More than 8m euros has been allegedly granted over the last 10 years, through telephone deceitful, the large criminal organization of which investigations are being carried out in various European countries – and including in Greece – in the context of a European investigation order of the German law enforcement authorities.

According to German media, more than 170 people are being prosecuted to participate in the criminal organization. The Saxony Public Prosecutor’s Office (based in Dresden) concerns at least 30,000 cases of fraud with the victims being mostly elderly, inside and outside Germany.

Pretending, among other things, police officers and bank officials, the defendants seem to be calling for unsuspecting victims from a call center, deceiving them on the pretext of collecting virtual debts. In order to achieve their criminal plan, judicial decisions and notices were falsified, they were delaying false debt documents, while providing the participation of the prospective victims in gambling, as German media reported, citing information from the law enforcement authorities.

In addition to Germany, investigations are being carried out in Greece, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while departures in apartments and professional areas involved, where digital evidence was seized and more.

In our country, police officers from the Northern Greece Organized Crime Officer have carried out early investigations into 15 homes in Thessaloniki, Imathia and Thrace. So far, two Greeks, 25 and 43 years old, were arrested in Komotini, at the expense of which were pending relative warrants by the German authorities.

The two detainees are expected to be referred to the Komotini Court of Appeals to begin their issuance in Germany.