Information indicates that most of the defendants in their apologies denied the accusations attributed to them. In fact, in order to strengthen their claims, they allegedly pointed out that none of the businessmen who appear to have fallen victim to the ring has reported them. In addition, some of the defendants are said to have exercised their right to remain silent, with the result that, at least at this stage, they will not say a single word.
However, their claims were not convincing and as a result it was decided to pre-trial detention them. One of the accused who crossed the threshold of the investigative office following his apology was released with the restrictive conditions of appearing at the Police Station of his area twice a month and not being allowed to leave the country.
For this particular case, 14 people have been arrested so far and are facing serious charges as they appear to have extorted shopkeepers and gas station owners and in the event that they did not submit, they appear to have placed explosive devices in their shops.
The remaining six defendants will plead guilty tomorrow.
GREEK MAFIA – “HOOLIGANS S.A.”: The new “leader”, blackmail and protections
The hooligans were interested in the reshuffles in the leadership of the Greek Mafia and not in fan issues. This is reflected in their characteristic conversations that have been recorded as part of the investigation of the Department of Prosecution of Extortion.
A 30-year-old hooligan talks to a 39-year-old on January 14, 17 hours following the brutal murder of the 44-year-old called “Ham” in Neo Kosmos, mentioning the changes that will come following the murder, as “Thanasis” would take over the protection of the shops and the “Cretan” gas stations.
The carrier of this information was a 46-year-old Iranian man flagged for extortion, who appears to have known who the killer was and advised them to keep their distance from 36-year-old “Mike” from Albania.
In another conversation of the 39-year-old with “Lena”, incarcerated in the women’s prison in Eleonas, Thebes, on March 22, there is talk of the reshuffles in the Greek Mafia.
39 years old: We had some reshuffles. Ok, we fixed it all.
“Lena”: Rearrangements? I mean?
39 years old: Well, our big boss is dead. Didn’t you hear regarding the murder?
“Lena”: Was “Ham” your big boss?
39 years old: Well, what to do, okay. Now his best man has taken over.
“Lena”: Was it regarding the store? No.
39 years old: Well, he had the protection of the store at night, hey.
“Lena”: Well, not everything, what does “Thamnakias” do?
39 years old: Well, he’s different, they’re different. But there was a “peace”, now there is no “peace”.
“Lena”: What do you say, hey?
39 years old: Well, now “Panagos” has taken over. We are with him, of course it is better. Because we are more organized. There were tolerances with the other, you see.
“With Kalashnikov”
Speaking to his friend, a 36-year-old hooligan who was arrested for the incidents on Alexandra Avenue last Saturday and accused of being part of the organization refers to the bomb explosion that took place last March in a cellar in Kallithea and the shootings outside a well-known nightclub Sygrou Avenue, a few days later. This is regarding the reprisals that the criminal organization had received from the rival “pole” of the Greek Mafia following placing a bomb in a gas station in Piraeus, on March 8. The 36-year-old worked as a security guard at the bouzoukis where Katerina Lioliou sang, but had left before the shootings.
Friendly person: Hey, what happened over there in Kallithea?
36 years old: Where;
Friendly person: In… in Sygrou and I said in Kallithea. A liquor cellar, what was it? They put, what did they put… tell me.
36 year old: Here in us, that’s what I told you, yes we are that, in ours.
Friendly person: Today, today they said it in the news. It’s gone bad. They are looking into it.
36 year old: I know this because yesterday they threw Kalashnikovs at us, they shot us.
The deputy mayor and the… beans
“Are we going to throw any punches?”, asks a 32-year-old hooligan-bravo, talking on the phone with a deputy mayor of Western Attica who has hired him to have a physical presence at polling stations in the municipal elections of 2023. The following dialogue follows:
Deputy Mayor: Are you there ten now?
32 year old: Ten, ten, ten.
Deputy Mayor: What are you with?
32 year old: Here we plant, we sit.
Deputy Mayor: With motorbikes?
32 year old: We have a car, we have everything, er… and motorbikes and a car, whatever you want.
“KEEP WORKING TO BECOME A “HAM” ONE DAY”
“Haha. Don’t die, keep working to become “Ham” one day. I will be proud”, says the friend of the 26-year-old accused in a conversation with him, expressing her concerns regarding the jobs he undertakes.
32 year old: Yes, and “Ham” and “Ham” is dead, don’t you think.
32 year old girlfriend: Oh yeah.
32 year old: I don’t have, I don’t intend to be a “Ham”. I’m going to give it all up for you, man. No, “Ham” I don’t want to be, I want to be, c….eh ta. Flower child.
“It’s true that such a person returns to the scene of the crime…”, says the 32-year-old accused ironically, revealing to a friendly person that following setting fire to a truck, he went for… a run to the scene.
THE “BEAR” WITH A HEAVY CRIMINAL PAST
The leader of the extortion group, the 59-year-old nicknamed “Bear”, had 8 arrests on his “heavy” resume, from 1996 to 2021. He has been accused twice of participating in criminal organizations of extortionists, in 2004 and 2011, for moral turpitude in homicide, while he has been arrested for incidents in stadiums, for extortion, robbery, bodily harm, weapons.
All four hooligans-members of the organization who were arrested last Saturday for the incidents in Alexandras village are known to the authorities. A 32-year-old hooligan has 3 arrests to his credit, in 2012 for gambling, in 2017 for weapons and in 2024 for violations of the KOK. A 36-year-old man has been arrested 8 times from 2009 to 2024.
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