All 6 defendants were held in custody for the sale of church relics to the Holy Monastery at Cavernbetween them and the abbot And his monk assistant.
The abbot and the other five defendants for the sacred relics in Kalavryta were taken to the Corinthian Court of Justice at 11am on Thursday, September 11 and began their apologies.
Late at night it became known that with the consent of an investigator and prosecutor, all 6 were found to be temporary detainees and would be brought to prison.
At the same time, revelations about the “sacred circuit” in Kalavryta, which tried to sell the abbot to sell the monastery’s relics for a large sum of money, continues.
According to journalist Vassilis Lambropoulos in the MEGA Central Newsletter on the Kalavryta circuit “there was intention, in records of the FBI secret police officers, the abbot wanted to sell frescoes of the Holy Monastery.
They are frescoes of 433 square meters that were given 250,000 euros for their renovation, maintenance, repair.
The work had been completed in 2024 and wanted to sell a portion of these frescoes to strangers. “
“They would give the image of collapse, while in practice it was removing the frescoes and selling them.”
At the same time, “the research done by ELAS was completed. On the plot near the Holy Monastery of the Great Cave that the statue of the goddess Artemis was located, but nothing has been found. ” Investigations are ongoing.
The phone call, “Tariff” and “Intermediaries”
The “Sacred Scandal of the Kalavryta” was revealed by the informant phone call on July 29th. In this, all the information was given to the authorities: names, phones, but also the properties of suspects.
“I know four people who want to sell ancient, there is a German who wants to buy them. Note a name and mobile phone, he has a pawnshop in Aigaleo, the other is said … and he has a business in Kalavryta, his brother is a monk in Kalavryta. “
At that time, secret police officers got a job, who, in addition to the surveillance, also attended the intermediaries. They brought the pawnbrokers to contact the abbot, who until then was a person above all suspicion.
The abbot demanded 20,000 euros for each image and 50,000 euros for each Gospel.
Valuable relics do not belong to the monastery’s property, with police investigating their origin. According to the abbot to the police, the Byzantine icons belonged to his family.
One of them, however, is allegedly stolen from Sparta, with police looking for the exact origin of the rest of the relics, as well as a statue of the goddess Artemis who, according to reports, reportedly wanted to sell for 10m euros.