The role ofcollector59-year-old member of a criminal group engaged in telephone scams who was arrested by police officers in Grevena.

As part of the action of the criminal group, unknown persons made numerous telephone calls to unsuspecting citizens in the wider area of ​​Grevena and falsely informed them that their relative had suffered a serious injury and needed immediate surgery, for which it was necessary to pay a large sum of money amount and valuables.

In fact, according to the General Regional Police Directorate of Western Macedonia, there was an alleged issue of immediate risk of mutilation of the relative in case of non-payment of the sum of money.

The citizens who received the phone calls became aware of their attempted fraud, did not respond to the demands and informed the police authorities.

A police operation followed, during which officers from the Grevena Security Department located the 59-year-old woman in Grevena in a vehicle. From the preliminary investigation it emerged that as a member of a criminal group, which commits fraud by telephone, she had the role of “collector” of the sums of money and that she had arrived a day before her arrest.

A case file was filed against the 59-year-old for the offenses of attempted fraud by a criminal group.

The Grevena Security Department is continuing investigations to identify her accomplices, while her participation in other similar criminal acts is being examined, as well as the identification of any other victims.