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Controversial businessman Laurentios Laurentiadis remains in jail despite his attempts to be released for various reasons. It turns out that several months before being sent to detention, he had not lost his influence and even organized an attack on a businessman from Crete.

For this purpose, he had bought a SIM card, registered in the name of a citizen of Bangladesh, to be able to communicate with the perpetrators of the bombing in June 2012, when a package of explosives exploded in the hands of a man, aged 43, a former associate of Laurentiadis in the pharmaceutical company Alapis, and wounded him severely.

According to the police investigation, he was near the scene of the attack, giving instructions over the phone. The examined calls reveal that, while in custody, Laurentiadis had talked with his collaborators in Singapore and Switzerland and ordered them to open offshore companies in Hong Kong and to buy property in Bali. Judicial sources state that the talks about the organization of the bombing might be hiding the secret of the whereabouts of the 500 million euro drained from Proton Bank.

"To Vima" newspaper has published the case file composed in connection with the attack. The victim of the bombing was seriously injured. Seven people are on trial in connection with it.

The bomb was in a pot which an employee in a flower shop had left with a note: "We have forgotten each other. I hope you will like my gift. Call me if you want." Some of the defendants were involved in old cases of robbery, arms trafficking, racketeering and other crimes.

The police began unraveling the case by listening to the calls on the mobile phone from which a young woman had called the flower shop and ordered the delivery of the pot. The participants in the criminal group had made the mistake of using the personal phone of one of those involved in the implementation of the "conspiratorial" calls.

A few clues have revealed Laurentios Laurentiadis’ involvement. The victim of the attack mentioned him in his testimony. He said that he had had a close relationship with Laurentiadis’ female relative whom he had met on Facebook. The businessman, aged 43, said he had been with the particular woman a few hours before the attack.

He also pointed out that, in the autumn of 2011, he had tried to cooperate with Laurentiadis through the pharmaceutical company Alapis. He also added that their relationship had worsened after April 2012 because of negative evaluations of Laurentiadis’ associates regarding his father. Moreover, a few days before the attack, the victim had been afraid for his life and moved from one place of lodging to another for that purpose.

The analysis of the calls showed that the specific mobile phone belonged to Laurentiadis although it had been registered in the name of Faqir Salam from Bangladesh. From it he had sent three messages to one of the men who had delivered the bomb during the attack.

The antenna of this phone transmitted a signal from a location close to the place of the attack. In June 2012, Laurentiadis was still free and was sent into custody in December of that year in connection with the case of Proton Bank.

The head of his security was a relative of one of the seven accused and on friendly terms with others of them.

One of his bodyguards was spotted near the scene of the attack shortly after its implementation.

Other members of Laurentiadis’ security team had called the 43-year-old victim of the attack at least 50 times.

Laurentiadis’ collaborators say that he has nothing to do with the attack. The police are paying particular attention to the data, according to which the once-powerful banker had used one mobile phone only to communicate with citizens of Singapore and Switzerland with whom he had talked about the establishment of offshore companies, purchase of property and transfer of money to Bali, and about other financial transactions to accounts in Panama.

Currently the police are focusing their investigation on two bombings at the homes of a court clerk and an inspector of the Bank of Greece who were involved in the investigation of the scandal in Proton Bank.