Plenty of elements that seem to highlight the long-term action of a structured and organized team business extortion in the restaurant area, the defendants, municipal and other public officials, who apologize to the Corruption Investigators for felonies, are called to contradict.

After yesterday’s apologies of the first eight eight in the big case of the ring that operated in the center of Athens, two of the defendants were sent to prison, today the second group, which also includes the persons who are attributed a leading role in the crime, will be held accountable before the judicial officer . organization.

An organization that, according to the charge, was “operationally structured and in continuous action with distinct roles and a specific hierarchical structure of distribution of criminal roles and a criminal long-term perspective in which the will of the individual is subordinated to the will of the whole.”

The man, who is considered a leader of the organization, has already been found in the investigation office and at this time the alleged leader, the Nancy .

The two managers of the criminal group, according to the case file, were the ones who approached employees, in public services that were responsible for the control of shops of health interest, hotels and construction works, in order to join the group that thus acquired involvement and capabilities to develop its illegal action.

The material that has been collected also includes the recording of the precautionary measures taken by the group in order not to reveal its action, with the selection of specific meeting points for the payment of members, specific methods of communication, etc.

For example, in the data that will be studied by Investigator it is also the reference of the prosecuting authorities for one of the leading duo. The accused was recorded as having difficulty in his movements, having a two-cycle belonging to an institution related to his brother, with which he often moved in reverse on a one-way road, thus making it difficult to monitor him.

According to the charge, the organization’s action appears to be determined – at this stage – from January 2023 until its deportation on July 5, 2024.

From what has become known about the case, it seems that the organization had specific methods, initially friendly and then threatening, to blackmail those who did not want to “buy” its services. According to the authorities, those shopkeepers who refused to “cooperate” with the group were faced with threats, or even administrative actions, for certificates of violations, sealing, etc.

The phrase “the situation has reached an impasse” is characteristic, which he allegedly used in the complaint he made a few months ago, the business with a business in the center of Athens, describing the pressure and also the gluttony shown by the group for its fees in the “protection” it offered.

The process has started since the morning, with most of the accused having already pleaded guilty and will be completed late at night, when the Investigator and the Prosecutor will judge the criminal treatment of each one.