her situation.
A report in the To Vima newspaper also reveals that Stamati had also spoken to her husband who urged her to remain calm as well as to be patient. Stamati, however, was in a frantic state insisting that she was not planning to die in prison.
It should be reminded that Stamati was detained and arrested in April 2012 over a major procurement scandal involving her husband Akis Tsochatzopoulos. She was later found guilty and sentenced to a minimum of 12 years in prison for money laundering and accepting illegal funds which PASOK's former Minister of Defense received from armament deals.
Following her sentencing, her psychological state was allegedly deteriorated, prompting authorities to transfer her from the Korydallos prison to the Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital for closer monitoring and care.
Akis Tsochatzopoulos married Vicky Stamati in July 2004 at Paris' famous Four Seasons hotel in a lavish ceremony which raised many eyebrows in Greece. Following this, Stamati flaunted her money every which way she could. Before the austerity measures were implemented in Greece, an average Greek citizens earned roughly 30,000 euros annually, while Vicky Stamati actually spent a similar amount in February 2006 for simply two sofas and spent even more than that to complete her living room. (Sofas cost 34,860 euros and her coffee table was purchased at a whopping 21,480 euros!)
The above two instances are just mere examples of her spending sprees. She was insatiable and only wanted the best for herself and her home which is located just opposite the Parthenon on one of the most expensive streets for real estate in all of Greece. Her hairdresser alone cost over 1,000 euros a month!
The most interesting part of her "I want to be a Cinderella" story is that before she married Tsochatzopoulos -or her rich sugar daddy- Stamati’s annual income in 2006 was only 25,457.83 euros (or less than her two couches).
(She started out from a small town and ended up marrying one of Greece's most powerful men who at the time was accepting kickbacks from arms deals. She may have enjoyed the high life for a while, but when enough evidence was presented against her husband, her castle crashed into a million pieces. She was then placed in jail, where she complained about the "service" and the conditions -apparently she believed that she would be sent to the Ritz- and then when she realized that her bickering wasn't working she played the dummy card. She was placed in a psychiatric hospital and acted out the part of a sick woman for well over 15 months. After realizing that the justice system was not buying into it she made her grand escape. Now she is a wanted fugitive who will probably end up somewhere in the tropics sipping a cocktail and enjoying the money that her husband stole from the Greek people as have many more like her who will stop at nothing to enjoy finer things in life.)
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