Police in Halkida dismantle group dealing in narcotics, anabolic drugs
Police in Halkida on Wednesday reported the arrest of two Greek men aged 32 and 37 years old, respectively, as suspected members of a gang selling narcotics and anabolic drugs in countries abroad. A 47-year-old is being sought in connection with the same case.
According to the findings of a police investigation, since the previous February the group had been selling drugs in various countries and sending them through the post, including to Germany, the United Kingdom, Croatia, Belgium and Italy.
Police sources told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) that three packages sent by members of the gang were intercepted in Chicago a few days earlier, one of which contained half a kilo of ketamine. The others contained 248 ecstasy pills and a substance banned by the US Food and Drug Administration. U.S. customs authorities, who had confiscated another two packages with illegal substances in February, informed the Hellenic Police.
In the meantime, 10 more such packages sent to various countries abroad were intercepted in April.
During a coordinated police operation on Tuesday in the homes and shops owned by the arrested suspects, police found and confiscated:
- A package containing an electronic device, with drugs hidden in its packaging.
- 885.4 grammes of cannabis
- 141 narcotic pills (including ecstasy)
- 1.0 gramme of ecstasy in crystalline form
- 184 anabolic pills
- 82 vials of anabolic drugs
- Eight syringes containing an anabolic substance
- three precision scales
- 700 euros and five phones
- a car and packaging material
- two computer hard disks and a device for air-tight packaging
The suspects have been charged with forming a criminal organisation and trafficking in narcotics and illegal anabolic drugs, as well as breaking sports laws. They will be led before a Halkida public prosecutor on Wednesday.
