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Categories for gold smuggling but also for wear includes criminal proceedings brought by the prosecutor at their own expense stopped for participation in the circuit which was dismantled by the police after his big business.
The prosecution in the smuggling circuit case includes four crimes and four crimes.
The charges against the detainees were referred to each case criminal organization offenses, smuggling, money laundering and spoofing.
In addition, the offenses of violation of the laws on drugs and weapons, the acceptance and disposal of the proceeds of crime and counterfeiting after use.
The accused will be brought to investigatorfrom which they are expected to receive deadlines for their apologies.
In several million euros, which can not be determined accurately at this time, is estimated by the police or loss of income for the Greek state the gold smuggling of the two major circuits dismantled by EL.AS.
It is typical that only the value of the input is approximately 2 million euros.
For this extreme case, they were stopped quite 63 peopleand in his regard Owner of a chain of 51-year-old pawnbrokers had a leading role with a direct partner of a Turkish citizen.
The knowledge of the pawnbroker is accused of collecting large amounts of gold with his colleagues from his stores and other pawnbrokers, and then diverting them to Turkey and other countries.
The police created "a leaf and a feather", both in the offices of his company and in his luxurious home in the southern suburbs.
As representatives of EL.AS. during the presentation of the case, took place yesterday morning simultaneous police operations in Athens, Thessaloniki, Alexandroupolis and Volosin which they were arrested 55 Greeks and 8 strangers, while another 22 people were identified and searched for in the file.
It should be noted that among those arrested, there is also a policeman, who serves in Attica and plays a role informant.
At the expense of those arrested, a bodily record has been established, criminal organization offenses, criminal offenses relating to the Customs Code, criminal trafficking, the acceptance and disposition of proceeds of crime, prevention and the suppression of money laundering and the financing of terrorism, usury, falsification, the right of weapons and addictive substances.
Amounts of gold flowing between the two circuits in Turkey and possibly in other countries, according to police estimates, came from the casting of jewelery of unknown origin and other valuables in their possession, purchased and pledged, and it appears that some of it is a product of the crime.
It should be noted that two circuits cooperated and "hit" the gold, € 1,000 per kilo the value of the board.
In fact, according to the police, they carried out illegal transactions without the risk of random checks, as they were generally "legal" and operated with the coverage of legitimate business while traveling daily with large sums exceeding 400,000 euros.
One of the main characteristics of the two criminal groups was that they financially financed their members daily, in order to buy almost all the gold that citizens gave or promised in pawnbrokers. for a minimum of money, purchase gold from any source of irrelevant origin.
The export of gold to Turkey is made mainly through tourist buses operating on the Athens-Istanbul line and vice versa.
It is characteristic that one of the arrested authors who was in possession of was working on a tourist bus, the sum of 12 000 euros, a gold coin, as well as 17 ingots weighing 24.6 kilos, estimated at about 600 000 euros, were found and seized.
As for the profits made by the two circuits, they legalized them by buying goods such as the purchase of luxury houses, land, vehicles and boats, by developing businesses and other actions, while noting that Authors had a good life.
The coded words
In addition, in their inter-phone communications, the authors used coded words and phrases to describe the objects they operated on, for example:
"Sugar and yellow" was gold, "end" of 24 – carat gold, "a little heavy" was a kilo of gold, "around" books English, "girls" gold books of England, "metal / iron" gold in scrap form, "travelers" package containing gold and silver , "lines" were thousands of euros and "papers" of money.
The police raids carried out in the parties' homes and shops were found and confiscated:
Gold plates weighing 30.4 kg worth 545,000 euros. Plates and pure gold, weighing 6.2 kilos, worth 235,600 euros. 513 pounds of silver, worth 220,590 euros. 1,121 pounds of gold, worth € 330,695. 360 pieces of gold. 18 precious stones.
Ring with gemstone, worth 56 900 euros. 2 images of apparent age. The sum of money is 850 000 euros. Checks of 60,500 euros. 5 firearms. 15 hunting rifles. 2 air guns. 212 cartridges. Little cannabis.
Those arrested, along with the case against them, were taken to the Athens Office of the Defamation Prosecutor.
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