Mystery continues to surround the disappearance of 62-year-old Manolis Drikos whose fate has been missing since January 7. According to the data so far, the man’s car was abandoned in Liosia, in the area of Larissa Station, while the keys were on the engine. His mobile phone was also found inside the vehicle.

The specific spot, according to “Light at the Tunnel” which highlighted the case, at the junction of Karditsis and Almiros streets, is a dark deserted street, with no cameras or shops.

Speaking to the show’s camera, a resident of the area claimed that he had been seeing the black Audi, unknown to him, in the area for at least 20 days. He noticed that one of its windows was broken and there were shuffled papers inside. However, he never saw the owner or who brought it to the scene. As other witnesses stated, at first they didn’t pay attention because a lamp shop operates very close by and assumed it was a customer’s car.

His brother spoke of a large sum of money, about 700,000 euros, that he had, probably in his house, after selling the property. When he managed to enter the apartment, he found himself in front of a scene reminiscent of a movie thriller: empty rooms, valuable paintings, and family heirlooms gone, the recorder from the 48 (!) security cameras gone. There were strange traces on the furniture, while an ashtray with cigarette butts raises even more questions – Manolis didn’t smoke…

“In the house,e the valuables were flying…”

“On January 24, a gentleman called me and informed me that my brother had disappeared and that tenants in the apartment building were complaining about a stench in his apartment. From the Police in Glyfada I was told that since January 7 his car has been found abandoned near Liossias, “he says.

As he says his brother is sick and this is due to the overprotection of their parents who had given him various properties so that he could live decently. “He used to go to the bank every day and withdraw 20,000. Presumably, that money was in the house. To get in, I called the fire department. No doors were forced. I’m guessing someone got in with the keys. I combine that with the fact that his car was found with the keys on the engine and the cell phone inside. I asked for forensics to come in because there were marks on the furniture.”

“Recently a girl of Romanian origin had been in and out of the house cleaning for him. I don’t know what the police are doing…” he concludes. The missing man’s lawyer, Stathis Konstantopoulos, revealed to Tunnel that the 62-year-old was talking openly about his money, despite warnings.

“This man was alone, he had no family or friends. He had me as his lawyer and we had a formal, professional relationship, nothing more. Last message he sent me via Viber on New Year’s Eve to wish me well. From then on we had no other contact. The next week after the Lights, his tenant in Glyfada called me in the morning and told me that two policemen went from there and were looking for him, “ said his lawyer.

According to the lawyer, although he had warned him not to touch the money from the bank, the missing man insisted on “picking it up”. “Someone saw him from the bank. That kind of money can’t be ‘picked up’ in a day. He went several times. It’s not like they entered the house when he was away because there was no forced entry. They entered with keys.”

“He had told me about a Stella from Baribobi…”

“We have known each other since 1985 with the family. I received a message from Manolis on New Year’s Day or the next day for happy birthday, I called him the day after and he never replied. On the 18th I think his brother called me and informed me that he had disappeared. I know why, of course. He was proclaiming everywhere that he had sold the factory property and had received a lot of money. Since 2014 when his father died, he had been boasting that he owned a factory in Petrou Ralli. At first, he started with a price of 1,200,000 and then it came down to 700,000-800,000. When the sale took place he stopped calling, came back in the fall, and told me about the sale. He had mentioned that he wanted to build a door with 5,000 euros to put the money in the house, he didn’t want it in the bank,” says the friend.

“I was saddened to learn of his demolition but I fear his end will be very dramatic. He had no friends, no money, and he didn’t enjoy the life he could do with that money.”

The mystery woman who accompanied him before he was lost

Light at the Tunnel also spoke to a tenant of an apartment owned by the missing man. He had last seen him on December 30 when he went to collect the rent and make new contracts.

“I gave him the money corresponding to the rent and the other money he had asked for as a deposit to spend the holidays because he said he had no money. But the following period his car was missing for many days and on the 7th of the month my partner came from the police station in Omonia and asked her if she had his phone number because they had found his car in that area. The next day I called his lawyer because I didn’t know anyone else to inform about what happened.”

“One day he was saying alpha and the next day he was saying beta. He had a lot of cameras in the apartment and downstairs in the entryway. By December, they had foils upstairs and had made his house a fortress,” he concludes.

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