Today the trial of cardiac surgeon Lymperiadis for the “fakelaki” – “Alright Sofia, I’m going to give them to the others too,” he told the woman who reported him

The cardiac surgeon, Dimitris Lymperiadis, is expected to beryllium tried contiguous successful flagrante delicto, charged with the misdemeanor of bribery aft accepting an envelope (“fakelaki”) from a patient’s woman astatine Hippocrates Hospital successful Athens.

According to information, the doc is alleged to person demanded “fakelaki” successful bid to instrumentality peculiar attraction of patients helium had operated connected and was supervising, with the amounts wrong the envelopes reaching up to €5,000.

As protothema.gr learns from well-informed sources, this was not the archetypal clip the doc “fell into the misdeed of bribery,” since aft his apprehension astatine slightest 2 to 3 radical contacted the Internal Affairs Service of the Hellenic Police and reported having had akin unpleasant experiences.

It should besides beryllium remembered that the manager of the cardiac country session astatine Hippocrates had troubled the authorities successful the past for a akin discourtesy and had been initially sentenced to 1 year’s imprisonment with suspension, with that lawsuit inactive pending connected appeal.

The grounds of the pistillate who reported Dimitris Lymperiadis

Mrs. Sofia, who handed the marked €3,000 to Mr. Lymperiadis, spoke connected SKAI’s main quality bulletin and described what the doc told her:
“When I went successful connected Monday, September 1st, helium said to me, ‘As you see, my girl, I don’t speech to you astir money, what matters to maine is that your hubby gets well.’ Thursday day my hubby near the ICU and helium took maine and my girl wrong to pass us. He told my girl to measurement extracurricular and past said to me, ‘Listen Sofia, I usually instrumentality €5,000, for you, since it’s you, €3,000.’ And I was stunned and said, ‘What is happening?’ I said, ‘Doctor, what bash you mean €3,000? I don’t person that overmuch wealth connected me.’ ‘Tomorrow then,’ helium told me, ‘so I tin besides wage the others inside.’”

“He crushed me! I was stressed. My thoughts were however to find that money. Then I felt ashamed due to the fact that I couldn’t person that wealth and past I wondered, wherever americium I? In a backstage hospital? In a nationalist one?” said Mrs. Sofia, revealing that wrong she kept thinking: “And if I don’t springiness them? And if this happens? And if that happens? And if thing happens to him?”

“I reached my limits. I person struggled since February 6 with my husband, helium has aggregate wellness problems and the past 1 was the heart. Not agelong agone we amputated a leg. After everything, aft rehabilitation centers, we person bled financially, I cannot ideate besides uncovering wealth and being stressed to wage a doc who is already being paid,” she emphasized.

Mrs. Sofia has been with her hubby since the property of 22 and says: “I don’t privation to suffer him for anything, that’s wherefore I combat with bony and nail. We are one. He (the doctor) realized it from the archetypal moment. Whatever the situation, I was ever determination for him.

As for what the doc said erstwhile she handed him the marked banknotes: “Alright Sofia, I’m going to springiness them to the others too.” She asked him if helium wanted to number them and helium replied, “No, I spot you.” Shortly afterward, helium was arrested.