Six individuals were arrested by a police organized crime unit on Tuesday and charged with felony forgery and fraud offenses against the country’s main social security fund (EFKA), with losses from contributions avoidance and tax evasion estimated at more than two million euros.
Authorities said the suspects engaged, since 2014, in large-scale fraud and money laundering revolving around clothing manufacturing companies.
The suspects range from the ages of 36 to 55 and are Greek nationals.
According to the charges, the suspects had developed a network of nine clothing manufacturing companies, which operated successively and for only a short period of time but with the same pool of employees in order to conceal their actual economic activity and to avoid paying insurance contributions and direct and indirect taxes.
