Accused of ATM burglaries set free due to lack of court jurisdiction

Due to the lack of jurisdiction of the court, four defendants who were detained for participating in a criminal group, which committed burglaries in ATM and houses.

The Single-Member Criminal Appeal Court of Thessaloniki, before which they were referred to stand trial, ruled that it was incompetent to try the case, because the multi-member criminal group is additionally attributed that he interfered with the frequencies of EL.AS, which he was monitoring.

The provisions of the specific offense – according to factors of the trial – fall under the jurisdiction of the Joint Jury Court (JJC) and under these circumstances, the case was withdrawn from the docket, with the consequence that four of the defendants were released from prison with restrictive conditions, as they completed the limit of temporary detention (in their case 12 months). The file will be forwarded to Prosecutor’s Office of Thessaloniki, in order to initiate the process of referring them to the competent Criminal Court (MOD). A total of nine people are accused of the case, two of whom remain in pre-trial detention since they have not reached the limit of temporary detention (they were arrested later), while most of them had previously engaged the prosecuting authorities.

Dislocation of the criminal group EL.AS had announced. last May, when most of its alleged members were arrested during an operation in Nikopoli Thessalonikiwith the assistance of the EKAM team.

In the investigations carried out, four cars, two stolen motorcycles and a license plate, specialized tools – electro-hydraulic expanders for opening safes and ATMs, burglary tools, a transceiver tuned to EL.AS frequencies, an improvised oxygen cutting circuit with a gas-oxygen bottle were located and confiscated. , a disassembled pistol, cartridges and magazine.

Source: APE-MEP

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