Large-scale oil smuggling in Attica and the Region, death contracts in Greece and Cyprus, unknown investigations in western Greece in the context of the so-called operation «clean handsAnd suspicious connections of people of the night with former police officers come to light, in the context of the investigations for the murder of Giannis Skaftouros, early at noon on Easter Monday at his holiday home in Skourta, Boeotia, according to Kathimerini.
According to the report, some police sources point out that the secret about the perpetrators of the savage murder may be hidden in a specific penitentiary in the country.
The execution of “Uncle Joe”, as the 53-year-old was nicknamed, shook the “night” and at the same time was an occasion for the removal of experienced officers from the Security, on the grounds that they failed to break the chain of murders. from 20 the period from 2017 onwards) which have been associated with the uncontrolled action of organized crime in the country.
Giannis Skaftouros was released at the end of 2018 and, a year later, his interest company was found involved in transporting chemical solvents from Bulgaria, first to hidden warehouses in Attica and then to gas stations in the basin for fraud and smuggling.
A police officer who had taken part in the investigation described to “K” that tanks belonging to a company of a close relative of his were found loading solvents from a warehouse in Aspropyrgos in order to falsify fuel at 5 gas stations in West Attica.
A 49-year-old Cypriot man was described as the leader of the smuggling ring, against whom an international arrest warrant was pending from Interpol for murder, with information from Nicosia linking his action with “affairs of the night».
He was finally arrested at the end of April 2022 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with information in the Cypriot press stating that he lived in incredible luxury.
And while the trial for the smuggling case of 2019 is pending in the first instance, another tanker truck that transported chemical solvents and is said to be connected through Skaftouros through labyrinthine routes, was recently blocked at a border crossing in Northern Greece. It is reported that “Uncle Joe” had a liaison in Bulgaria with a former Greek police officer, who mediates the supply of chemical solvents from the refineries of the neighboring country and their transport to Greece with forged documents on behalf of companies – “ghosts”.
A few days ago, well-informed sources revealed to “K” that last August, in the context of actions to tackle the organized crime announced by the then Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis (“clean hands” operation), Attica Security police officers had carried out checks on 10 gas stations in areas of western Greece that are under the control of the local businessman. That investigation is not only irrelevant to the Skaftourou case.
There were indications that significant quantities of Bulgaria’s chemical solvents ended up in the gas stations owned by the businessman through a mechanism allegedly controlled by Skaftouros.
In addition, the security police had “fallen” on the owner of the gas station as part of the investigation to find out a death contract in 2021.
More than four people are accused of being the natural and moral perpetrators of that murder. The businessman in question maintained a friendly relationship with the victim of the “contract”, at the same time that his relations with the alleged perpetrators are described as more than hostile. The businessman’s protection net was allegedly spread by Giannis Skaftouros, who, moreover, allegedly maintained a very profitable commercial relationship with him.
Meetings of convicts
Some of the defendants in that death sentence are currently being held in a penitentiary in Central Greece, along with Albanians and Greeks, who are serving long prison sentences for involvement in serious affairs of the “night”.
Some of their suspicious encounters during regular prison leave over the past two months have not gone unnoticed by law enforcement officials, as they were considered likely to be a preparation for serious crime. After Skaftouros’s murder, the data are re-evaluated.
As “K” wrote in last Sunday’s paper, the descriptions of some of the eyewitnesses of Skaftourou’s murder suggest that at least one of the perpetrators is from a country of the former Soviet Union.
In the body of the 53-year-old, apart from Kalashnikov bullets and a 9 mm pistol, traces of shotgun shrapnel were found.
Although it was initially thought that a third of the killers used a carbine, experts concluded that the carbine was used as a means of defense during the attack by one of the relatives of the murdered, with the shrapnel hitting the 53-year-old, among others.
The finding leaves open the possibility from the shrapnel of the carbine that one of the perpetrators was injured!
As for the Triumph engine stolen from Aspropyrgos in 2019, which the perpetrators abandoned during their escape, it turned out that it did not stop due to damage, but that the magnetic stand of the motorcycle hit the road and deformed, thus transmitting an incorrect electronic signal to shut down the engine.
Both the stolen Triumph as well as the agricultural relative of Skaftouros, which the perpetrators tried to seize before it was immobilized in a ditch, are in the Directorate of Criminological Investigations.
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