Directorate for Combating Organized Crime

Revelations continue by the Greek FBI regarding the criminal activities of the extortion ring, whose dismantling led law enforcement to launch an operation yesterday, Monday, December 16.

A man was found stabbed to death early Sunday outside the ISAP electric railway station in Agios Eleftherios, Attica.

Passersby discovered the body on the station steps around 5 a.m., authorities said.

The Directorate for Combating Organized Crime is leading the investigation, which is being treated as a homicide, according to state broadcaster ERT.

Dozens of police officers swarmed a housing project and a notorious hotbed of crime in the foothills of Mount Parnitha, north of the Greek capital, on Wednesday morning.

The operation at the former General Kapotas military base in the suburb of Menidi was launched by the newly established Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (DAOE), dubbed by police officials as the "Greek FBI."

A large cache of weapons and explosives was discovered yesterday, Monday (4/11), by the Sub-Directorate of Anti-Trafficking and Trade of Objects within the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime in the area of Western Attica.

An online leak of the names of hundreds of staff of a new much-touted Greek anti-crime unit has put the officers' lives at risk, the police said on Oct. 17.

The Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (DAOE), dubbed "Greek FBI," was recently established in Greece to tackle organized crime.

A police officers association says it is planning legal action after names and details of hundreds of officers from a new elite crime-fighting agency were published on the internet.

Dubbed the "Greek FBI," the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (DAOE) was launched Thursday to tackle organized crime activities including contract killings, fuel smuggling and money laundering.

A presidential decree establishing a new police directorate, dubbed the "Greek FBI" by high-ranking police and Citizen Protection Ministry officials, was published in the Government Gazette on Thursday.

Ten people from Belgium, the Netherlands and Romania were arrested in record drug seizure - 1,452 kilograms of heroin - in the Port of Constanta. According to Eurojust, it is about 10 suspects, who are part of a group of traffickers specialized in bringing large quantities of heroin to Europe.

The Specialized Prosecutor's Office, the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and the ODIHR-Vidin, with the support of the Gendarmerie Directorate at the Ministry of Interior, are investigating an organized crime group for human trafficking for begging (mainly in the Kingdom of Sweden) and money laundering.

Bulgaria's Specialised Prosecutor's Office and the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime disrupted a fake money printing factory, located in the basement of a hotel in Bulgaria's seaside resort of Sunny Beach. Four people were detained, including the hotel owner, who, according to the investigators, is also part of the criminal group.