Another 27 cases of fraud, committed by members of the criminal organization, for which a case file had been filed for the crimes of the criminal organization and fraud were investigated by the Katerin Security Sub-Directorate.
In particular, 15 people were arrested and another 34 people were identified, all members of the criminal organization, while the case file also included 233 beneficiaries of bank accounts, for the crime of simple assistance in fraud.
They called citizens or businesses under the pretext of paying off a debt or paying an allowance or purchase and through a hyperlink sent by email or SMS, they extracted access codes to electronic bank accounts and transferred sums of money to the bank accounts of people they had “recruited”. for a monetary fee.
From the ongoing investigation by the police, it emerged that the members of the criminal organization, using the same methodology, during the period from June 2022 to March 2023 committed another 27 frauds once morest citizens and companies in various regions of mainland and island Greece , where they received a total amount of money that exceeds 430,000 euros.
Also identified were the details of 36 Greeks and three foreigners, beneficiaries of bank accounts, to whom the above money collected from the victims was transferred.
The supplementary case file was submitted to Investigator Katerinis.
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