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French authorities on Wednesday provided the Attica Police's narcotics division, the Hellenic Coast Guard and the Financial Crimes Squad with the names of 11 Greek nationals arrested on Tuesday in southern France in connection with a massive haul of cocaine.

According to sources, the suspects are all young men, none of whom has been previously convicted in Greece.

A total of 212 kilograms of cocaine were seized from a ship which was anchored in a harbor in Istanbul on June 13, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Anti-drug police conducted the search on a ship which was anchored in Ambarlı Harbor in Istanbul's Avcılar district following a tipoff.

Greek police have dismantled an 11-member drug trafficking ring in the prefect of Ilia in the Peloponnese. The gang had set up a delivery network transporting large amounts of narcotics, including cocaine and marijuana over the past six months in Amaliada and Athens. The suspects included 10 Albanian nationals aged between 22 and 40 and a 30-year-old Greek.

A total of 10 suspected members of a drug trafficking ring in Thessaloniki were arrested on Saturday in the northern city.

The 10 suspects arrested in the crackdown are believed to include the two ring leaders.

According to a police investigation, the racket has been dealing drugs, chiefly cocaine, across the country, but mainly in Thessaloniki, since the summer of 2015.

The Greek Police (ELAS) on Tuesday announced the arrest of 10 suspects believed to belong to a large drug-trafficking ring.

Authorities seized 173 kilograms of unprocessed cannabis and nearly 300 grams of cocaine that had not yet been diluted for sale during raids conducted in different parts of the Greek capital and in Ioannina in northwestern Greece, ELAS said in a press release.

Police at Athens International Airport on Monday detained two Brazilian nationals, a 24-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman, after determining that they had swallowed small packages of cocaine weighing more than 2 kilograms.

The two suspects arrived in Athens on a flight from Sao Paolo via Zurich.

Greek police arrested a Brazilian couple for attempting to smuggle 2,240 grams of cocaine through the ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’ Athens International Airport. The 24-year-old man and his 27-year-old female co-traveler, who landed in Athens from a Zurich flight, were caught after Greek authorities discovered they had hidden the drugs in 212 plastic bags, which they had swallowed.

Officers of the police's narcotics unit on Wednesday detained a 32-year-old Venezuelan woman after determining that she had swallowed nearly a kilogram of cocaine in 88 packages.

The woman arrived at Athens International Airport on a flight from Sao Paulo via Abu Dhabi.

Customs officials working at the airport in the Bulgarian capital have busted an international cocaine trafficking ring.

Initially, the officials found and seized express courier shipment with cocaine concealed in a speaker, which was destined for export from Bulgaria to Israel.

A criminal gang involved in a ring smuggling cocaine into Western Europe from Turkey has been cracked down in a specialized operation, police have said.

Bulgaria's Chief Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP) has seized 30 tons of cocaine in 25 packages across the country.