Chris Soteriou says his ex-wife – who plotted his attempted murder – is transferring property to her family from prison to stop him from collecting any money she owes him. Vicky Soteriou is in jail after she arranged for her lover Ari Dimitrakis to stab her then husband in 2010 following his 44th birthday in Fitzroy. A judge subsequently ­ordered her to pay her ex-husband $2.4 million in civil ­damages. Mr Soteriou alleges in court documents he and his ex-wife jointly held a 25 per cent share in a property in Plenty Rd, Reservoir, until June last year. The writ alleges Vicky, her parents Dimitrios and Maria Skarlatos, and her sister Theodora Skarlatos – with the ­co-operation of Thornbury lawyer John Yianoulatos – contrived to improperly transfer her share. The statement of claim says the transfer was not done “with love and affection” as specified, and was “bogus and a sham”. “The real motive for parties executing the transfer was to deprive the plaintiff of his legal entitlement to an interest in the land,” it says. He has launched County Court proceedings alleging his former partner, Vicky, gifted her share of a house in Reservoir to her parents and sister to keep it from him.

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