His action, his money laundering and his turnover of 400,000 euros per day

They melted and paid almost all the gold that came to Turkey in pawn shops all over the country. Lives in luxury have washed away millions of profits by buying luxury homes, boats and cars.

These are its members "Mafia of gold" Maroussi Safety broke up after several months of research.

In fact, the police are talking about two groups who have worked together to buy the 1000 pounds a kilogram below the official price and ship them abroad without paying the euro in taxes and duties! A process that went so far as to "black" … Even a junior police officer who informed the "big bosses" of the steps taken by the authorities was essential. Security tries to prove if the foundry of the two groups was found with stolen gold jewelry to their owners.

The first criminal organization, which had 130 gold and silver stores, was at the head of a 65-year-old Greek goldsmith, and the second, a Turk of Turkish origin and Dimitris Richardo, The 51-year-old sought to find 44 stores and the Turk received him, as well as buses that left almost daily for Constantinople to hunt for gold in Greece.

They were independent of each other in terms of constitution and management of their funds, but the action of each organization was brought to the knowledge of the other. In fact, the main members of the organizations had agreed on the purchase price of gold, in order to eliminate competition between them and increase their profits. The daily action cycle of the two organizations is 400,000 euros.

Interconnection at the chief level implied the "conclusion of agreements", which were of a fixed nature and allowed criminal organizations to operate simultaneously and simultaneously without the action of a single entity. 39 Influence the other, quite the contrary, according to the purpose of the action, collaborations also existed. They even carried out illegal transactions, without risk of random checks, because they were generally "legal" because they operated under the guise of legitimate companies that moved daily and had large sums exceeding € 400,000. The main feature of the organizations was that, thanks to the abundance of their financial means, especially the main members, they financed their members daily, with the aim of buying almost all the gold that the citizens Promoted or sold in related stores with minimal money and gold purchase from any source of irrelevant origin. The quantities of gold came from the amalgamation of the unknown origin of jewelery, books and other valuables in their possession, purchased or pledged, and it would appear that some of these objects were a product of the crime. In addition, the two criminal organizations worked, with a cover of legitimate businesses, with a similar purpose of illegal activity, thus ensuring coverage and avoidance of the consequences of the law.

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Yesterday, simultaneous police operations took place in Athens, Thessaloniki, Alexandroupolis and Volos, which resulted in the arrest of 63 members of both circuits, including fifty-five nationals and eight foreigners. Twenty-two other people, who are part of the file, were organized and looked for. According to the police For the complete deconstruction and calibration of all illegal activities of members of both groups, many months of police investigation took place on the Greek territory. It has been shown that all pre-critical techniques (police research, physical and technical surveillance, secrecy, interconnection, information, etc.), as well as the ranking and correlation of preliminary documents, were developed and compiled by members. for at least two years, a specific structure and sustainable actions.

More specifically, it appears from the progress and evolution of the investigations that two distinct criminal organizations, whose head office is located in the center of Athens and whose network extends throughout the Greek territory, are involved in offense of smuggling gold, mainly in the form of scrap, via committing more criminal offenses to prevent the payment of legitimate taxes and other legitimate legal burdens during the purchase, sale, sale or sale the receipt, delivery, trade, possession, storage and illegal export to Kia ".

Daily itineraries for Istanbul

The object of the criminal activity was the smuggling of gold and in particular its constant and uninterrupted illegal export to Turkey, mainly by means of almost daily tourist buses taking the Athens-Constantinople route. and vice versa. A typical case of gold transfer is the arrest of a member of the criminal organization working on a tourist bus in possession of which was seized the money of 12 000 euros, as well as 17 bullion bars. weighing 24.6 kilograms, with an estimated value of around 600 000 euros and a significant amount. gold coin.

Millions of profits and code names

The profits from their criminal activities have been legalized through the acquisition of real estate such as the purchase of luxury homes, land, vehicles and boats, business expansion, and so on. through specific processes covering the three stages of legalization required by law, namely laying, layering and embedding. . In addition, a legitimation is also the fact that they lived a luxurious life. In their inter-phone communications, members of criminal organizations used coded words and phrases to describe the objects on which they were active, such as:

• Sugar: Gold.
• Yellow: Gold.
• End: 24k gold
• A heavy piece: a kilo of gold.
• Round: British Pounds.
• Girls: Gold Books from England.
• Metal / Iron: Gold rolled in the form of scrap
• Travelers: Packages containing gold and silver.
• Lines: Thousands of euros.
• Papers: money.

Among the investigations carried out in 54 houses and 30 branches of the arrested persons, were found and confiscated:
• gold plates weighing 30.4 kg worth 545,000 euros,
• Plates and pure gold, weighing 6.2 kilograms, worth 235,600 euros,
• 513 kg of silver, worth 220,590 euros,
• 1121 pounds of gold worth 330,695 euros,
• 360 pieces of gold,
• 18 precious stones,
• ring with precious stone worth 56 900 euros,
• 2 images of apparent age,
• the amount of 850 000 €,
• checks worth 60 500 euros,
• 5 firearms, 15 shotguns, 2 air guns, 212 cartridges and
• little cannabis.

According to the aforementioned activities of members of criminal organizations, the shortfall for the Greek government would amount to several million euros. This amount will be determined accurately as part of the judicial inquiry into the case.

The defendants' lawyers respond

At the same time, defenders of defense supporters reacted strongly to the statements of Alexis Tsipras, who anonymously referred to the pawnbroker, Richard, claiming that he had " thirsty citizens in the crisis ".

"We have not yet received a copy of the file, we do not know exactly the accusations, we reserve the refusal of our client and it is surprising that the representatives of the State have knowledge of the file and even express We believe that justice will find the truth and that all categories will collapse, "says pawnbroker attorney Petros Pantazis, protothema.gr. We are at a very early stage. We have not yet received a copy of the file, we will be asking for a deadline to apologize to all the accused, which makes me particularly impressed and questioned by the fact that it is possible that the Prime Minister of the country publicly commented on a criminal case for which he did not always pronounce justice ".