Cartel drug Based in Athens and “branches” in many European cities introduced large quantities of cannabis from Thailand and threw them into drug addicts.
Indeed, for the arrest of the “leader” in Athens, a member of the SDOE drug prosecution was transformed into a courier and handed over 2.5kg of drugs, who were hidden in dogs and arrived at the airport.
The “Courier” business
In collaboration with the Department of Drugs and Weapons of the SDOE Operational Directorate of Attica with the Department of El. Venizelos »was organized by a Tailand’s controlled postal parcel delivery operation with a final destination in our country, which contained 2 kg and 500 grams of hemps of cannabis.
The drugs were thoroughly hidden within five plastic packaging between dog nutrition packages, which had been used as a medium of concealment to mislead the law enforcement authorities.
Executive of the Drug Enforcement Department of the SDOE, pretending to be the distributor and assisted by an accompanying step of the Department’s executives, he went to the posting direction of the postal parcel for his surrender.
On the spot, a 38 -year -old native appeared on the spot, who displayed a police card, with the details of the recipient and after signing a form and received the controversial parcel, intervened and the perpetrator was arrested.
During the preliminary investigation, it was revealed that the police officer shown by the detainee had recently been stolen in the Omonia area and belonged to another person who had stated his loss to a competent security department.
Further investigation is being carried out to associate with other cases and investigating possible missions from abroad and other drug parcels using counterfeit recipients obtained from stylized documents.
Arrested wanted
A 23 -year -old resident who was wanted for a case of importing 10kg of raw cannabis through a postal parcel, derived from Spain with a stop in Germany and a final destination in our country, was arrested by authorities.
In this case, following a cooperation with the German law enforcement authorities, it was already arrested in September 2024 by the Drug Prosecution Department of the SDO of Attica another 20 -year -old resident who had appeared and received the postal parcel with the Drugs.
During the preliminary investigation, the co -operation – participation of the 23 -year -old resident, who escaped arrest and was sought after by issuing a arrest warrant, had also emerged.
Last week, the search of the 23 -year -old resident was voluntarily presented with the accompaniment of his lawyer to the service and was immediately arrested in the execution of the issued arrest warrant.