A criminal group that smuggled alcoholic beverages was dismantled
Thessaloniki: A criminal group was dismantled by the Economic Police Sub-Directorate of Northern Greece, whose members were active in the illegal import of illicit alcoholic beverages from Bulgaria to our country and their further sale on the domestic market, for the purpose of illegal financial gain.
For the case, arrested yesterday, Monday 28 March 2022, after a coordinated police operation in the area of Thessaloniki, 3 peopleA case was filed against them for criminal organization, forgery, as well as violations of the National Customs Code. The case file includes another person, accused of the same offenses.
As it turned out, the team members:
- initially stored bottles of alcoholic beverages in their homes,
- then, using appropriate material equipment (scrapers – ethyl alcohol – heat sealing devices), they affixed fake labels with Greek characters on the bottles, in order to resemble Greek, while
- then you had them in a network of customers (small market) in the prefecture of Thessaloniki.
In total, from searches carried out, found and confiscated:
- 2,369 bottles of illicit alcoholic beverages,
- 27,787 counterfeit labels of various spirits,
- truck and 2 passenger vehicles as well
- material equipment for scraping and heat sealing of forged labels.
The arrested, with the case file against them, were taken to the competent Prosecutor’s Office.
It is reminded that citizens can contact, anonymously or anonymously, the telephone number 11012 or the electronic addresses [email protected] & [email protected] of the Economic Police Directorate, to provide information or to report illegal activities and activities of the sector economy, public property, as well as social and insurance welfare and rights.
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