Hundreds of criminals “changed” their faces and identities through the huge circuit of illegal Hellenizations, which operated undisturbed for 8 years, with tentacles in police stations and services, which was revealed by the systematic investigation of the Internal Affairs of the Greek Police.
Some of these criminals were even arrested in EU countries for participating in large drug trafficking circuits. Among the “customers” of the circuit and 2 wanted by Interpol with a red ad, one for drugs and the other for homicide.
At the same time, the “client” of the circuit is said to be the man of Albanian origin who was killed with a silencer at a gas station at 181 Thivon Street in Nikaia on November 16. He was reportedly known to the authorities for drug cases and had obtained a fake ID from the circuit.
The factory in the form of corruption issued IDs, passports, diplomas with a tariff of 30,000-40,000 € and sold 3,000 documents with revenues of 5,000,000 €. A total of € 600,000 was confiscated from the investigations.
The methodology of the circuit
They issued a forged document -> VAT, AMKA -> traveled to the EU, opened businesses and made contracts, contracts.
The forged documents that cost 30,000 euros, either had false data from non-existent persons or data from expatriates who lived permanently abroad or from false statements of loss of identity and from data of persons with Greek citizenship.
Raid on Departments
The incorruptibles of EL.AS. carried out a raid on the Security Departments of Aspropyrgos, Glyfada, Omonia, Kallithea, but also on a part of Viotia and proceeded to 9 arrests of police officers.
Police made a total of 20 arrests. The commander of the Security Department of West Attica is considered to be the mastermind of the circuit, while his wife, who works in the Identity Office of the police department, is also involved.
During the raid on the security department, the men of the internal affairs located a safe, where he hid 320,000 euros. The commander initially claimed that he had forgotten the code and when a wheel was used to open it, he justified the huge amount by saying that it was his uncle’s savings.
“We are facing police officers, who are proving to be inferior. “I asked the head of the Internal Affairs Service for the investigation to go to the end and for all those involved to be accountable to justice”, said in a statement the Minister of Civil Protection, Takis Theodorikakos.
From 2013, ie 8 years, the members of the circuit, undisturbedly provided fake IDs, passports and driving licenses, to dangerous criminals, with a heavy criminal record, who wanted at all costs to disappear their traces.
The investigations so far have established the involvement of a total of 34 police officers, an employee of the Ministry of Civil Protection, working in a registry office, while a lawyer and 8 citizens participated in the illegal activity.
Among the charges for which those involved are being prosecuted are the crimes of setting up and directing a criminal organization, bribery and facilitating illegal exit from the country.
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