The man, a former municipal finance inspector at two Athens municipalities, had been convicted to three life sentences for embezzling roughly €9 million
A fugitive disguised as a monk, who had been convicted to three-life sentences on embezzlement charges, was arrested on Mount Athos in northern Greece this week after being on the run for eight years.
The 48-year-old man, who was arrested on Monday in Karyes, the capital of the Greek Orthodox monastic community, had been charged with embezzling roughly €9 million while working as a financial inspector of revenue and expenditure at the municipalities of Dafni and Hymettus in Athens between 1995 and 2002. He was sentenced in absentia on 13 counts of fraud, forgery, embezzlement and other crimes.
He was expected to appear before a prosecutor in Thessaloniki on Tuesday.
Mount Athos, a World Heritage Site, is a self-governed monastic state and is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries.