"Your car warranty is due to expire.."
The suspects reportedly told senior citizens that their valuables weren't safe at their home or at the bank and that they would send police to collect them for safekeeping.
POLICE CONFISCATE MILLIONS
Citing police, the Rheinische Post reported that authorities had seized cash worth €1.7 million ($2 million) during the raids in early December, as well as 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of gold, 41 high-end cars and 87 properties including luxury homes and hotels totaling €105 million.
The newspaper said 38 people had been arrested earlier this month and 48 locations searched in addition to the call center, adding that the architects of the criminal operation had previously been expelled from Germany for criminal offenses.
"In this call center, there were members of families that lived in Germany before but were deported because of crimes," Thomas Jungbluth of the state criminal police in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia told the Rheinische Post. "They resettled in
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...Wolfgang Herrmanns from the state criminal office told the paper that police have "drained the swamp."
| Such an evocative image — does Herr Herrmanns know who used it before him? |
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