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Customs teams confiscated over a ton of Captagon drug pills at the İskenderun Port in southern Turkey, the biggest seizure of its kind, the country's trade minister said on May 16. 

A total of 1,072 kilograms (2,000 pounds) of Captagon drugs - more than 6.2 million pills - were seized during search by customs officials of Hatay province from May 15-16, Mehmet Muş said on Twitter.

The ship MSC Gayane at the Port of Philadelphia, US. Photo:US Customs & Border Protection

The US Department of Justice said Penda pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possession of cocaine, with intent to distribute it, on a vessel under US jurisdiction.

The Court of Appeal at the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta on Thursday upheld the nine years and four months prison sentences handed to two Serbian drug traffickers, Tode Krstic and Nenad Cvetkovic, by the Tulcea tribunal on November 13, 2020.

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Three foreign nationals, two Albanians and one Croatian, arrested last Friday in the northern port city of Thessaloniki in possession of 300 kilograms of cocaine are to appear on Tuesday before an investigative magistrate.

Greek police have seized a haul of 324 kilograms (714 pounds) of pure cocaine and arrested three people in the northern city of Thessaloniki.

They said Saturday that the suspects planned to mix the cocaine with other substances and sell it in Greece and other markets. It would have had a street value of 100 million euros.

Customs officers found more than 58 kg of cocaine during a specialized operation at the port of Varna-West.

Italian police began probing a gang of suspected drug dealers, who decided to hide cocaine in Italy’s boar-infested countryside

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) made at least 17 arrests on Tuesday in the area of Agia Varvara, western Athens, in a large-scale operation by its narcotics division in which officers from the EKAM counterterrorism unit also participated.

Searches were carried out in 15 houses which yielded quantities of drugs (over a kilogram of cocaine and ecstasy tablets) and large sums of money.

Two police officers on a narcotics operation in southern Athens were injured on Thursday, with one of the pair described as being in critical condition, according to reports.