Police arrested gang of «Henchmen»
For more than three years, the gang of "henchmen" led by the 40-year-old MK, who is in custody in Korydallos prison, (and has the nickname "bald"), was terrorizing dozens of shop owners in Attica.
The gang, used to threaten the victims and their families, asking for money, beginning from 200 up to 700 Euros per month.
In some cases, when the store owners were not "cooperative," they did not hesitate to hit them. The "bald", who is serving a prison sentence of 17 years and has been accused in the past for death "contracts" and extortion along with other members of the gang, was selling protection to owners of bars and nightclubs in Ilion, Petroupoli, Gazi, Thisio, Mikrolimano and other areas of Piraeus.
The police, arrested nine people, two Greeks and seven Albanians, while are involved three regional members. Until now it has ascertained that they were blackmailing 24 shop owners, while according to the police, gang members were selling protection to a bar owner in the Rendi area since 2001, thus has given a total of 95,000 Euros! Indeed, According to the police, the gang had contacts with an Albanian paid assassin Mechi, arrested in Sepolia together with the leader of the gang, who attacked the nightclub in Mikrolimano.
They wanted the gang leader to be released from prison, in order to kill him
A few years ago when raged a gang "war" for control of the stores in Attica, three heads of rival gangs had put a priest from Piraeus to testify in favor of "bald" in order to get permission from prison of Larissa.
The heads of rival gangs did not want to help the 40-year old man, but to get him out of jail in order to kill him. The priest who worked with the henchmen was accused of perjury...
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