More and more details come to light about circuit of the Town Plans in Rose who were obtaining illegal and fake building permits.
So far There have been 7 arrests made and each member of the Circuit of the Town Planning in Rhodes to have their own role in the organization. By the arrested Five are executives of the island’s construction serviceof which one with the position of Deputy Director and the other Heads of Departments, as well as two individuals with related professional activity (architect and civil engineer).
In the case file formed against them for – as appropriate – criminal organization, forgery, employee bribery, employee bribery, influence marketing, false certificate, breach of duty, as well as infringement of weapons and antiquity laws, There are still 21 people included.
The private architect, taking advantage of his position and role, guided the coordination of actions and managed to integrate the new manager of the organization into the organization, ensuring his full submission to his commands and directing the operation of the service in accordance with the aspirations of criminal activity.
At the same time The private civil engineerIn direct and constant communication with the service executive, he created the necessary background for the illegal issuance of building permits, ensuring the possibility of implementing projects that did not meet the legal conditions.
The role of each member of the circuit
Indicatively, in terms of the role of each member, it emerged that:
The private architect, It had a coordinating role and, by taking advantage of its position, issued irregular or falsified building permits, arbitrary constructions and reduction of fines imposed by the Building Service, as well as the general management of urban planning cases that had legitimacy problems. Its action was carried out in close cooperation with the officials involved, who took advantage of their positions to facilitate illegal actions.
The Deputy Director of the Building Service, who was recruited by the architect and acted according to his requirements and instructions.
The employee responsible for the service file He maintained the records available to the architect, allowing access to building files and books, which in many cases were modified or replaced, taking as a price for each such record of -5,000 euros. At the same time, the architect engineer, taking advantage of that he had a stamp of the service, was forgery of licenses, extending their duration of validity or amending the issuance dates. Finally, the employee informed the architect if someone was looking for a folder he was handling and did not hand over him without his permission, protecting him from possible detection of irregularities.
The Head of the Department of Issuing Building Licenses, It received unfair benefits in order to either make fake versions or revisions of building permits, which would be differently impossible, or to intervene in ex -post registrations with past dates that modified the power of licenses. In addition, due to its position on the Council of Urban Planning and Challenge, it could affect the final outcome of cases, consulting, at the same time, the architect, resolve any irregularities that would arise.
The Head of the Construction Control DepartmentIn addition to working with the rest of the involved, he had developed his own methodology of action, checking in areas with illegal or arbitrary tasks, where he imposed fines or even demolition in the event of self -detection of arbitrary work. In this way he created the conditions for his approach to the project engineers involved in order to achieve a more “compromise” solution. This solution often included the imposition of smaller fines or the removal of interruption of work on a monetary exchange. The unfair economic benefit he received has resulted in his behavior conversion in relation to the initial actions of penalties.
The other building service employee, He was in charge of informing the architect about the conduct of autopsy checks, in order to protect the organization’s interests.
The private -engineer was recommended to interested parties by the Head of the Department of Publishing, In order to take over the management of legitimacy cases, while at the same time, in cooperation with the boss, he maintained pending applications in the relevant electronic information system, jointly gaining additional benefits when implementing similar requests, when a customer came up.
From the survey the members of the organization To carry out cases, it required a remuneration, which even reached 100,000 euros.
Indeed, the members of the organization were particularly careful in order to make the work of the Authorities difficult, taking protection measures, limiting their telephone communications, or when necessary used online applications, while at the same time, they held live meetings outside the service.
Overall, the investigations were found and seized: 613,535 euros, 78 gold pounds, 2 hand watches, 19 bronze coins, 3 deposit books, numerous branded female bags, numerous building documents, numerous photocopies Folders from the Town Planning Archive, with affairs building documents, a service book with building permits, 26 service seals of various impressions and-5 stamps with former employees, 13 mobile phones, 2 weapons and 2 knives and 2 knives.