Deposits, visual material and conversations extracts the action of the large circuit in Crete. The case file of thousands of pages of the case record 90 people, including businessmen, Air Force officials, police officer and detainees. The criminal organization consisted of clients and agents, groups with specific areas of responsibility and roles with action extending to all levels, from the commission of blackmailing with irrational rewards, to the trafficking – possession of drugs, weapons and ammunition as well as other serious crimes.
The structure of the organization was clear:
- At the top was the leading core that determined the quantities, prices and ways of disposal.
- Mid -grade was operating family networks and suppliers, supplying three main “trafficking” trafficking: Peace and Friendship Park, Venetian port and 1866 Square.
- In the daily distribution, small -scale groups were active, and there was a separate arm for supply and reinforcement.
Central Core – Leader Members
More specifically, the central core consisted of the alleged leader active in drug trafficking and in particular “cocaine”. His “close”, the “hands” for these trafficking had nicknames such as “Atzela” – which is his wife, “Little”, and there were also the classified members with the nicknames “Australian”, “General”, “Mars”, as well as members such as “Bigalis”. A total of 4 leadership members, 3 classified members and 10 members of the organization active in drug trafficking are recorded in the central core.
Indicatively, the wife of the alleged leader, Angela, was also said to have been a “treasurer” on behalf of the latter as she received in her bank account money – copyright for drug transactions.
Many times, in fact, money from transactions were sent by customers to the bank account of “Atzela” with which they paid off their home or daily costs, demonstrating drug trafficking as a basic way of living. Specifically, the sale of drugs was a key means of living as it appears from the analysis of telephone conversations.
The alleged leader took increased contrasting measures as he communicated mainly through online applications such as “Signal”, while mainly for the quantities of drugs used other expressions with interested customers such as “single”, “1 honey”, “keys”, “1.2”. Often ‘intact’ suspicious transactions by sending interested customers – buyers to pick up the drug from a predetermined point and leaving this cash price at this point.
Indeed, one method of drug trafficking was to oversee his personal vehicle on which the drug was predetermined. When the customer concerned the vehicle approached the vehicle, it unlocked it from a distance capable of unlocking, the customer supplied the drug, placed in the money and leaving, with the alleged leader locking up, with the completion of his sailing.
“Bigalis” allegedly used his business as a “cover” – Parking – in Chania for these trafficking while the majority of them were there. His business, which is located in the center of the city, near the concentration of toxic addicts (plates), such as the 1866 Square, the Frankish cemetery, etc., is a covered node of drug disposal, widely known in the community.
Family affair
The organization was divided into 3 more groups.
The first consisted of 12 members of the same family. These people belong to the family circle of the other alleged leader who also operated on drug trafficking and was a fugitive conviction with a total sentence of 11 years. He also used “hands” for these trafficking persons in his family circle, based on blood ties so as not to lose money or amounts of drugs. He was also based on persons in his family circle so that he could escape his arrest by the conviction.
His relatives took increased contrasting measures as they were recommended to drug buyers with different names, while during their telephone conversations for drug sale, they referred to drugs with coding such as “oranges”, “beer”, etc.
The street dealers
According to the survey, there were also members of the street dealers group, that is, those who made the trafficking of drugs (mainly cannabis) consisting of 38 people. These were the “hands” of the classified members in the immediate supply of drugs.
This group was under the guidance of its leadership and classified members, on drug trafficking (cannabis, cocaine and heroin) at specific points in Chania, with increased tourist traffic, which they used as “plates” of mood and sale.
Their main area of activity was the Peace and Friendship Park, but the Venetian port and the 1866 Square. These spots had turned them into “plates” in which they were selling drugs to passing citizens but also to tourists. In addition, they had turned points of these areas into “on -the -spot” cavities as they hid the drugs (eg bushes near the Peace and Friendship Park) and supplied interested customers – buyers.
Army and ammunition trafficking group
At the same time there was the armed and ammunition and ammunition group operating on behalf of the organization in the movement of weapons and ammunition that included 9 people. The same took increased contrasting measures and referred to ammunition as “invitations” or “buns” while also using a similar coding in firearms.
Mostly the sale and “sampling” of weapons were carried out through online applications where suppliers sent firearms to interested customers – buyers.
According to police, members were legalizing the illegal revenue they were gaining, incorporating them into the “legal” economy through the three -phase laundry model: mounting, stratification and integration. To this end, they used interbank services and international payment platforms, as well as their legal companies, which served as the so -called “washing machine” for money laundering.
It is noted that the investigation also identified members of the organization as clients and associates at an explosive mechanism incident on January 24, 2024 in Chania in an apartment building residing a police officer.
The research features a prison imprisoned in prisons under the pseudonym “Patomoukalos” with which the members of the organization maintained contacts. “Patombukalos” is accused of “explosion morality that resulted in a common danger in foreign things and people and deterioration of foreign property” and “arms”, while yet another prison in prison is accused of “immediate synergy in an explosion of” foreign dangers ” More specifically, the “Patomoukalos” is said to be the moral perpetrator of the explosive mechanism in an apartment building residing a police officer on January 24, 2024 in Chania as retaliation, while the other incarcerated is reportedly his immediate accomplice. Two other people who allegedly executed the order of the “Patomoukalos” were identified by the investigation – preliminary investigation.
The uniforms – the “chick” and the “cook”
The circuits also participated in the circuit. Indicatively, a police officer had the nickname “chick” or “girl” and allegedly informed about police operations and providing information.
At the same time, an Air Force official was allegedly active in drug trafficking. Initially he was a contact and a “associate” of the “Patomoukoukalos”, as he was entering his home in his house on his behalf. Specifically, in affidavit exams, it is referred to as a “cook” having full knowledge of “Kavatzas” points of “Patomoukoukalos”. Specifically, it was stated: “… The only ones who were allowed to go home were the people who worked directly with him and were of his absolute confidence. Specifically one was the “cook” That is, the person who “cooks” – made the “frib”, the cocaine intended for smoking … “. According to the research, then, it was revealed that it was a close “buyer” of a group of 12 members of the same family for cocaine and heroin drugs.
Another Air Force official is also alleged to have been active in the trafficking of drugs and in particular “cocaine” operating on behalf of the leader and “Kouli”. He had a key night trafficking point of a nightclub in Platanias. The supply of drugs (mainly cocaine) was on the spot in the store with interested customers – buyers (mainly tourists) to use the store’s toilets.
Source: Skai
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