prosecution for felonious felonies practiced Prosecutor of Alexandroupolis To five cops Department of the Border Guard Didimotihos, which were detained yesterday by the internal affairs bodiesafter many months of research and monitoring, to facilitate the entry of illegal immigrants into the country.

In particular, against five police officers (one constable and four chief constables) a criminal case has been initiated offenses related to facilitating the entry of third-country nationals without control, leadership, formation and membership in a criminal organization, bribery of an employee, abuse of power, transfer from abroad of third-country nationals who are not allowed to enter Greece and violation of official secrecy.

class for address of the criminal organization this was reported to one of the security chiefs, who is said to be the head of the group and gives instructions to the others, after talking to the four foreign defendants living in Türkiye and reported the arrival of illegal immigrants at the border.

In particular, according to the study, a particular guard had first contact with one of them. human traffickers in turkey and he gradually deceived others.

The defendants denied the accusations, but by order of the prosecutor, they were detained and handed over to the investigator Orestiadas, and from Friday morning, June 2, they begin to apologize. At the same time, a report from the Internal Affairs Service from the Hellenic Police Headquarters is expected to initiate disciplinary proceedings and be suspended.

Seconded to EYP

An interesting point, according to information from the headquarters of the Greek army, is that three of the five arrested were assigned to the EMP in 2018.where they served for about a year.

It is noted that the investigation of the SVD began after an anonymous statement about the suspicious activities of the detainees and was followed by other, also anonymous appeals. Law enforcers do not exclude that the applicants police officerswho, by the behavior of those arrested, realized that something was wrong.

According to competent sources, the five defendants, while carrying out their main mission as border guards preventing foreigners from approaching the border and attempting to cross into Greek territorychose shifts at specific moments and hours, showing excessive zeal and taking full guard of their area of ​​​​responsibility, sometimes saying that they didn’t need cameras or FRONTEX.

In fact, in one case, one of the accused, in his free time and with a fever, went on duty and worked a regular shift at a border checkpoint.

According to the information,incorruptibleEL.AS, which has been investigating the case since October last year, managed, mainly after January, to record conversations between police officers and traffickers and collect the information they need to carry out yesterday’s operation and detain the accused.

In recorded phone contacts they can be heard talking to people speaking in broken Greek.

However, there are no recorded conversations about them. cash reward except for some in which they can be heard talking about suitcases and one in which one of them says he can’t justify the money to buy a car.

However, after the discovery of significant sums of money in euros and other currencies, during searches of houses, as part of the preliminary investigation, there were reports of purchases of estates and expensive agricultural equipment, in connection with which a thorough investigation is being carried out into the whereabouts of the five defendants and their financial transactions to determine whether they are justified or not.

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