US EditionCocaine-Infused Leather Prompts Arrest of Gang Smuggling Drugs From Latin America to Greece
- Greek police dismantled a gang in late May that smuggled cocaine hidden in leather and clothes from Ecuador and Bolivia into Greece.
- The operation followed months of police monitoring after a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration tip-off, revealing a shift in smuggling methods from South America.
- Authorities seized over 300 packages containing salt mixed with more than 800 kilograms of cocaine, processed in laboratories in Athens and Pikermi.
- Authorities have detained eleven individuals, including citizens from Bolivia, Spain, Colombia, Cyprus, and the Dominican Republic, who are scheduled to face prosecutorial proceedings on Friday.
- Police said the gang’s use of cocaine-soaked clothes and salted leather signals evolving trafficking tactics aiming to evade detection into Europe.
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Greece arrests gang smuggling cocaine-infused leather from Latin America
ATHENS - Greek police have dismantled a gang that had been hiding cocaine in sheets of leather that were smuggled from Bolivia to Greece on container ships, police officials said on Friday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Drug criminals are avoiding the now heavily guarded port of Rotterdam. Due to a newly popular smuggling method, cocaine can suddenly enter along the entire Dutch coastline, warns customs boss Nanette van Schelven. She also sees how cocaine is currently entering Europe through all the cracks and crevices. "Other countries are terribly shocked."
In Guayaquil, the National Police and the Ecuadorian Navy dealt a new blow to drug trafficking networks.
Five Greeks, three Albanians, one Bolivian, one Georgian and one Spaniard among those arrested
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