US Drug Enforcement Administration

Authorities have seized 64 kilograms of cocaine from inside a container at the port of Piraeus.

Acting on a tip off from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), an anti-drugs unit on Monday searched a container from Ecuador and found 58 makeshift packages containing the cocaine.

The drugs had an estimated market value of 2 million euros, the authorities said.

More than a decade after being exposed in a major sting operation that also involved the US Drug Enforcement Administration, most of the defendants in the Balkan Warrior cocaine trafficking case pleaded guilty, including chief defendant Dragan Tošić, according to a report by the news portal 24ur.com.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Dutch National Police (Politie), and the Swedish Police Authority (Polisen), in cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and 16 other countries have carried out with the support of Europol one of the largest and most sophisticated law enforcement operations to date in the fight against encrypted criminal activities, the EU p

Romania's organised crime prosecution body, DIICOT, on Thursday announced the capture at the Black Sea port of Constanta of a shipment of 1.4 tons of heroin, which officials called the second-largest haul of the drug in EU territory in recent years.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) under the Justice Department have conducted a special operation to uncover a criminal network that was engaged in trafficking cocaine from South America to Russia and Europe.

Cocaine on Aressa ship. Photo: Montenegro's Police Directorate

Montenegro's Police Directorate on Wednesday said that the arrest was part of a months-long international action initiated by Montenegrin, Serbian, Dutch and British law enforcement.

North Macedonia's Interior Minister, Nake Culev, on Thursday, said police seized a kilo of cocaine on Wednesday as part of an international drug-busting operation that had involved "several countries", while not naming them.

Attica Security's Anti-Drugs Squad unraveled an international drug trafficking ring, arresting two men and seizing 83 kilos of heroin during a raid in central Athens, according to state-run news agency ANA-MPA.
The gang imported drugs from Turkey and then sold them in Greece or redirected them in other EU countries.

Greek authorities seized a huge number Captagon pills from a freighter at Piraeus port on Wednesday, which may prove to be the largest haul ever achieved in the country.
The drugs were stashed inside 60 pallets loaded with lumber products found in three containers. Officials have so far counted 1.4 million pills in just one of the pallets. Counting is expected to take a few days.

The Serbian government announced that he on Tuesday in Washington DC with representatives of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).