In Chania today, Tuesday, the ELAS spokesman will be on Tuesday. Constantia Dimoglidou for the criminal organization disrupted in Crete. The official announcements of ELAS They will take place at the Chania Police Palace at 2pm and the presentation will be held by the Director of the Chania Police Directorate, Brigadier Nikolaos Canellos and the press spokesman, Mr. Dimoglidou.
In its announcements, police are expected to give more details on the action of the criminal organization whose members are alleged to be involved in drug trafficking, blackmail and bomb attacks, but also how authorities were able to reach its disintegration.
8,000 pages the case file
The case file in the hands of prosecutors and investigating authorities is ongoing. According to sources in Cretapost, these are about 8,000 pages while the transmitter consists of 1,200 pages.
Following the exit of those arrested by the prosecutor, Nikos Stiakakis, one of the lawyers in the case, said that this is a criminal group is “a particularly strict prosecution” which “remains to be found if it responds to the case file”.
48 -hour deadline to apologize was received by arrested
Yesterday, Monday, the arrested persons were brought to the prosecutor of Chania, who brought them criminal prosecutions of setting up a criminal organization as well as for drug and weapons possession and trafficking offenses.
After their first deposition to the prosecutor, they requested and received a 48 -hour deadline, resulting in apologizing next Thursday and Friday.
More specifically, the first 17 will apologize on Thursday and another 16 on Friday. The 15 remaining are imprisoned in prisons and in the coming days they will be announced when they will apologize.
Who make up the circuit
ELAS, after a large operation held on Sunday, August 31, in various areas of Crete, in the presence of judicial officers, has managed to disrupt a criminal organization with “rich” action.
A total of 48 people were arrested, 12 of whom are already imprisoned in prisons as they serve penalties for drug and weapons cases. However, the rest of the detainees have, in their overwhelming majority, have been concerned with the authorities in the past for similar offenses. Meanwhile, according to police sources, other people in the case are being examined, a development that is expected to lead to new arrests.
Among the detainees are businessmen, a police officer, two soldiers as well as a clergyman. In particular, the police officer allegedly provided information to members of the organization on the action of ELAS, while the two Armed Forces officers appear to be involved in drug trafficking. The clergyman allegedly involved in blackmail while under the microscope of the authorities there have also been the sale of the Church of the Church to individuals.
A leading role in the organization is said to have two brothers, old acquaintances of the authorities, who owns a large tourist unit in the area, and they possess two beach bars as well as other stores.
How was it dislocated
According to Cretapost, Investigations on the action of the circuit started a year ago About when ELAS, in complete consultation with the Public Prosecutor’s Office, decided to organize a large undercover business to collect the information required.
Two police officers from Athens were selected and descended in Crete, and specifically to Chania to get a job, as employees, at a catering shop maintained by the “leaders” of the circuit.
Day after day, the two “secret” police officers managed to gain the confidence of members of the circuit and penetrate the criminal organization by recording all their movements and contacts.
Within a few months they now knew how the organization worked, the roles that each and their action had (arms, drug trafficking and blackmail cases).
The two “secret” police officers provided all the information they collected to their bosses and the prosecutor’s office.
As a result, on Sunday morning, a large police operation was organized and 48 members of the circuit were arrested.
Drugs, weapons and 100,000 euros the findings
Drugs, weapons and tens of thousands of euros in cash was seized by police during the large operation in Chania and Rethymnon.
Authorities in investigations in the homes of the basic members of the criminal organization found and seized more than 2kg of cocaine, more than 11kg of hashish, Kalashnikov and other heavy weapons and 100,000 euros in cash.
Indeed, police sources say that members of the circuit seem to have made a turnover of at least 3m euros from their illegal occupations.
Source: Skai
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