It seems that the perpetrators of the robbery against an elderly woman in Crestana on April 15.

The five involved in the case removed a safe with money and coins with a total value of 120,000 euros, posing as police officers. The four of the five perpetrators arrived from A. Liosia and Aspropyrgos in Athens in a rented luxury SUV, while they had an informant in Pyrgos, a man who seems to have known their target well… The case was investigated by the police officers of the Pyrgos Security Sub-Directorate, who had taken over the preliminary investigation.

The perpetrators aged between 28 and 40 who came from Attica had as an accomplice in Ilia a 45-year-old resident of Pyrgos who deals in old iron and other items. The “Athenians” arrived a day before the robbery in Pyrgos and the camp where their accomplice lives. Their plan was built based on his information, since the 45-year-old, due to his occupation, seems to know “people and things”…

At noon on April 15, the four drove the rented car to Krestena and stopped outside the house of the elderly couple. The two of the perpetrators pretended to be the police in order to get the elderly woman to open her door for them.

It didn’t take long for their true status to be revealed… They forcibly immobilized a woman and then dealt with the safe containing a large amount of money and coins with a total value of 120,000 euros. They took it down the stairs of the house, loaded it into their vehicle and disappeared…

The four “Athenian” perpetrators returned to Athens, while their accomplice in Ilia, wanting to cover his tracks, left for Messinia and then for Zakynthos, where he was located by the police.

The four perpetrators are accused of robbery with complicity, one of them for contravention of authority and their accomplice for direct cooperation in robbery.

The thanks of the Union of Police Officers of Ilia

The Union of Police Officers of Ilia expresses its warm congratulations to the colleagues of the YA Pyrgos for solving a robbery, which took place in the morning hours of 15.04.2024 in Krestena Ilia, at the expense of a 67-year-old citizen from whose possession the sum of money of 120,000 euros.

In particular, after a thorough investigation, the colleagues of the Pyrgos Police Department proceeded to fully identify the details of four nationals, against whom a criminal case was filed for violation of articles 380 & 45 of the Criminal Code “Robbery by complicity”, while a co-accused for violation of articles 46 & 380 B.C. “Direct cooperation in Robbery, an additional 40-year-old citizen is involved.

Undoubtedly, this is yet another great success of the colleagues of YA Pyrgos, who, throughout the preliminary investigation, demonstrated methodicality, professionalism and patience, thus managing to solve the case.

As we have emphasized in the past, all the staff of the D.A. services. Ilias, despite the admittedly enormous problems it faces, fights every day for the optimal provision of services to citizens and will continue in this direction, in order to preserve the good of public security.

Congratulations to everyone!!!