The apologies of the first 16 defendants were completed and among the defendants expected today to the competent investigative authority are the two brothers, who are attributed by police to the criminal organization in Crete. Six stakeholders were found in custody, ten people were released on restrictive terms, and one defendant requested a deadline and is expected to apologize with the rest of the detainees within the day.

The “General” talks with “Australian”

“General” and “Australian” They are the names of the two key people in the case.

Video-document records the deals outside of his house ‘Strategy’ in Chania, According to ertnews.gr. The 68 -year -old is allegedly a leader of the organization. A acquittal of the authorities, he had been arrested in the past for drug trafficking, and today he is incarcerated in Korydallos prisons. On the day of his arrest, two police officers were injured, as he attempted to escape with his son.

THE “General” In the conversations recorded, they are very careful. He uses codes to describe his action, as in the communication he had with another member of the organization, with the nickname “Australian”.

According to ERT Chania, a 38 -year -old police officer facing charges of “assisting a criminal organization with a violation of service privacy”, passed the threshold of the Chania Public Prosecutor yesterday and apologized for what is being charged.

The second case file

Particularly revealing are the dialogues included in the second case file on the criminal organization and concerns to Qualification and sale to foreign buyers of 175 acres of the Holy Trinity Monastery.

During 3 years of 175 acres in the area of ​​Stavros in Akrotiri, Chania, local investors were possessed to end up in Israelis and Germans. In the scandal with the monastery land that is damaged by 1.5m euros and reveals The second case fileincluding 6 people including bishop, lawyer and two brothers entrepreneurs.

On 08-04-2025, members of the criminal organization express their concern about persons who are heard as Possible successors of the blessed Metropolitan of Kydonia & Apokoronas Damaskinos And which of them are in their environment and directly manipulated, so as not to reveal their illegal activity.

The defendants to first succeed in selling to Israeli businessman cited a document according to which these areas did not belong to IM Holy Trinity. This is the certificate given to them in 2017 by the accused Archimandrite and said that 175 acres do not belong to the Holy Monastery.

For the dismantling of the organization that had deep roots in the local community, the ELAS girl revealed that the defendants were blackmailed clergymen with photos and videos.