According to preliminary information, a 46-year-old resident of Heraklion and two Albanians created a criminal organization for “crediting”. The amount of interest for a 5,000th loan could be 2,000 euros. Two other detainees, 45-year-old and 24-year-old residents of Heraklion, involved in the case, ran a cafeteria in the eastern suburbs, allegedly engaged in large-scale money […]
Tag: Greek Police
Police operation to eliminate the criminal network "traffickers"15 arrests
The Athens police department is conducting a major operation in various parts of Attica to eliminate the criminal network, whose members were engaged in the transportation of illegal immigrants and the trade in forged documents. According to ΕΛΑΣ15 people have been arrested so far. A detailed report is expected after the completion of the police […]
More female police officers in Greece
Increasing the number of female police officers who are actively involved in the work of the Greek police ΕΛ.ΑΣis significant compared to previous years. A typical example is the Glyfada Police Department, where, since 2019, a young but experienced woman has been in charge. Moreover, as he writes iefimerida.gr, currently about 1/3 of the department […]
23 thousand euros gave the old woman to phone scammers
Phone scams carried out by various experts in an attempt to deceive unsuspecting citizens and fraudulently take large sums of money from them have reached a new level. In this case, we will talk about members of a criminal group operating in the northern suburbs of Attica and inflicting a “blow” mainly on the inhabitants […]
Volos: drugs were hidden in a landfill, a large-scale police operation in a gypsy settlement
Large quantities of heroin and cannabis were hidden in a dump near the Roma camp in Volos, and six people were arrested by the police. Drug traffickers from Neapolis (Volos) were transporting them in large quantities, police from the Volos Narcotics Division found out after a thorough investigation. After receiving the information and several days […]
Greek police create animal welfare department
A presidential decree was issued, presented by the Minister of Citizens’ Protection Panagiotis Theodorikakos, on the establishment of an animal welfare department in the police. The goal is to reduce the incidence of animal cruelty. The document aims to reduce the sad cases of cruelty and killing of animals observed in Greece. The presidential decree […]
Handcuffed robbers who hunted in Thessaloniki
A video appeared in the hands of law enforcement agencies, the footage of which depicts the actions of members of a criminal organization, robbers, completely “cleansing” houses in Northern Greece. Surveillance video from one of the dwellings they broke into shows two criminals with hoods on their heads, black gloves on their hands and a […]
Rampant crime in the era of quarantine
According to Greek law enforcement agencies, in 2020, during the long lockdown period, 2,541 robberies were committed by 37 gangs who carried out these criminal acts, while receiving booty of 2.5 million euros. The majority of organized crime groups committed street robberies (47% of the total), mainly against pedestrians, car drivers, food deliveries, minors and […]