Nine defendants were found to be temporary detainees and the rest of the 14 were released on restrictive terms for the case of the two criminal organizations that traveled drugs to fans and on the court during football matches.

Four brothers in prison

The procedure of apologies of a total of 23 detainees began in part last Friday and ended today before the 4th Special Investigator Thessaloniki.

Among those who crossed today the threshold of the investigating office are four brothers who all took the road to prisons, with the consent of an investigator and prosecutor.

There had been a long investigation by the Northern Greece Organized Crime Officer, which culminated last week with the arrest operation of the persons involved.

The same case file includes another five people.

Those who were released were imposed on restrictive conditions, such as a police station, a ban on leaving the country and a financial guarantee.

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.

Supplied drugs with postal parcels from US, Canada, Netherlands

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, in the same announcement.

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