Otologicals

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.

Police anti-narcotics units in Patra, western Greece, have unraveled a network that distributed drugs within the city's prison and arrested a 48-year-old senior correctional officer.

They also charged nine inmates - seven Albanians and two Greeks.

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.

A 39-year-old Nigerian national was arrested at Athens International Airport on Friday as he attempted to smuggle sachets containing cocaine which he had swallowed.

The man was apprehended upon arrival to Athens on a flight from Amsterdam via Zurich.

Police said the man had swallowed 29 sachets containing 340 grams of cocaine.

Police in Istanbul have seized one kilogram of drug-filled condoms found in a man's stomach at Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport after obtaining information gathered on drug smugglers, Doğan News Agency has reported.  

Police on Jan. 24 detained the 45-year-old Ecuadorian man, Alfredo Demeceo, in the airport, but could not draw conclusions after initial searches. 

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.

No, I'm not talking about chemical weapons. I don't have any theories regarding the claim that "they have spread viruses through the air." But if you constantly catch the flu, have frequent back pains or have dizziness, or if your stomach has become more sensitive, then, yes, the reason could be the trauma you experienced during the attempted coup.

Istanbul police detained two suspects of Nigerian origin who were trying to smuggle drugs in condoms that they later swallowed in Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport on Nov. 11, Doğan News Agency has reported.

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.