What did he say to his victim who recognized him on Facebook and they met at the Chalandrio cemetery
A priest in a church in Vrilisia, Attica, was revealed to be a businessman from Patras, who was active in the trade of skins and who embraced Theia, after the “cannon” that weighed, leaving debts of about 1 million euros to suppliers and traders.
As pelop.gr reports, this man was ordained a priest, in an attempt to disappear his traces and continue his life, however, the persistence of one of his victims led to his identification through the internet. For the shoe dealer from Thessaloniki who had made it his life’s goal to find the man who disappeared from the face of the earth overnight and with him the thousands of euros he owed, “Resurrection” came when he typed the former businessman’s name on Facebook. To his surprise, he recognized in the face of Rasoforo, the man he had been looking for for 14 whole years!
“At one point he even went so far as to threaten that if we didn’t send him merchandise, he would send us back the old ones as well. We’re talking, he also had audacity…” said the Northern Hellenic businessman, speaking to the newspaper “Peloponnisos tis Diuritas”, revealing that now, with the assistance of his lawyer Anthoulas Anasoglou, his former partner and current clergyman recognized his debt and agreed to its repayment.
“He started giving me 200 euros every month with all his might, but the amount owed amounts to 57,000 euros. He owned a men’s shoe store. I was one of those who was “treated” better. In one morning we heard that a merchant from Patras disappeared and with the help of a relative became a priest. After a few months we realized that he was the person we were working with.”
According to this man, who for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous, the cooperation with the former businessman from Patras came about through a representative, while he himself met him only once. “At some point I had come to Patras with my father to meet him and he presented himself to me as a good family man. We drove his car to the school to pick up his little daughter. I suspect that they have messed with the dealer as well. It’s not a simple matter,” he says.
The Archdiocese of Athens did not investigate the complaints, with its representative stating that “at the moment there is nothing reprehensible and neither do we have anything in our hands that would make an accusation against him”.
The lawyer of the victim, Anthoula Anasoglou, speaking to the newspaper, revealed that now the Patronus rasophoro is committed to the payment of specific money. “We talked and talked again and made a private agreement, which recognizes how much he should pay monthly. He was bound by a debt acknowledgment agreement, which at any time we see that this man has something to his name – he receives a larger sum, inherits some property, etc. – we can go ahead and negotiate the amount he owes to my principal.” says.
As Mrs. Anasoglou pointed out, “now he shows a maximum interest on his own and has become more consistent. Besides, when you make a private agreement, which renews a debt, if something happens, you start a lawsuit with the current date, otherwise if something is left in perpetuity, you are in a vacuum and if he wants, he never pays you.”
The appointment and “confession” at the cemetery
After locating the clergyman, a father of six children, who belongs to the Archdiocese of Athens, the merchant from Northern Greece, without wasting time, contacted him and after pressure managed to meet in person. “When I went to see him in Athens, I didn’t think he would be the same. In the photo I saw on Facebook, I thought it was his relative, who helped him become a priest, because after all, I had seen him once,” says the victim, describing the moments before the meeting.
The appointment was made at a cemetery in Chalandri. As people close to the merchant had reported to the newspaper, after the matter was revealed, the priest “confessed” to him that “because he wears the rasa, he will necessarily have to tell him the truth, that he is the man he is looking for, but he had problems, he cannot give him all the money he asks for, he will cut something from the amount and in the next 10 to 20 years he will give it.”
In fact, as the businessman from Northern Greece says, initially the cleric denied that he embezzled the amount of money, telling him: “I didn’t take money from you.” “I say ‘what did you get?’ “They were goods” he told me and I replied “how are goods made, aren’t they money?” Annoyed by the communication the victim sought, he did not hesitate to threaten him, that he would report him to the Police for “blackmail”.
In 2012, the priest was appointed vicar of the Holy Trinity of Petropolis until 2021, when he took over as temporary vicar in a parish in Vrilissia.
