The shipowners’ family’s ultimatum to the 75-year-old foreman to leave the house where he had been placed and his dismissal from the company a few days earlier were apparently the cause of the triple assassination of the owner. of shipping company Maria Karnesi, general director Antonis Vlassakis and ship captain Ilias Koukoularis – at the company’s offices in Glyfada, south of Athens, on Monday, before committing suicide.