After their apologies, the head and another employee of the DOU Chalkida involved in the case of blackmailing citizens were temporarily detained.

“I can’t take it anymore, I want to die, bury me here”: These are allegedly the first words of the director of the tax office of Chalkida when she passed the courthouse of the region shortly after 10:00 in the morning.

In addition to the telephone communications “burned” by the members of the ring of tax officials, a new video captures the moment when a businessman who is said to be the last one who had interacted with the members of the ring comes out of the tax office holding a file in his hand after having first delivered 10,000 euros. There had been another delivery of a corresponding amount to the administrator of the tax office, but then the gears had been put into operation and the “Incorruptibles” of the EL.AS had the members of the ring under their surveillance. It is pointed out that when the businessman came out of the tax office having handed over the money, then the operation of the police took place and arrested the 7 people allegedly involved in this particular case.

Speechless, the accused protagonists of the corruption ring of DOU Chalkida, crossed the threshold of the courts earlier.

The 7 arrested are facing a heavy indictment, which includes statements from businessmen who claim that they fell into the net of their criminal activity. At the same time, there are also telephone communications that burn them.

Among other things, they face charges of criminal organization, bribery, dereliction of duty, extortion, bribery and weapons on a case-by-case basis.

Visual documents capture the operator of the circuit, the moment she leaves the tax office holding in her hands a file that the manager gave her after blackmailing a businessman.

The magnitude of the corruption is reflected in what the businessman who was forced to give the disputed file with the 10,000 euros to the head of the D.O.Y., allegedly told the officers of the Directorate of Internal Affairs, initiating the arrests.

What did the businessman tell the police?

“Directly, the head of D.O.Y. He told me that you give us 20,000 euros and we never deal with you again, obviously meaning that if I don’t give them the money, they would continue to bother me with their supposed checks.”

In another testimony, a wholesaler from Chalkida, describes to the Anti-corruptors of EL.AS. the first contact he had with the members of the ring, who approached him with the intention of blackmailing him.

“I went to the Head’s office where the Tax Information Officer was also there. They called and T. came who was supposedly the auditor as they told me and informed me that there is a discrepancy in the amounts I had declared to the tax office, by 20,000 euros. I spoke to my accountant, I told him what they told me and he told me that there is no tax error under any circumstances”

By order of the Commander of the AADE, all suspicious cases will be re-checked after five years, while at the same time, the Anti-Money Laundering Authority requests the freezing of the assets of sworn tax officials.