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The Greek police have busted a criminal group that stole cars in the neighboring country and then exported them through the Greek-Albanian border with the aim of selling them abroad.
Protothema.gr writes that the members of the group patrolled the neighborhoods mostly at night and stole luxury vehicles parked outside.
Then they put fake number plates accompanied by traffic permits that corresponded to vehicles of the same make, model and color and finally exported them through the Greek-Albanian border abroad in order to sell them.
It is learned that the 'head' of the group is a 37-year-old man from Albania, who at the end of August 2023 was involved in an armed conflict and as a result was seriously injured.
How did the group work?
Regarding their activity, the members of the organization usually moved at night to different areas of Attica, looking for luxury cars. Once they identified the tools they wanted to steal, they used the equipment they had to open and steal them.
To open the vehicles, special technical devices were used, which are used by persons with technical knowledge who professionally commit vehicle thefts. These are particularly valuable devices, which are difficult to find in Greece and in most cases the authors import them from abroad.
They would then park the stolen vehicles in the open, to ensure that if they had a GPS tracker, their detection would not lead the authorities to the trail of the members.
After determining the absence of a tracking system, they moved the vehicles to a location where members of the organization had access, with minimal police traffic, thus ensuring that they would not be detected by patrolling officers.
In the end, using false documents that they had already arranged, the vehicles were transported to Albania from various border points. Their colleagues in Albania then registered the cars.
It should be noted that Albania is not a member country of the Schengen Area and therefore the state databases have no connection. Thus, a vehicle that has been declared stolen in Greece can be freely registered in Albania.
The leader and the "forgers"
Regarding the role of the members of the organization, the 37-year-old suspected as the leader of the gang coordinated the actions of other members, took care of the storage of stolen tools and arranged their transportation to the Greek-Albanian border.
Then one of his associates took the stolen vehicles, in which he placed fake license plates and traffic permits and in consultation with the head of the organization transported them to Albania.
Two of the members of the group held the role of "forgers" of the organization. In particular, one of them, as a professional in the automotive industry, provided the correct registration numbers to mask any stolen vehicle with license plates that would match a vehicle of the same make, model and color.
The second, with many years of professional experience in graffiti, was fully aware of license plate specifications and produced fake license plates and documents identical to the original ones.
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