In front of the 4th Thessaloniki Special Investigator, the procedure of apologies of the 24 arrested for the case of the two criminal organizations that traveled drugs to fans and on the court during football matches.

Members of the two criminal organizations are charged a total of 20 people, mostly organized followers, while the other four were arrested during the police operation that preceded the last 24 hours because illegal objects were found in their homes. The same case file of the Northern Greece Organized Crime Officer includes five more people.

The door of the investigating office was passed today to apologize six defendants. One of them was considered a temporary prisoner, while the other five were released on restrictive terms and some with monetary guarantees of 2,000 to 5,000 euros.

The apologies will continue on Sunday and end on Monday.

The prosecutor had been prosecuted for the following acts (as appropriate): Criminal organization, drug trafficking in the form of market, storage and possession (within sports facilities), money laundering, criminal activity, violations of drugs and drug laws, as well as drugs.

As it became known, members of the two circuits appear to have taken anti-follow-up measures, using covert phraseology during their communications. For example, they called the drugs “blouse”, “plan”, “work”, “keys”, “sweatshirt”, “pale” and more.

But unlike common coded expressions, the two criminal groups had a different way of supplying drugs. According to a police statement, the defendants as members of the first organization – the action of which is placed at least since September 2023 – were supplied by drugs through postal parcels from foreign countries (USA, Canada, Netherlands), authorizing other members to receive the parcels. The alleged leaders of this organization presented unjustified enrichment, with car markets. cars, as well as business moves, such as renting a canteen inside their team’s stadium, as stated in the same announcement.

The alleged members of the second organization, with action at least since last October, appear to have been supplied by drugs from “local” traffickers and then sold them, both during sports on the pitch and during their team excursions abroad, as well as abroad.

In surveys conducted in houses, vehicles, product shops and a sports facility, seized: over 1.5 kg of raw hemp, five precision electronic scales, six grafts, six knives, folding metal rods, pistol, three flashes, five cars Cars, one two -wheeled motorcycle, 30 mobile phone calls, as well as the sum of 74,360 euros. In addition, at earlier time, 3.3kg of raw cannabis were seized in parcels for delivery at ELTA stores.