A public prosecutor has filed six felony charges and one misdemeanor against 61 individuals arrested in a large-scale police operation targeting dozens of petrol stations involved in fuel smuggling and meter tampering.
The charges include forming, participating in, and managing a criminal organization, as well as aggravated fraud against the Greek state and private individuals, resulting in damages exceeding €120,000 through complicity and repeated offenses. Additionally, the suspects face charges for the unauthorized modification and tampering of fuel pumps.
Two case files have been compiled and forwarded to the investigating judge for further inquiry.
Authorities have discovered a total of 220 gas stations with tampered pumps, after initially identifying 44 stations with altered pumps, supplied by two major companies.
Additionally, two of the implicated gas stations are owned by a close relative of a member of the so-called Greek Mafia, findings have shown.
Besides arresting 61 individuals, authorities have seized €500,000 in cash as part of the operation.
