With a “showcase” of three businesses that allegedly provided relaxation and physical well-being services, multi-member ring of pimps issued women that they faced economic problems.

The same ring also appears to be involved in loans on usurious terms, while prosecutors have evidence to show that its members planned fake car accident scams to defraud insurance companies.

The Independent Anti-Money Laundering Authority was also informed about the case.

After many months of police investigations, which culminated in the previous 24 hours, police officers of the Organized Crime and Human Trafficking Sub-Directorate of the Thessaloniki Security Directorate arrested seven members of the ring (all compatriotsaged 26 to 54), of which 43-year-old alleged ‘mastermind’.

Among those arrested are three women.

Pimping, loan sharking and virtual traffic police

The ring has been operating since the middle of last year with the alleged “massage” businesses operating in Northern Greece – two in Thessaloniki (city center and Evosmos) and one at Serres.

The accused as members of the criminal organization obliged them women – victims to carry out continuously love dates, for a feewith clients, sometimes with use of violence and sometimes with the threat of violence.

In addition, the same circuit was lending various sums of money to third parties who needed cash, but with conditions that exceed the law fair interest rateas stated in a Police announcement.

They also planned the involvement of luxury or non-luxury cars in virtual car accidents, in order to defraud insurance companies. In this particular case, as pointed out in the same announcement, they bought the vehicles from foreign countries, with money they obtained illegally from their aforementioned criminal activities and used them in their daily life and in the commission of their criminal acts.

As part of the investigations, a total of 13 vehicles were seized. cars, a two-wheeled motorcycle, the sum of 8,487 euros and five golden pounds, numerous documents of handwritten notes with dates, names of women (victims) and sums of moneya pistol with a built-in laser attachment, four magazines with cartridges, two recorders and closed circuit cameras security cameras, a number of vehicle clearance documents, bank deposits and withdrawals, five luxury wristwatches and a small amount of cannabis.

Heavy indictment

A criminal case was filed against the arrested persons for the offenses of founding and participating in a criminal organization, human trafficking, pimping, fraud, dangerous interventions in road transport, obtaining a false certificate, protection of natural persons against data processing of a personal nature, money laundering by profession and violation of the Arms and Drug Laws (some as the case may be). They are taken to the prosecuting attorney, who will refer them to plead to a regular investigator.