For a telephone fraud, 87 -year -old in the city of Kastoria, he was arrested by police officers from the Kastoria Criminal Criminal Directorate, a 37 -year -old alien.

The detainee – a member of a criminal group active in telephone fraud – had the role of a “collector”, while a 49 -year -old alien was charged with the same case, who also had the same role. The details of three more accomplices, a man and two women, are sought and expected to be identified.

Members of the criminal group presented false events as real, in order to extract large sums of money and valuables from an elderly person, on the pretext of “emergency surgery of her relative”.

Specifically, at noon last Thursday, an unknown man phoned the 87 -year -old and, a pretending physician, falsely reported that her relative had suffered a serious injury and had immediate surgery, which required a large amount of money. At the same time, one woman was pretending to be her relative and another woman pretended to be the “relative” of the doctor.

The 87 -year -old, after being persuaded and at the suggestion of the woman who was pretending to be a “relative” of the physician, went taxi to a specific point where she had been agreed and placed a pound of £ 76, 15,000 euros and $ 1,500, received by the 49 -year -old.

Then, yesterday, these people re -contacted the 87 -year -old, asking for another amount of money to carry out the operation. The 87 -year -old, realizing her fraud, briefed the Kastoria Criminal Prosecution and Criminal Directorate, which immediately formed a special police team, consisting of police officers from the Kastoria Drug Enforcement Department for the detection and arrest.

Subsequently, the 37 -year -old alien was arrested at the time he received from a specific bag with the alleged amount of money and pounds, which had been agreed. Two cell phones were found and confiscated in the 37 -year -old.

Investigations into the identification of three unknown people – associates are continuing from the Criminal Criminal Criminal Prosecution and Explanation, while examining other similar offenses, as well as identifying any other sufferers.

The arrested person, with the case file, will be referred to the Criminal Prosecutor of Kastoria.