Criminal ring that was forging power of attorneys in order to extract money from deceased people’s bank accounts, has been dismantled by the police which so far has arrested three people.
Amongst the arrested is a 47 year old female notary and a 46 year old Paniliakos football player and 66 year old man, while the allegedly 42 year old man leader is still wanted, as well as and other possible members of the criminal ring.
Against them a prosecution was formed for the offenses of participation in a criminal organization, fraud, forgery and repeated violation of the laws of personal data.
More specifically, after investigating a complaint, it was established that on the 25/09/2014 the 66year old s arrested, accompanied by his 46 year old accomplice went into a bank branch and with their forged power of attorney documents of two men that have died in July of 2014, tried to withdraw a sum of money amounting to 160,000 euro from their joint bank account.
On midday of the 7/10/2014 once again, the 66 year old arrested visited the bank and received a check for 50.000 euro. After the transaction was completed he was arrested and so did the other two which were waiting outside the bank, not long after.
On them and in a search conducted to the 46 year old mans home, the police found and seized a check for 50,000 euro and a property purchase contract of dubious authenticity worth of 70,000 euro.
The 47 year old woman was imposed constraining order and will be making regular visits to police department, while against the 46 year old already was pending an arrest warrant for fraud.
Those arrested were taken to the Athens Misdemeanor Court Prosecutor.