The ongoing investigation by police officers of the Property Crimes Department of the Thessaloniki Security Directorate and the analysis of the mode of action of the members of the criminal organization that dislocated him last February and was involved in vehicle thefts, leading to additional cases of illegal activity being solved.

From the investigation, it was found the four arrested (two of them already detained in the country’s detention facilities), during the period of time from January 2015 to January 2023; in addition to the 39 vehicle thefts, they carried out an additional 27 vehicle thefts from areas of Attica, Evia and Fthiotida, the value of which exceeds 210,000 euros, while the total loot of the ring exceeds 600,000 euros.

According to an announcement by EL.AS., the ring possessed the stolen vehicles either whole or as spare parts; since previously its members proceeded to their disassembly.

It also emerged that the 63-year-old alleged “brain” of the organization handed over one of the stolen vehicles to a 36-year-old citizen, the owner of a spare parts depot in the Pieria area, against whom a case file was filed for accepting the proceeds of crime.

The completed additional case file was submitted to the competent judicial authorities.