A serious complaint about a location in Attica that was allegedly operating as a medical clinic inside a villa has been brought to light by MEGA. A woman describes what she claims her husband experienced when he sought help from a man who presented himself as a specialist in holistic medicine and allegedly proposed plasmapheresis treatments at a cost of up to €6,000 per session.
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“I’ve brought another machine that cleans the blood,” the fake doctor said
According to the complaint, the individual claimed to hold a degree from Honolulu and received patients inside a villa, with no visible indication — as the woman describes — that a licensed medical practice was operating on the premises. Various machines were allegedly present, including one that was presented to them as capable of “cleansing” the blood.
“I asked, ‘what kind of doctor is he?’ and my husband said, ‘a specialist internist.’ There was no sign, nothing indicating it was a legitimate clinic. He told my husband, ‘I’ve also brought another machine that cleans the blood. A session costs €6,000, but for you I’ll charge €2,000 per visit,'” the patient’s wife told MEGA.
The complaint about the clinic inside a home — “He had brainwashed him”
This particular case is not related to the Karneadou clinic that has been at the center of the investigation into the death of Giorgos Mazonakis. However, the woman says she recognized striking similarities between what her own family had experienced and what was later revealed about that case. “I said to my husband, ‘these things he’s saying don’t add up — he’s going to clean your blood inside someone’s house? What on earth is this?’ He had completely brainwashed him,” the complainant added.
As she describes it, her husband had suffered from chronic health problems and visited this individual seeking help. After hearing what he reported following his first visit, she began to have serious doubts.
“He had turned his home into an illegal clinic — we understand that now, but we didn’t know it at the time. In the back rooms, there were machines. He sat my husband down at one of them, attached electrodes to his hands and head, and had him stand barefoot on some magnets. He told me the man spent four hours ‘reading’ him and concluded that he had childhood trauma that needed to be addressed, that he could cure him, that his blood was contaminated, that he had too many toxins and needed to be cleansed.”
€6,000 per plasmapheresis session
According to the woman’s testimony, a proposal then followed for treatment using a machine that was supposedly going to “cleanse” the blood. The initial price quoted was €6,000 per session, though her husband was allegedly offered a “special” rate of €2,000. “He told him yes, that it cleanses the blood — we didn’t know what it did back then, we had no idea what plasmapheresis even was — and that this session is extremely expensive, it costs €6,000, but for you I’ll take €2,000 per visit.”
The woman then decided to visit the premises herself to see firsthand what was happening.
“There was nothing — not a single sign indicating it was a legitimate clinic. And he started telling us that conventional medicine is now dead, that the doctors of the future treat patients holistically, addressing the soul first and the body second.”
How the memory came flooding back
For years, she says, she had put the experience behind her. But when information about the death of Giorgos Mazonakis began to emerge and she heard the term “holistic medicine” again, the memories of what had happened to her husband came rushing back.
“I had completely erased him from my mind. But ever since Mazonakis died, we were all in shock, and as I started hearing every day about everything those people were doing at that clinic — when I heard the words ‘holistic doctor,’ it was like lights switched on in my head. The moment I heard ‘I’ll cure you, I have a machine that reads you, I’ll tell you it’s all about the soul, the plasmapheresis machine, your blood has toxins’ — I connected all the dots.”
She explains that at the time, she believed she was simply dealing with someone trying to extract money from vulnerable people. Today, she says she sees what happened in a very different light — and says she is ready to testify before the relevant authorities about everything she knows.
“Back then, I considered him a con artist and a charlatan who just wanted money, without realizing the danger of the situation and what those machines could actually do to a person — I didn’t know. But now that I’ve heard everything, I realize: I saved my husband back then.”
This testimony now raises new questions about whether other locations existed where similar practices and treatments were being offered. Whether what is being alleged is connected to a broader network of activity remains to be investigated by the competent authorities.
