Doctors released in Mazonakis probe as procedure rules questioned

World deathdoctorsTop News Doctors released in Mazonakis probe as procedure rules questioned Mazonakis 3 1536x878 Relevant News Doctors released in Mazonakis probe as procedure rules questioned 10 September 2026 Driver hits railing in Larnaca, cut free by Fire Service 10 September 2026 No breakthrough as Christodoulides, Erhurman meet again before New York 10 September 2026 newsroom 10 September 2026 FacebookXWhatsAppEmailPrintViber Two doctors questioned over the death of singer Giorgos Mazonakis, the internist who owns the Stem Cell clinic in Kolonaki and his wife, also a doctor, were released shortly before midnight on Wednesday after giving statements to authorities. The preliminary examination is continuing, with the prosecutorial investigation awaiting forensic findings to establish the circumstances of his death. Prosecutors have asked for more evidence to be gathered on both the circumstances of the singer’s death and the plasmapheresis procedure he was undergoing, investigators said. Under examination is whether the procedure followed the required framework, since plasmapheresis is required by law to be carried out by a haematologist in a public hospital, not in a private clinic. Timeline of the emergency Mazonakis went to the Stem Cell clinic at 11 Karneadou Street in Kolonaki on Wednesday afternoon for a scheduled plasmapheresis treatment, arranged the day before because of his heavy workload of professional commitments. When the venous catheter was inserted, he felt intense chest pain and suffered a cardiac arrest, based on the information that has emerged so far. Staff at the clinic called the National Centre for Emergency Care (EKAB) at 4.21pm to report the cardiac episode. An EKAB paramedic arrived by motorcycle seven minutes later, at 4.28pm, and immediately began CPR. An ambulance arrived shortly afterwards and took him to the nearest hospital on duty, Elpis, where he arrived at 4.45pm. Resuscitation efforts continued in the emergency department, but his condition proved irreversible, and his death was formally confirmed at 5.40pm. “He was white, completely white. He wasn’t breathing,” said one bystander in Kolonaki who watched him being carried to the ambulance. The doctors’ account Agapinos, the doctors’ lawyer, said the case’s outcome hinges on the forensic examination, which will need to establish whether there is any connection between Mazonakis’s death and the medical procedure he underwent. “If there’s no connection, there’s no criminal liability either,” he said. Asked whether there could be civil liability, he said that would require medical negligence, which he rejected. The doctor’s wife, a gynaecologist, is reported to have described the procedure to authorities. The clinic’s owner denied any involvement in the incident, according to reports, maintaining that his wife had full management of the practice, carried out the treatments and monitored patients. After their release Speaking outside Kypseli police station after the doctors were released, Agapinos said they had already been free to leave and were simply waiting for two employees to complete witness statements, with an on-site inspection still to come. He said the forensic findings remained the decisive factor, and called for the presumption of innocence to be respected while the investigation continued, arguing that people could not be presumed guilty any more than they could be presumed innocent before the process was complete. He described the couple as sharing the same professional premises, with the treatments carried out by the doctor he called an internist. Earlier: “the machines are legally registered” Earlier, arriving to give his own statement, Agapinos, who described the doctor and his wife as personal friends and said Mazonakis had been his wife’s patient, said: “We are talking about a completely legal practice with declared machines.” He said the equipment had been registered with the Athens Medical Association through his own law office. Police take over the investigation The Athens Security Sub-directorate has been assigned the investigation and the compilation of the case file into Mazonakis’s death, with Greece’s Organised Crime Prosecution Service expected to assist in establishing whether any criminal offences were committed. The clinic’s owner was the first to be called in for questioning, followed by his wife. Investigators are expected to take statements from everyone who had contact with the singer, both before and during his visit to the clinic and afterwards at Elpis Hospital. The case file will include records of the medical procedures carried out, along with the forensic findings expected once a post-mortem examination has been completed. The Stem Cell clinic The clinic describes itself, on its own website, as focused on combining medical science with new regenerative medicine technologies. It is headed by Dr Ilias Theodoropoulos, a doctor specialising in internal medicine with research experience in haematology who, per the same website, has dedicated his career to an integrated approach to health that combines scientific knowledge with modern therapeutic practices. The hospital’s statement In a statement, Elpis Hospital said Mazonakis, born in 1972, was brought in by EKAB ambulance at 4.45pm “without spontaneous breathing or pulse.” It said cardiopulmonary resuscitation was carried out according to protocol but was unsuccessful, and that his death was officially confirmed at 5.40pm. 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