A 41-year-old managed to he cheats repeatedly unsuspecting citizenspublishing a house rental ad in Agia Paraskevi on the internet.

When the prospective tenants gave the advance, then the 41-year-old became “smoke”.

The investigation into the case was initiated following citizen complaints, according to which from June 2023, person posing as a lawyer, he was deceiving them under the pretext of renting an apartment owned by him in Agia Paraskevi.

The defendant posted relevant posts on websites for renting and selling real estate and after was contacting prospective tenants-victims, he was extracting sums of money from them as an advance payment of monthly rent, under the pretext of binding the agreement.

To achieve this, drew up a residential lease agreement which he posted on the website of A.A.D.E., however, after the payment of the money, he proceeded to terminate the lease so that he could proceed with a new statement with his next victim.

In fact, as a reason for not being able to move into his apartment proposed the issuance of an auction order or family injunctions, promising to return the amount of money paid.

From the preliminary investigation to date, it emerged that the accused, in -31- cases of fraud that have been solved, he has extracted a total of -127,623- euros from his victims, returning to some of them the amount of money of -31,750- euros.

The case filed against him for fraud, committed and attempted, professional and consequential, insult, extortion and threat, was submitted to the competent prosecuting authority.