An interesting trick was found by members of the urban circuit to issue illegally building permits, in cases where the legal conditions were not met.

Made a “brain” engineer with dementia

First of all, they were searching in the archive of Town Planning Inactive Protocols from previous years that had not been used. They then copied the protocol numbers, and with them the alleged circuit brain collapsed new, fake files, displaying an elderly man as a responsible civil engineer who, as it emerged, suffers from dementia.

Then, in order to give more legitimacy, the defendants sealed the fake files using the elements of employees who have previously worked in Rhodes Town Planning and have retired for years.

In the meantime, the removal of confidentiality on the suspects of the suspects, the internal affairs service recorded talks of the alleged circuit with two South Aegean officials. These are two women working in Region health services, with the content of their talks referring, according to police, to financial transactions. It is clarified that the two employees are not prosecuted, however and this aspect of the case will be evaluated in the context of the main interrogation.

Hid money in pots and cabinets

The amounts demanded by the circuit even reached 100,000 euros. It is indicative that the house of an employee who was responsible for issuing building permits found half a million euros, 3 deposit books and gold pounds.

In particular, in pots. On cabinets, in bags and envelopes. Nearly 500,000 euros were discovered by the Greek Police Hall at the House of Head of Rhodes Planning. Together they found 21 gold pounds, one seal of town planning and numerous documents.

Methodically and for months, authorities recorded conversations and transactions that unravel the thread of a corruption case with huge economic dimensions. The stakeholders, according to the revelations, issued building permits by bypassing legitimacy, while demanding “sachets” to speed up procedures.

The circuit dialogues – how they acted

In the dialogues recorded by the authorities, those involved speak with cynicism about their “jobs”, the amounts they required, and the pressure they were practicing.

Employee: When your issue goes through, don’t worry. For the fine I mean so on. I am a member (of the Council of Urban Planning and Doubt).

Citizen: So it will be canceled, huh?

Employee: I’m a member, yes. Now in the summer you are working on the edge for this case not to come in the winter, to see how we will settle it. Do you?

Citizen: Fine.

Tariff to issue a license not served by applicable legislation was 20,000 eurosof them 5,000 euros This employee was taking, who also told the Civil Engineer also a member of the circuit what to ask the customer.

Boss: This permission to pass to pass and issued in the urban planning I want this amount…. How much, how much do you get in the off plan? How much do you get, one fifteen (15,000) … two houses? Plus five (5), twenty (20) tell him, these are, say, if you like it.

Architect living and working for years in Rhodes describes to SKAI how he operated the circuit:

“The whole operation of the service was like an organized gang. What they found is nothing given the number of folders found right and left and how many years this money was very few. Either they removed the entire folder if they did not comply with them or amended any documents that have forgery in order to gain legitimacy illegal work with this structure at least in the last 1 year, some must have been older. “

The question is: How deep does corruption reach? The Mayor of Rhodes decided to refer the five officials of the Town Planning to the Disciplinary Board and the suspension of their duties.

The seven arrested as members of the circuit were brought before the prosecutor yesterday with heavy categoriesthey asked and received deadline to apologize on Monday.