Fuel smugglers linked to underworld

Investigators have linked members of a racket arrested on Tuesday for fuel smuggling and adulteration, to underworld businessmen with criminal histories for related offenses.

One of the facilities used by the 20 suspects was a truck parking lot in the Aspropyrgos area. The facility was previously linked to one of the most powerful members of the so-called Greek Mafia who was murdered at his country home in Dervenochoria, Viotis, on Easter 2022. Trucks owned by him and parked in that particular area had been the target of an arson attack in June 2023.

The investigation also revealed that one of the trucks found in that parking lot belonged to a businessman who has been prosecuted more than once for fuel smuggling. There are strong indications that the said truck was transporting adulterated fuel to a petrol station in the center of Athens. The petrol station is owned...