
The Greek police, after a month-long investigation, discovered a criminal group that threatened and robbed various people, including Albanians.
Members drove around in 'Porsche Cayenne' and 'Beverly', as well as taking over the rape of businessmen for third parties. The "brain" of the group, together with 4 other members, allegedly sent a businessman to resuscitation after being ordered by some policemen to rape him, as he owed him money, reports 'Protothema'.
So far, 7 members of the criminal organization have been arrested, among them the 36-year-old Greek, the "vice president", the 40-year-old Greek, 2 Iraqis and 3 Albanians, while 3 other citizens who have not yet been identified.
All of them are known to the authorities, with a serious criminal past, while the 36-year-old leader of the group has been involved in drug cases as well as a bloody shooting incident in 2022 outside a bakery in the Vula area .
As revealed by the Extortion Department's investigation, the group had been operating since May 2022 and its members were threatening restaurant owners to sell them protection, while beating up businessmen on the orders of third parties.
The criminal organization had spread its "tentacles" in the areas of Ilioupoli, Argyroupoli, Agios Dimitrios, Dafni, Alimos, Glyfada, Byron, Pagratio and Kerameikos. At the same time, criminals controlled gambling clubs in Piraeus and central Athens.
The people are muscular and boxer-like and usually wear black clothes whenever they approach their victims. They were driving around in a black Porsche Cayenne, driven by the driver and the rest of her members on 'Beverly' scooters.
They moved in military formation to cause terror while covering the license plates of their vehicles to avoid recognition. After each "hit" they took care to destroy the security cameras of the stores so that their movements were not recorded, while it is suspected that they had contact with the Police to understand if they were being watched.
In every store that they "posted" they put a "guard", as they called him, who took it upon himself to put an end to the fights.
"Send you to intensive care" - Threats and massacres in Glyfada
At noon on September 17, 2022, two cars without license plates park in front of a shop on Andrea Papandreu street, in Glyfada. 5 people get out of them and ask who the owner is.
Then they enter the store and start to assault the businessman.
From his and his partner's statements, it turned out that no one knew the perpetrators.
In February 2023, the group performed again, this time in Argyroupoli. Nine men dressed in black entered a club on Cyprus Avenue in Argyroupoli and after looting the shop, their leader punched the owner.
The group sold protection to at least 9 nightclubs and restaurants, as well as casinos. Among them is a bar on Eleftheriou Venizelou Street, in Argyroupoli, which the 36-year-old head visited last May with a gang of 11 people. There he threatened the owner that if he did not give him 200 euros per month for protection, he would pay dearly, saying that "Argyroupoli is mine"...
36-vjeçari vinte përballë çdo aktiviteti kriminal të unazës ndërsa merrte personalisht rrahjet e biznesmenëve për llogari të të tretëve. Një “porosi” e tillë me një viktimë, një tregtar makinash në Peristeri, dyshohet se i është dhënë nga një çift policësh, të cilëve biznesmeni u kishte borxh.
Siç thuhet në transfertën e Drejtorisë së Sigurimit të Atikës, biznesmeni dyshohet se kishte marrë 15 mijë euro nga një punonjës policie si paradhënie për blerjen e një makine në emër të bashkëshortes, gjithashtu punonjëse policie. Megjithatë, për shkak të vështirësive financiare, ai nuk ka mundur të dorëzojë makinën duke mbajtur paradhënien.
The payment delay was also mediated by people from the circle of the Albanian, Alket Rizai. He, together with 4 members of the criminal organization, went to Kifisos Avenue and severely assaulted the businessman who ended up in the hospital seriously injured.
The 36-year-old punched the victim while holding a gun to his head and then ordered the thugs to finish him off saying: "I told you I would send you to intensive care"./ Protothema
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