The police officers of the Alexandroupolis Security Sub-Directorate arrested a criminal organization that was defrauding citizens via the internet.
Specifically, the details of seven members of the organization were identified, against whom a criminal case was filed, for the establishment and participation in a criminal organization, fraud by complicity and serially, and money laundering. These are four Greek citizens, aged 38, 41, 45 and 54, and three Greek citizens, aged 30, 33 and 60.
Members of the organization posted advertisements for the sale of vehicles on various websites, at particularly low prices, with the aim of attracting as many potential buyers as possible.
Subsequently, after telephone communications with prospective buyers, during which they presented various false facts to them as true, they persuaded them to deposit various amounts of money into the bank accounts of the organization's members as a down payment for the purchase of the vehicle and in some cases the entire amount of money they had agreed to for the purchase.
After the citizens deposited the agreed-upon money into their bank accounts, the perpetrators cut off all communication with them and the delivery of the advertised vehicle never took place.
A characteristic element of their actions is that they used numerous bank accounts and mobile phone numbers of fictitious individuals, as well as avoiding direct contact with the victims, in order to make it difficult to locate and arrest them.
From the investigations so far, it has emerged that from 2010 to the present, members of the organization have managed to defraud a total of 130 people in various regions of the country and extort from them over 250,000 euros.
In searches carried out in homes owned by the three perpetrators, aged 60, 38 and 30, with the assistance of police officers from the Tripoli Security Department, the following were found and seized: 14 bank books, 5 deposit slips, 3 mobile phones, 1 tablet, the sum of 1,100 euros, 2 vehicle licenses, 2 cash withdrawal cards and numerous handwritten notes indicating vehicle purchases and sales.
It is noted that all perpetrators have repeatedly reported fraud to the police authorities in the past.
The case file filed against them will be submitted to the Prosecutor of the Alexandroupolis Criminal Courts, while investigations are continuing by the Alexandroupolis Security Sub-Directorate, to investigate the possible commission of other similar illegal acts by the members of the organization.
Source: enikos.gr
