It was dismantled by the Attica Directorate of Migration Management, a criminal organization whose members were active in the forgery of documents and the illegal trafficking of immigrants.

Three people, members of the organization were arrested, including the leader

The case was arrested in a coordinated police operation carried out on Thursday, March 20, 2025, after exploiting information and months of thorough investigation, -3- members, members of the criminal organization, including the leader.

The above are accused of setting up a criminal organization, forgery and possession of third -party passports and travel documents, continuously.

How did they act – the roles

In particular, as it emerged from the investigation, the defendants, at least since February 2024, had set up a criminal organization, with the aim of professionally and by speculating forgery of travel documents and special documents, which are in the form of a plastic card intended for illegal European countries.

From their action they were gaining exorbitant sums of money, while having a full state -of -the -art laboratory for the training of counterfeit documents, as well as a huge stock of fakes, corresponding to almost all European countries documents to meet any need.

Members of the criminal organization, in order to achieve their purpose, had distinct roles and a specific way of action as follows:

The leader had a coordinating role while managing and organizing the orders received by the circuit, concluding agreements with prospective “customers” while also arranging financial transactions, setting the sales prices of the documents.

He often traveled to a neighboring country and supplied cards that brought security data and genuine signals in large quantities, achieving their market at low prices.

He then transported them to Greece in order to draw up the order of fake documents and to be made available to cooperating networks of illegal trafficking of immigrants.

Indeed, for the concealment of his action, he had commissioned the drawing of the fake documents to a member -forger, whose home had also been installed.

The forgotter undertook the preparation of the documents, handled the laboratory equipment, printing with the use of specialized equipment photos and details of the alleged holder of the documents, in accordance with the instructions of the leadership.

The fake documents were handed over to the third member of the organization, who undertook the delivery of the documents to the “customers”. Customers were carried by professional traffickers who made agreements to deliver a significant number of documents per order.

In this way the circuit avoided delivery of fake documents to individual immigrants, maintaining stable partnerships mainly with immigrant trafficking networks.

The research conducted in the circuit laboratory showed the range of action and specialization of its members, as a number of documents with security data respectively were found, equipment with appropriate image processing software and modern printing and engraving plastic surfaces of LASER and LED technology.

The circuit is alleged that, for each identity card, up to -600 euros, for each residence permit of up to -400 euros and for each specific consular entry visa (VISA) up to -600 euros, depending on the quantity and country of origin of the documents.

It is noted that the expected financial benefit of the organization, at the time of its action, exceeds EUR 3,000,000.

What was found in investigations

Overall, from the investigations carried out, they found and seized:

4.104 Identity Bulletons,
1.302 residence permits,
526 driving skill licenses,
47 Special Input Consulates (Visas),
61 Citizen Cards,
5 passports,
laptop computer,
Inkjet Technology Multipurpose,
2 Inkjet printers,
LED printer,
printer laser of plastic slides and
Thermalist.

It should be noted that this company was implemented in the context of the national business plan (ESA) and the EMPACT 2.2 EastMed action of the European Union Policy Circle leading our country.

In this context, there has been close collaboration with the European Migrant Smuggling Center (EMSC) of Europol, exchanging and analyzing business information that led to the identification of key suspects of the circuit.

Indeed, on the day of action (Action Day) EUROPOL’s expert expert assisted the business through real -time analysis of information data using the Europol (mobile office) mobile data analysis unit.

The detainees were taken to the competent prosecutor’s office.