EL.AS launched an investigation into a burglary of five bank branch safes that occurred in July 2022.

According to information provided by the Greek police, three foreigners were named as the perpetrators of this incident. At the same time, investigations uncovered the activities of an international network involved in the theft of bank safes..

The three defendants identified by the authorities are members of this group.

EL.AS announcement.

The case of the theft of five safes from a bank vault in the Nea Smyrni area, which occurred on July 8, 2022, was solved by the Property Crime Department of the Attica Security Directorate.

Three foreigners aged 46, 42 and 46 were recognized as malefactors, against whom a criminal case was initiated on the creation and entry into a criminal organization, as well as cases of embezzlement.

In the course of the investigation of the case under consideration and after a thorough and thorough investigation by the preliminary investigation authorities, together with the international prosecution authorities, it turned out that the three defendants are members of a transnational mobile criminal group specializing in bank theft.

Thus, the activities of an international criminal group in our country were discovered and confirmed in the above burglary case, which was part of their overall organized planning of actions.

With regard to the methodology followed by the defendants in the above case, the defendants originally entered our country a few days earlier in order to study the alleged targets.

After selecting a target store, they visited the store several times over the course of three days to map the area, as well as videotape it for further close monitoring of security measures.

Divided into roles, they entered the store one by one wearing surgical masks, pretending to be customers.

Exactly following their plan, they reached the vault undetected, broke open the (5) safes, and took the jewels they contained.

They left the store one by one and took separate escape routes, where they met at the farthest point from the store, talking to each other on the phone in between.

They left the country the same day, flying to a country in the European Union.

The case was referred to the Athenian Public Prosecutor’s Office for the issuance of arrest warrants, both national and international.