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Five Greeks and a foreigner were arrested for committing telephone fraud.
The file of the Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis Department of Security also includes other defendants for the same crimes, including a local detained in a detention center, who was the main member of the gang.
How Perpetrators Fooled Unsuspecting Citizens Over The Phone
As can be seen from the investigation of the case by the Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis Security Department, in collaboration with the Piraeus Security Sub-Directorate, the main member who is confined in a detention center contacted an elderly woman by phone on 09/22 under the pretext that he will receive retroactively. He convinced her to deposit the sum of 8,800 euros in the national bank account of a member of the gang.
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The previously arrested members first went to a bank branch in Athens for the local to withdraw part of the amount with a bank card and then went to a branch in Nice for the local to withdraw the remaining amount from the fund. However, the victim had managed to denounce the transaction he carried out, upon realizing the fraud against him. Soon after, the police officers who rushed to the branch arrested the native, as well as the other members who were waiting nearby.
Likewise, another case of fraud against a domestic person was investigated by telephone, with the former main member as a speaker, where under the pretext that she was going to receive a grant from the NSRF, he persuaded her to deposit the amount of 2,850 euros and the amount of 1,000 euros. by postal check.
The investigation revealed that the Rhodes Security Deputy Directorate had brought a case against the already-arrested gang leader and other members for similar offenses. Specifically, 70 cases of fraud have been investigated.
The detainees were brought before the prosecutor of the Piraeus Court of First Instance, while the investigation for their involvement in other criminal acts continues.
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