“I used to be yelling, crying and telling them I'm going to harm myself” declares Ifigenia Layou – Describes her six nightmarish days till she was launched
Wednesday night, March 6, 2024, and on the gasoline station in Patisia, Ifigenia Laiou is on the workplace counting the day's cash to shut the money register. The door all of a sudden opens and three plainclothes policemen burst in. “Cease and get off the pc. Give us the cash, deliver your bag and your cell phone.” The policemen's phrases freeze the clerk, who earlier than she will be able to communicate follows the policemen's orders. “I attempted to remain calm and work with them. I believed that the earlier they end, the earlier I’ll go dwelling,” the 27-year-old will say.
Ifigenia Laiou, who was launched to the TV viewers via the style actuality present “My Type Rocks”, was in custody accused of involvement within the gasoline and drink fraud ring that was dismantled just a few days in the past for tax evasion of 1.2 million euros solely by February 2024. The previous actuality TV star was held in custody for six days till she pleaded responsible and was launched with out parole after it was decided she had no involvement within the ring. “It was a really unhealthy expertise, which I’ll take a very long time to overlook. Once they arrested me and instructed me you’ll sit till Monday, I misplaced it. I began shouting, crying, I instructed them I’ll damage myself”, she’s going to say after her journey. From the places of work of the 14th ground of the Financial Police in GADA, after two nights, he was taken to the renovated detention cells of the Police Division in Zefyri, as solely males are held within the cells of the seventh ground of the GADA police headquarters on Alexandras Avenue.
“I stayed in GADA for 2 nights and the police did this at no cost as a result of I used to be not effectively psychologically. Then I went to Zefyri the place the detention facilities had been renovated and ladies might keep. There I used to be bitten by bedbugs and I used to be transferred to Agia Varvara till my apology. I modified three detentions in six days.”
Final Monday, she was taken to the interrogator and apologized, stating what she had been saying for the reason that first second of her arrest: “I’m harmless.”
As she acknowledged in her apology, till December 2023, when she rented an residence in Peristeri, she lived along with her dad and mom, whereas learning on the College of Western Attica, within the Division of Aesthetics and Cosmetology. Being in contact with the style trade from an early age, since her mom labored within the clothes trade, she remembers herself from the age of 3-4 attempting, altering, modifying and shaping her personal fashion. She opened a web based clothes retailer with a buddy. In 2023, she made a powerful entrance into the style actuality present. “I entered “My Type Rocks” to grow to be higher recognized, to study my on-line clothes retailer and to start out enterprise via Instagram.”
As she instructed the interrogator, in an effort to be self-sufficient, to cowl her bills and to not burden her dad and mom, she invested some small financial savings in a bodily clothes retailer in Ano Glyfada along with a buddy: “I hoped that this may achieve success via my very own little recognition that I had gained on account of my participation in a widely known actuality present. Sadly, the corporate had a number of prices, which I couldn’t cowl.” And departed.lagiou
In December 2023 and whereas she was a buyer on the gasoline station in Patisia, she noticed an commercial asking for an individual for the workplace and as a result of little acquaintance she had with the supervisor of the gasoline station, she gave her CV they usually took her for a job, the place she labored from early within the afternoon till the night.
“I used to be employed on the gasoline station as an workplace employee, with a wage of round 1,000 euros monthly. Basically my job concerned solely promoting merchandise inside the shop, reminiscent of engine oils, engine fluids, automotive fragrances and windshield wipers. I used to be additionally chargeable for offering invoices and receipts for the automotive wash, as there’s additionally a automotive wash on website,” she stated in her apology. So far as her involvement within the gasoline and drinks adulteration ring is anxious, she stated that till the time of the police raid on the gasoline station the place she labored, she knew nothing. “I used to be questioning why I’m in custody. I didn't know something and I couldn't know something, in spite of everything, about any legal acts talked about within the case file.”
For his half, the lawyer of Dimitris Zorbas reported to protothema.gr that “from the start, my consumer declared her innocence. After the reasons we gave in entrance of Mrs. Anakritria, she was launched with out restrictive situations, as her common perspective and the course of her life till immediately had been taken into consideration. He’s on the disposal of the Justice and eagerly awaits the exculpatory will.”
Now Ifigenia Laiou is getting ready to show the web page, depart behind the tough occasions she lived and get again on her ft, as she says. “It was a nightmare that I need to overlook. An expertise that I had very onerous.” From the gasoline station, Ifigenia prepares to return to the Glyfada boutique, making a brand new starting.
