The police of Florina, following an organized operation, arrested a 59-year-old foreigner for telephone scams against unsuspecting citizens.

Specifically, two accomplices of the 59-year-old, a man and a woman, called yesterday at noon to an 83-year-old in Florinathe man pretending to be a hospital doctor and the and the woman’s 83-year-old daughter. She was falsely told that her daughter needed immediate hospitalization and surgery, for which a large sum of money was required.

During their conversation, they directed the elderly woman to hand over the money to the 59-year-old, who went to her house, with the 83-year-old handing over seventeen gold pounds worth of money, about 8,000 euros.

A police operation was immediately organized, during which the man was located and arrested, in whose possession the pounds attributed to the 83-year-old woman, a knife with a blade length of eleven centimeters and a mobile phone were found and confiscated.

In the context of the ongoing investigation, it emerged that the 59-year-old in an identical way succeeded and deceived an 89-year-old resident of the city of Ioannina, from whom he obtained the sum of 4,800 euros, while in the city of Florina there were five other attempts to defraud citizens, from whom they tried to extract a total of 123,000 euros, but without succeeding.

The Florina Security Department is continuing investigations into the identification of the two accomplices, while their participation in other similar criminal acts is being examined. The arrested person with the case file filed against him was taken to the prosecutor of Plimmeliodike Florina, against whom a case file was filed, for the crime of fraud and violation of the weapons legislation.