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Arta: They convinced an elderly woman to throw 10,000 euros from the balcony

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For the case, a woman, a citizen of Bulgaria, was identified, who was arrested and charged with participation in a criminal organization and fraud

The methodical investigation of the Arta Security Department led to the immediate detection of fraud, which took place in Arta at the expense of an elderly woman.

A foreigner, a citizen of Bulgaria, was identified for the case, who was arrested and charged with participation in a criminal organization and fraud.

The day before yesterday morning, a circuit active in fraud made its appearance in areas of Arta, through the realization surprise phone calls to unsuspecting citizens.

In particular, a member of the circuit, Frabused close relativewas asking for large sums of money, in order to either undergo surgery immediately, because he had allegedly been seriously injured in a traffic accident, or to avoid the consequences of the law, because he had caused a fatal traffic accident with a minor victim.

In one of the cases, 84 year old woman in the city of Arta she was convinced and according to the instructions, she threw from the balcony of her house a bag with the sum of 10,000 euros, which was received by an unknown woman, a member of the ring, who had undertaken to receive the money in cases where the criminal plan was successful.

After appropriate use of evidence, the police officers managed in a short time to discover the identity of the woman, of foreign origin, while three more cases of attempts to deceive citizens with the same methodology by the members of the ring were identified.

All the police services throughout the territory were informed about the search for the foreigner, as a result of which she was arrested yesterday (22-01-2023) in the early hours of the morning at the Promahona Serres border checkpoint by policemen of the Sidirokastro Police Department, while trying to escape to Bulgaria.

An amount of 40 euros, 25 Bulgarian leva and two mobile phones were found in her possession and confiscated.

The arrested woman was brought to the Arta Security Department and then taken to the Arta Misdemeanor Prosecutor.

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