Famous actor and football player among arrested members of Attica car theft gang

Among the arrested members of the group that stole cars in Attica is the famous actor and international football player Stathis Tavlaridis.

It is reported that the composition gang of car thieves consisted of a Greek actor (Ν. Γ.), who participated in one of the leading television series “Konstantinos and Eleni”, as well as a former international football player, Stathis Tavlaridis.

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“To dismantle the criminal organization, an organized police operation was carried out on Tuesday morning (14/3) by the Department for Combating Property Crimes, in collaboration with the Department for Combating Organized Crime of Crete, together with a special team from the Department of Weapons, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and other police groups, in the areas of Attica and Crete, during which six members of the organization were arrested, and two more people were added to the case materials,” – the Greek police said in a statement.

Investigators found that its members stole 40 cars and 2 motorcycles. 6 arrests were made, 18 vehicles and numerous parts were seized. According to ELASthe gang’s illegal profits exceeded 980,000 euros.

As noted in the statement ELAS, “The characteristic feature of their methodology is that they did not commit spontaneous thefts, but stole cars of a certain make, model and color, which each time perfectly matched the newly registered vehicles.”

The leader of the gang is considered to be the owner of the MVS CAR PAINT auto repair shop in Ano Liosia. He himself constantly went to the body shop of the organization, where he took care of its work and the development of their criminal activities.

Among the brands favored by the gang were Nissan, Mercedes, BMW, Peugeot, Jeep and other commercial models such as Smart and Toyota. In particular, the cars they stole were in particularly high demand on the market: MERCEDES models SLK and SMART, VOLKSWAGEN models GOLF, TOYOTA models CH-R and YARIS, PEUGEOT models 208, 2008 and 3008, FORD models FIESTA, FIAT model 500, BMW model GS 1250 R, OPEL models CROSSLAND, CITROEN models C3 and RENAULT models CAPTUR.

According to the police statement, members of the organization created and joined a criminal community with a specific structure, which was engaged in the theft of cars and motorcycles with particularly high market demand, with a specific modus operandi, in order to obtain illegal income.

To achieve their goal they performed various functions:

• The 35-year-old man, who held a leadership role, was the brains of the organization, and stolen vehicles were forged in the workshop of a factory owned by him. He supervised the actions of members of the organization, ensuring the receipt, storage and further disposal of dismantled parts and spare parts. In addition, they managed the cash flows that support the criminal organization’s activities, such as payments for vehicle dismantling and facility operating costs.
• The 32-year-old man acted directly under the lead member of the organization and played a key role in its activities, since he registered cars abroad and then sold counterfeit cars, receiving money for it,
• A 43-year-old member of the organization was setting up and operating a makeshift workshop in an abandoned building. It was he who received the stolen cars, hid them and organized their dismantling. Once the job was completed, he delivered the parts in closed trucks to the head of the criminal organization,
• The 29-year-old and 21-year-old men were involved in operational work and dismantled vehicles to meet the needs of the organization. To achieve their goal, they moved at night in various areas of Attica, looking for cars. After committing the theft, they drove them to neighboring streets or to their “den” so that they would not be found,
• The 51-year-old man, in an open space with a high fence and a large double door, set up a workshop where he dismantled stolen cars. The lead participant used a van to sell car parts to interested parties.

During the searches carried out as part of the operation, the following were discovered and seized:

• -9- stolen cars,
• -9- vehicles whose legal origin has been verified,
• -1- stolen motorcycle,
• -8- vehicle frames (chassis) with license plates, their labels and stickers removed,
• -8- car engines,
• fake license plates,
• many license plates of foreign countries,
• fake stamps,
• radio frequency interference device (jammer),
• device for diagnosing the car processor,
• connectors connected to the car’s OBD,
• especially large number of auto parts,
• many mobile phones,
• a number of documents relating to vehicles arriving from abroad,
• number of car keys and passport keys,
• laptop computers,
• many SIM cards and USB and micro SD storage media,
• 1.332 grams of cannabis,
• clothing worn during the theft,
• -2- weapons (pistol and revolver), -3- air pistols and -1- copy of a revolver,
• -11- knives of different sizes,
• -100- rounds
• -1730- euro.

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