A lawyer was sentenced to 4 years in prison for stealing 2 million euros from his client

34-year-old lawyer Giorgos Djangou was sentenced to four years in prison for a fraudulent scheme through which he obtained 2 million euros from his client, whom he was supposed to defend. The Larnaca court found the lawyer guilty on seven counts, including "money laundering" and "forgery of documents."

According to law enforcement information, Djangou had been friends with the victim for many years and enjoyed her trust. In July 2020, he registered a shell company in the UK using his brother’s data and the name of a prisoner convicted in Greece. On behalf of this company, he demanded 11 million euros from the client’s company for the re-equipment of containers.

When the company, as expected, did not pay, Djangou filed a lawsuit on behalf of the client against the client herself. In the documents, he specified his own fee — 2 million euros. Then he managed to freeze the client’s assets without informing her.

Besides this, the lawyer took 4,000 euros from the woman for an alleged accident claim and up to 7,000 euros for a defamation case — but did absolutely nothing on these cases.

The court stated that the lawyer betrayed trust and used his status for personal gain. At the same time, the court took into account that Djangou had no prior convictions and mitigated the sentence.