Hour by hour, the web is being unraveled regarding two cases involving the mafia organization in Crete. Two decisive events mobilized the police. One was the bomb that the mafia members planted targeting an active police officer, and the other was the traffic accident case in Souda, where a drunk driver of a luxury car killed a motorcyclist, and the police officers, despite his intoxication, let him leave.
The authorities’ investigation brings to light corruption issues, not only because the mafia ring members sought to profit from church property by pressuring a senior cleric who was an Abbot at a monastery, with the Abbot eventually joining the network and seeking to install a Metropolitan of his preference in the Metropolis, but there were also cases where organization members requested degrees be given to students without them attending higher education or taking exams, even at driving schools.
Regarding judges, in one or two cases, a former police officer convicted of serious criminal activity is heard saying “arrange the court of appeals for me so we have a favorable panel and favorable decision.”
Additionally, a case emerges of a criminal who repeatedly received favorable legal treatment, who despite being arrested for drugs would be released, and this happened repeatedly.
Crete mafia: They approached Kammenos to speak with White House about Metropolitan election
According to parapolitika.gr sources, within the over 2,000 pages that police submitted to the competent prosecutors, conversations emerge between one of the two brothers who allegedly hold leadership roles in the organization and the president of AN.EL. and former Defense Minister, Panos Kammenos. The purpose of the communication was to try to persuade him to mediate with the White House and the US government to give the “green light” for the election of a specific archimandrite as Metropolitan of Kydonia and Apokoronas.
The two brothers allegedly believed that Panos Kammenos, given his presence at President Trump’s inauguration during his first term, would have the ability to test the waters regarding the election procedures for metropolitan in the aforementioned metropolis. According to information from the police investigation and lawful wiretaps, the two brothers allegedly had contacts with a specific archimandrite whom they had agreed to promote.
