Akis Tsochatzopoulos

Viki Stamati, the wife of jailed former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, provided four hours of additional testimony to a prosecutor Tuesday but her deposition contained no new revelations or leads about corruption allegations against her husband.

Vicky Stamati, wife of former defence minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos, being held at Dromokaitio Psychiatric Institution after her escape has requested to testify before prosecutor Grigoris Peponis.

Vicky Stamati is back at Dromokaitio mental facility while the woman believed to have helped her escape is now being questioned by the police along with her daughter. Sources state that she may be tried as an accomplice for offering aid to Stamati.

The wife of jailed former defence minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos was found sitting on a bench outside a church in Haidari, western Athens, on Friday afternoon, a day after she went missing from the Dromokaiteio mental health facility, state television reported.

Vicky Stamati, the wife of jailed former socialist minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos who escaped from the Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital yesterday was found and arrested by the Greek police on Friday.

According to preliminary information, the police arrested the woman at Panagitsa Church located in the area of Haidari, a western suburb of Athens.

A huge manhunt is on to locate the wife of jailed former socialist minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos, Vicky Stamati, who escaped from the Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital. The first investigations into her disappearance are centered around the laxity concerning the woman's surveillance at the mental facility and on claims circulating around the internet that her son, aged 7, is with her.

Jailed ex-Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos on Thursday appealed to his wife, Viki Stamati, to return to the mental health facility she escaped from earlier in the day.

Four correctional officers were arrested on Thursday in relation to the escape of Vicky Stamati, wife of the jailed former minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, from the Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital. The prison employees, who were responsible for guarding Stamati, will be taken before a prosecutor later on Thursday, while police continue searching for the fugitive.

Four prison guards in charge of guarding Viki Stamati, the spouse of jailed ex-Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos who escaped in the early hours of Thursday from a mental health facility, were arrested on the same day. All four were expected to face a local prosecutor on Thursday.

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.