About 300 kg of pure cocaine was seized by the American DEA in cooperation with the Greek police in the city of Thessaloniki. The drugs were hidden in a consignment of bananas coming from South America.
Greek media report that it was the American DEA that informed the Greek police about the drug shipment and the latter intervened at the moment when the narcotics started to be unloaded in the traffickers' warehouse.
Police have arrested four British citizens as part of this operation. Two of those arrested are leaders of an international drug trafficking network
It is learned that the seized cocaine was worth over 10 million euros. A pistol, two GPS devices, as well as two cars, an engine and a van were seized as material evidence.
Greek police in the framework of this operation have handcuffed four British citizens, members of the drug trafficking organization. According to the Greek authorities, this organization is related to another amount of drugs of 654 kg of cocaine seized in April this year in Italy.
Police have seized:
• 297 kg and 257 grams of cocaine, divided into 260 packages,
• pistol containing 9 cartridges,
• box containing 41 cartridges,
• 2 portable radios,
• 2 signal interferometers,
• 2 electronic positioning devices,
• 1000 euros, income from drug trafficking,
• work gloves, insulating tapes, metal paper clippers and
• 11 mobile phones that they used for their illegal transactions as well as 3 packages of mobile phone connections.