An employee of Oikos Nautou (the organisation for the medical care of sailors), who has been transferred to the Ministry of Education, appears to be the main player in a large-scale financial fraud against the organisation, which the office combating economic crimes has revealed and has already submitted to the justice. Six people were arrested in connection with the case, four of whom were apprehended at the scene while receiving the sum of 200,000 euro in marked banknotes from the owner of private clinics.
In particular, as is clear from the case file, the detainees attempted to seize nearly 1.1 million euro, using fake documents for the payment of obligations which Oikos Nautou had already paid. It seems that the 46-year-old employee, who is also a union leader, had contacted the businessman whom she knew from working at Oikos Nautou, offering to receive the illegal payments and then subsequently to divide the amount between themselves and other persons involved. The businessman in question had however turned to the authorities and, by prosecutor's order, a member of the office combating economic crimes had replaced him, pretending to be the businessman’s accountant who had to participate in the talks.
"Dz. G., an employee of Oikos Nautou, whom I know from previous cooperation with the Organisation in connection with the payment of amounts due to my company, called me on the phone and wanted to meet. (...) She offered me to be paid again outstanding payment orders, which I had submitted for payment to Oikos Nautou ", the businessman states before the authorities. "During our meeting, Dz. G. told me that she had the necessary ties within Oikos Nautou, using the expression "I have people there", and that, in a warehouse of the National Organisation for the Provision of Healthcare Services, there was a box of "forgotten" invoices issued in 2011 and 2012 which could be paid once again, although they had been paid already", reads the document submitted to the office combating economic crimes, which has been included in the case file. Also, according to the document,"The employee had said she would be able to make the payment to a bank account specified by the businessman". Elsewhere in the document it is mentioned that, "She had assured him that the incriminating evidence would disappear as Oikos Nautou would be set on fire."
In addition to including an undercover agent in the case, the authorities had ordered the interception of those involved as well as the video recording of the meetings between the businessman and the employee of the office combating economic crimes.
The recordings reveal that the damage to the state could have exceeded 5 million euro.
S: We have required 5 million euro to pay the clinics and will require more in October. L: And more. T: For the next. S: You, I want to pay... To do the job to the amount of 5 million euro which, as soon as I receive them... T: In October. S: You are to plan the second. L: And I will keep part of the 5 million euro.
After talking with the authorities and with the support of the agent of the office combating economic crimes, the businessman did what the detainees had told him to do to obtain the money from Oikos Nautou. When he finally received the first sum of money in a bank branch, he appointed a meeting with the identified offenders to give them half of the amount as was agreed. The money was marked and, in the clinic of the businessman on 1 November, it was given to the employee and another co-accused. The authorities apprehended them both upon leaving the clinic as well as two other persons waiting in a car near the hospital and another two, but elsewhere.
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