“She was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” claims the lawyer of a former reality TV star who was arrested along with 19 others for involvement in an illegal fuel and liquor fraud ring.
According to the 27-year-old’s lawyer, Dimitri Zorba, the former reality TV actress is accused, among other things, of participating in a criminal organization and money laundering and declares herself innocent.
“My client was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has been working at this gas station for two months now. He knew nothing about the adulteration of fuel and the adulteration of beverages,” he stressed.
The former reality star is in custody and will be brought before the investigating officer on the morning of Monday, March 11 to give her own explanations regarding the offenses she is facing.
According to her lawyer, the 27-year-old is in custody because she was at the time of the attack on the gas station.
“This particular girl, because she was working at the gas station in question, at the time of the police raid, she was arrested along with all the others. On Monday she will give all the necessary explanations and her innocence will be proven,” he adds.
Police authorities have so far arrested a total of 20 people who had set up a fuel and liquor fraud ring through six petrol stations.
The reference point of the criminal organization is an illegal factory in Aspropyrgos where the solvents for fuel adulteration were traded.
How the spiral worked
The chemical solvents for their coil were supplied from Bulgaria.
At the same time, taking advantage of the legal operation of a disinfectant company, the circuit also operated an illegal factory for the manufacture of chemical solvents suitable for fuel adulteration.
For this purpose, the alleged leader of the criminal organization had set up three independent sub-groups, with appropriate infrastructure and technical equipment.
Of these, two were involved in channeling chemical solvents to gas stations, – either by importing them from Bulgaria – or by operating the illegal production plant, while the third was in the transportation of illegal ethyl alcohol to distilleries, through which it was then channeled into domestic market for consumption.
The spiral used two storage areas in Western Attica, where the chemical solvents from Bulgaria first arrived and then ended up in the parking area, where the fuel adulteration took place.
At the same time, in another area there was the headquarters of a company, which, due to its activity, procured all the necessary chemical materials for the production of illegal chemical solvents, which immediately afterwards ended up in the same parking area, so that they could be transported by liquid fuel tankers to the gas stations.
With regard to the supply and trafficking of ethyl alcohol, the network maintained by the alleged ringleader for fuel smuggling was exploited and the quantities were stored in the same premises, from where they were collected by a member of the third sub-group, either in his own vehicle or in vehicles by a rental company, so that they can then be delivered to customers distilleries and businesses selling alcoholic beverages.
According to ELAS, the quantities of illegal chemical solvents trafficked by the first subgroup amount to 111 tons and by the second to 150 tons.
Those arrested, with the case file filed against them, were taken to the competent Prosecutor and referred to an investigator.
The loss caused to the public coffers by lost profits exceeds 1,200,000 euros.
Source: newsit.gr
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