Two Bulgarian citizens have been arrested in Greece after demanding a large sum of money from an elderly woman in Thessaloniki in connection with a supposed accident involving her daughter, Greek state television ERT reported.
The two men, aged 25 and 30 respectively, were arrested when they went to collect the sum of 73,000 euros from the 75-year-old woman. However, she had sensed the fraud and the police were informed to expect the fraudsters on site.
Earlier, their accomplices had called the victim with the story that her daughter had been injured in an accident and needed money for her treatment.
The investigation identified 11 more similar cases of fraud, from which the detainees are accused of having fraudulently obtained over 70 thousand euros.
It is believed that they are members of a criminal organization based in Bulgaria and acted as messengers for its leader, because they stayed in hotels in Thessaloniki and came only to receive the money.