Shock Claim Over Fake Doctor and €6,000 Plasma Treatment

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A woman has described how a doctor who presented himself as a specialist in holistic medicine allegedly operated an illegal clinic inside a villa in Attica, charging thousands of euros for treatments including plasma exchange.

Speaking to Greek broadcaster MEGA, the woman said her husband, who had longstanding health problems, visited the man seeking medical help. She said the alleged practitioner claimed to hold a medical degree from Honolulu and told them that “classical medicine has now died.”

According to the woman, the man received patients inside a villa with no visible sign indicating that a legal medical practice operated there. She said the premises contained various machines, including one that he claimed could “clean” the blood.

“I said, ‘What kind of doctor is he?’ He told me, ‘A specialist physician.’ There was no sign saying it was a legal medical practice. He told him, ‘I’ve brought another machine that cleans the blood.’ The session costs €6,000, but I’ll charge you €2,000 each time,” the woman told MEGA.

Woman claims villa had been converted into an illegal clinic

The case does not concern the medical practice on Karneadou Street that has come under investigation in connection with the death of Giorgos Mazonakis. However, the woman said she later recognised similarities between her family’s experience and reports emerging from that case.

She said her husband became convinced by the alleged practitioner’s claims after a lengthy examination involving various machines.

“He had turned the house into an illegal clinic. That’s how we understand it now; we didn’t know it then. In the back rooms, he had machines. He sat my husband on one of them, attached electrodes to his hands and head, and he stood barefoot on magnets.”

According to the woman, the alleged practitioner spent four hours examining her husband and then told him that he had childhood trauma, a high level of toxins in his blood and needed treatment.

“He told him he would make him well, that his blood was contaminated, that he had many toxins and that he would have to clean them.”

€6,000 claimed cost for each plasma exchange session

The woman said the alleged practitioner subsequently recommended treatment using a machine that he claimed would “clean” her husband’s blood.

She said the practitioner quoted €6,000 for each session but offered her husband a reduced price of €2,000.

“We didn’t know what it did. We didn’t even know what plasma exchange was. He said the session was very expensive, €6,000, but he would charge him €2,000 each time.”

The woman then visited the villa herself to see what was happening.

She said the premises still had no visible sign indicating that it operated as a licensed medical practice. She also recalled the man telling them that conventional medicine had become obsolete.

“He started telling us that conventional medicine had now died and that doctors of the future treat the patient holistically, first treating the soul and then the body.”

Mazonakis case brought the experience back

The woman said she had largely forgotten the experience until the death of Greek singer Giorgos Mazonakis and the subsequent public discussion about holistic medicine.

She said hearing the term “holistic doctor” again prompted her to connect the reports with what her husband had experienced.

“When I heard ‘holistic doctor’, it was as if lights switched on in my head. When I heard ‘I will make you well, I have the machine that reads you’ and that the plasma exchange machine would remove toxins from your blood, I put everything together.”

At the time, she said, she viewed the man simply as someone trying to take money from vulnerable people. She now says she understands the potential risks differently and is prepared to provide information to the authorities.

“At the time, I considered him a fraud and a charlatan who wanted money, without realising how dangerous the situation was and what these machines could do to a person. I didn’t know about them. Now that I have heard all this, I realise it. I escaped it then with my husband.”

The woman’s account raises questions about whether other locations may have offered similar practices and treatments. Authorities will have to establish whether the allegations form part of a wider activity.

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