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ELAS: Details Revealed About the Gang That Ransacked Homes in the Southern Suburbs Posing as Technicians

They targeted elderly victims, deceiving them as electricity company employees to gain entry into their homes. While distracting them, they stole money and valuables

Newsroom August 23 08:20

The identity details and photographs of four Greek citizens, members of a criminal organization that committed thefts from homes of elderly people in areas of the southern suburbs of Attica pretending to be employees of an electricity company.

Their identities are as follows: 

ALKO George of Ioannis and Areti, born 15-3-1984 in Ano Liosia Filis, Attica,


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MUSTAFA Antonis of Chrysovalantis and Ioanna, born on 28-1-2002 in Athens,


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RAMMO Konstantinos-Mario of Kyriakos and Antonia, born on 19-6-1988 in Athens,


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DIAMPANIS Konstantinos of Panagiotis and Dorothea, born on 21-1-1989 in Athens.


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This disclosure, according to the relevant Prosecutor’s Order, is aimed at investigating, detecting and prosecuting crimes of a similar nature, committed by the accused and their accomplices against other victims, preventing threats to public safety and protecting the community.

In this context, citizens are requested to contact the telephone numbers 210-9692920/933 of the Security Sub-Directorate of South-Eastern Attica and 210-6411111 of the Attica Security Directorate, for any relevant information. It is noted that the anonymity and confidentiality of communication is guaranteed.

Their Means of Action 

As revealed by the preliminary investigation, the defendants, at least since June 2024, had formed and joined a group with continuous activity and distinct and alternating, on a case-by-case basis, roles among its members.

Specifically, as to their modus operandi, the defendants, mostly in the early morning or midday hours, would locate their prospective victims at the time they returned to their homes. They would select elderly persons whom they would deceive, pretending to be employees of an electricity company and convince them to allow them to enter their homes.

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After securing entry into the homes and keeping their victims busy, they would artificially remove sums of money and valuables from inside the homes. In order to maximize their loot, they would convince the elderly to wrap sums of money and jewelry in aluminum foil to “protect” them from the impending work and then remove them.

After searches at the homes and in the possession of the accused, the sum of money of -350- euros, a mobile phone, as well as various jewelry, valuables, and accessories were found and seized.

From the preliminary investigation so far -8- cases of theft from the homes of elderly people in the areas of Glyfada, Vouliagmeni, and Voula have been detected. The investigation to ascertain the full scope of their criminal activity continues.

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