Reporting: Makis Synodinos

Fear and terror had become the members of a spiral that looted safes from businesses and after a coordinated operation by ELAS, 3 people were arrested, 2 were identified who are locked up in prisons and 1 more is wanted.

In the video document presented by skai.gr, the members of the spiral can be seen at work.

As it emerged from the ELAS investigation, it was an organized group, which operated during the time period at least from November 2021 until 12/5/2023 and sought to commit felonies with the aim of financial and property gain. It consisted of at least 6 members, who had distinct roles and division of duties.

The criminal organization has committed 6 burglaries and thefts of safes from businesses, four 4 ATM burglaries and 1 truck theft and 1 license plate theft. From their criminal acts, the members of the organization obtained the total amount of money of 161,125 euros.

Indicative of the organization and infrastructure they had formed to carry out burglaries and thefts, is the supply of specialized technical equipment, which allowed them to detach locked safes from the fixed point (usually the ground) to which they are bolted. This is a special electric-hydraulic expander. One of the perpetrators, whose role was only to bring this equipment, did not participate in any other action except that, when the safe was located, he approached the point and, using the above special electric-hydraulic expander, detached the frozen safe from its stable base. In ATMs, after breaking the fixed points of the safe using welding or a wheel, they installed the electric-hydraulic expander to gain access to the amount of money.

Their approach and escape from the scene of the burglary was done by I.X. car which was the same in all cases. Sometimes stolen license plates, which they had taken from another car, and sometimes fake license plates, which corresponded to cars of the same make and color, were placed on it.

In order to fulfill their purpose, in one of the cases they removed an entire I.X. truck in order to transport the ATM, which they intended to remove, but did not complete their attempt.