Yesterday afternoon, the Directorate of the Economic Police carried out a surprise control in the area of ​​Athens, in a store of health interest, where illegal games of chance were being conducted.

A total of 27 people were arrested for the case, against whom a case file was filed for case-by-case violations of the laws on games, personal data and on foreigners.

According to THE GREEK POLICEthe store was located after appropriate use of intelligence and it was found that illegal games of chance, such as “roulette” and “slots”, were being conducted there.

In fact, the internal and external areas of the store were monitored by cameras without permission from the competent Authority, in order to control the entrance and movements of customers as well as to avoid surprise police checks.

In total, from the searches carried out, the following were found and seized:

* “roulette” type game machine with coin acceptor,

* a specially designed table with monitors, connected to central units and mice, where the game of chance “roulette” was depicted,

* 6 table roulettes,

* 25 complete computers, depicting the slot machine game,

* 3 wall screens,

* 8 servers,

* 4 card game tables,

* wireless remote control and 15 cameras,

* a lot of chips and playing cards,

* handwritten notes and

* 4,465 euros.

The confiscated digital evidence will be sent to the Department of Criminal Investigations for laboratory examination, the rest confiscated to the Department of Public Material Management for safekeeping, while the amount of money will be returned to the Deposit and Loan Fund.

Those arrested were taken to the competent prosecutor’s office.

ELAS reminds that citizens can contact, anonymously or by name, the telephone number 11012 or the website of the Greek state (gov.gr) “Complaint for financial crimes”, to provide information or report illegal and interfering actions or activities , against the sector of the economy, public property, as well as social and insurance welfare and rights.