The trial of “Doctor Kontos” is entering its final phase today, shortly before the verdict is passed by the judges, as the headquarters prosecutor’s hearing will take place today.

The 50-year-old pseudo-doctor is accused of twelve murders (including two children) and fourteen attempted murders of seriously ill patients who trusted his paradoxical “healing” methods.

The judges of the jury and the participants in the trial will hear the decision of the Prosecutor General in what is attached to the case file, and in what became clear after almost ten months of hearing the case of “Dr. Kontos”, who is surrounded by 16 more defendants in the dock.

With his sentence expected to be lengthy, the prosecutor will accept or reject what is attributed to the main accused as well as his 16 co-defendants in a case that the prosecutor himself, at the start of the trial last November, was described as “unprecedented in Greek annals”.

It is alleged that a 50-year-old man from 2010 until his arrest in 2019 pretended to be a leading oncologist and without the slightest connection to medicine and effectively defeated cancer and other serious diseases, such as a case of multiple sclerosis patients, giving his victims herbs and special diets as sophisticated treatments.

After which the victims of “Dr. Kontos”, who finally declared to the judicial authorities an “experienced nerd”, having read important documents, forensic reports, etc., as well as what the main accused and his co-defendant, the chief prosecutor of the jury, pleaded guilty to will announce with an indication of whether or not his sentence is in favor of the guilt of the 50-year-old and allegedly involved in the case.

The voluminous file states that “Dr. Kontos” was assisted by his co-defendants, doctors, heads of a certain clinic, a nun, and others, who allegedly strengthened the conviction in patients that the “doctor” had a high scientific authority. .

What the fake doctor claimed in his apology

Apologizing in court last July, the protagonist of the case himself denied any deceit or attempt to deceive people who trusted him, claiming that he never told them that they would be cured.

Concerning mainly questions of religious faith, “Dr. Kontos told the judges that he unselfishly wanted to help people “for whom conventional medicine had nothing else to offer” because of his extensive knowledge of botany. He even hinted that in the end he himself had little involvement in the course of his sacrifices, since “God decides who will live and who will die.”

As for the title of “Doctor of Oncology”, he said that it was awarded to him because of his connection with the Greek-American doctor and that he himself was simply wrong in not refuting this rumor, which circulated mainly in a certain monastery, from where many of his victims identified him.

However, in what, according to the defendant, it simply does not clarify that he is not “Dr. Contos”, the prosecutor pointed out to him that it was not only about the omission of a refutation, but rather about the manifestation of this quality.

“You had a link to the page, a medical certificate that you showed to witnesses, and various actions indirectly indicating this. You sent a message “I’m in the operating room”, you said that you had contacts with Ms. Marianna Vardinogiannis and others, that you treated the President of the Republic of Cyprus, treated Schumacher,” the representative of the prosecutor’s office emphasized.

Dr. Kontos served 18 months of temporary detention in a pending case last December, but he remains in prison as a new 12-month temporary detention order was issued against him in the same month on charges of money laundering .

Source: RES-IPE