Exclusive photos: Here's how V. Stamati escaped!

The room pictured is the one at Dromokaiteio mental institution from where Vicky Stamati escaped after being held in custody since April 2012 for money laundering. Proto Thema photographed the balcony from where she left the hospital at dawn on Thursday mroning. Her room was on the ground floor. The balcony door had bars that she managed to break open.

Stamati, married to ex-defence minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos had applied for

Inside the room where she lived are photos of her life that she collected from the press as well as her writing on the doors and walls of the room:

Guards entered her room at 6.30 a.m. on Thursday and realized that she wasn't there. It is still unknown as to whether she had help in escaping. She left a note on her bed giving reasons for her escape, but its contents have yet to be revealed.