Her leadership police refused to award department officers Pursuit of robbers that in the summer of 2021 they managed to find intact two world-famous and valuable Paintingsstolen nine years earlier from National Gallery. Although the investigation of the “theft of the century”, as well as the seizure of works of art, was described Picasso, Montriant And Moncalvo (the only one of the three projects that was not found), became the main topic of domestic and foreign media, the leadership recently refused to reward the officers who led this case.

Let’s take things from the beginning. A few months after the arrest of the confessed to the theft, George SarmatsopoulosThe Attica Security Directorate, headed by Lieutenant General Petros Ceferis, officially proposed to award the police cross to the officers who conducted the investigation, namely the head of the department Vasiliki SergiannisDeputy Head of Department Christos Xipolia and their immediate supervisor Gregory Zacharakis. “Using appropriate and necessary means and appropriate investigative techniques, they were able to obtain a confession from the perpetrator regarding the specific theft and the key elements without which it would not have been possible to return the specific paintings,” the introductory document to the criminal case says. body guidance. “The arrest of the perpetrator and his subsequent pre-trial detention generated very positive reviews from the world’s largest media, with publications and reports in the electronic media about the service (including the Attica Security Directorate) and the Greek police in general.”

The former head of the body, Konstantinos Skumas, rejected the proposal and the hierarchy’s positive recommendations.

As stipulated by internal procedures, the document of recommendation was first sent to the head of the Attica Police Headquarters, who spoke in favor of the award. police cross proposed officers. He signed the introductory document, which he forwarded to his immediate superior, the Inspector of Southern Greece. He gave a positive opinion, as did the chief of staff and the third in the hierarchy of the corps. But when the document fell into the hands of the leader, the facts changed.

disagreement

Recently retired Konstantinos Skumasfor unknown reasons, refused to advocate for the Police Cross, the second most important police medal after Andragatias Police Station. Mr Skumas awarded an “honorable mention” to Vasiliki Sergiannis, head of the hacking department, and her supervisor, Grigoris Zacharakis, and a “pleasure” to the rest of the study participants, the lowest ethics fees stipulated in the body, along with praise. The persons directly concerned were officially informed of the outcome of the case only last Wednesday. And although on “K” questions refused to comment on the management’s decision in any way, information says that in their private conversations they do not spare negative criticism of the outcome of the case, which nevertheless has been described as one of the greatest successes of EL.AS. for the last few year s.