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The sale value of the shipment with 254.5 kilos of high-quality cocaine, which was identified by the Greek judicial authorities in collaboration with the Drug Prosecutor’s Office (DEA) in Athens, following an operation in Attica, is estimated at tens of millions of euros. During the same operation, a 37-year-old Greek man was arrested, who is said to be a prominent member of an international network that was active in transporting large quantities of drugs from Latin America.
As it became known, the illegal cargo, originating from Ecuador, arrived in the port of Piraeus in the previous 24 hours in a container containing bananas. He was located by port officials with the assistance of customs officials and was placed under discreet surveillance. According to an announcement by the Hellenic Police, the 37-year-old man promised to receive the large quantity of drugs that were packaged in 220 packages and that would be distributed on behalf of the circuit both in the Greek and European markets. 
Police officers from the Thessaloniki Drug Prosecutor’s Office appear to have known of his movements and when he transported the six sacks of cocaine to an apartment in Koukaki last Tuesday, he was arrested. The same announcement indicates that at the time of his arrest, the 37-year-old man was armed, after a pistol with an expandable projectile cartridge was found inside the casing of his pants, while in his possession a magazine with nine rounds, a laser device attached to the pistol. magazine with 13 cartridges and two knives. 
This was followed by searches in apartments in Athens and northern Greece, which he allegedly used for the delivery and storage of medicines, where the amount of 36,000 euros, 21 mobile phones and 25 SIM cards, two laptops, a machine were seized. electrical packaging (empty), machine for counting money, security seals of transit containers with rope, as well as a vehicle allegedly used for the illegal operation of the circuit.
It is estimated that the 254.5 kilos of high purity cocaine, which were seized, will bring enormous benefits to traffickers and according to estimates with the addition of impurities they would exceed 90 million euros.
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