Three of its members, among them the alleged “mastermind”, were called to apologize to the 6th regular investigator of Thessaloniki and with the consent of the prosecutor they were released with restrictive conditions and, where appropriate, with a monetary guarantee.
The criminal organization is said to have committed, between September 2017 and January of the following year, a total of 19 frauds and another 16 attempted. The case file includes a total of eight people, some of whom have died and others who are locked up in prisons.
According to the case file, the accused telephoned the victims (who had registered advertisements for the sale of cars) and appeared as allegedly interested in the immediate purchase of their vehicles. Victims were then asked to submit their identification details and bank account numbers in order to deposit the funds to purchase and pick up the vehicles.
According to the same case file, for this purpose, they prepared and sent, through electronic mail, fake proofs of money transfers, mainly on days and hours when it was not possible to verify the deposit of the amount by the victims (weekends, holidays, lunch hours, etc. etc.).
The defendants took care not to appear when the cars were picked up so that they would not be recognized by the unsuspecting victims, and other people appeared instead, some of whom remain unidentified.
The criminal group then put the same cars up for sale, again through the same website, and at a lower price, using false seller details and different photos to make them difficult to identify from the previous owners.
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