The video shows armed police officers raiding inside the house where the members of the organization were hiding.
Reportage by Anna Marouli
New video records the big business of EL.AS. in the villa – “cartel” of Thessaloniki for the detection of three hundred kilos of cocaine.
The video shows armed police officers raiding inside the house where the members of the organization were hiding.
The drug lord in Colombia is said to be the 5th member of the international cocaine ring who is wanted after the arrest of its 4 members by police officers of the Thessaloniki Security Directorate in collaboration with office D. E. A. Athens and with the assistance of the Guardia di Finanza Reggio Calabria.
At least 10% of global drug trafficking, including all Colombian cartels, is “managed” by the wanted which has been identified, according to EL.AS officers. In fact, we are talking about a well-established “family business” with drugs as one of those arrested, The 38-year-old is his brother who is also a “big man” in drug trafficking in Europe.
At the same time, according to the same sources, the English authorities were looking for the 45-year-old arrested man as he had burned a man alive.
According to competent EL.AS officers, the quartet paid the amount of 2,000 euros per month for the villa- “cartel” where the large operation of EL.AS took place in the area of Scholari, Thessaloniki. However, the arrested drug traffickers were staying in Athens. They went to Thessaloniki when they were expecting loads of drugs.
The four arrested, aged 38, 48, 45 and 52, who were referred to the 4th special investigator of Thessaloniki for the load of 300 kilos of cocaine confiscated in the last 24 hours in Thessaloniki, as well as the wanted drug lord are all English nationals. more than 10,000,000 euros were obtained by the drug traffickers.
Previously, the prosecutor filed criminal charges against the 4 for drug trafficking, in the form of import, transfer and possession, professionally and in collaboration, as well as for forming and joining a criminal organization.
The above two offenses are a felony, while in addition the prosecution concerns the misdemeanors of possession of weapons and (as the case may be) violence against police officers.
The detainees asked for and received a deadline and will apologize next Wednesday while they remain in custody.
Drugs were smuggled in containerswhich contained a legal consignment of bananas from a Latin American country for further trafficking to European territory and Australia.
A case was filed against them for criminal organization, violation of the law on addictive substances, violation of the law on weapons and violence against officials and judges.
The dismantling of the circuit was preceded by a methodical and thorough investigation which revealed that the circuit is active in the trafficking of large quantities of cocaine, which it imports into Europe, but also to Australia from ports of Latin American countries, for further trafficking. .
In more detail, the above members of the criminal organizationwere arrested yesterday (June 9, 2022) in the area of the Municipality of Thermi, as part of a coordinated police operation, during which the trafficking of cocaine, which had been imported in the port of Thessaloniki, hidden in a container containing a legal cargo of bananas, was prevented.
What was found in the investigations
From the investigations carried out on the arrested, in I.X. A van-type truck, in a vehicle, in a luxury house they had rented, as well as in a house that lived in Attica, among others, were found and confiscated:
- 297 kg and 257 grams of cocaine, divided into 260 packages,
- pistol with a cartridge containing 9 cartridges,
- box containing 41 cartridges,
- 2 portable radios,
- 2 signal interferometers,
- 2 electronic positioning devices,
- EUR 1,000, as derived from drug trafficking,
- work gloves, insulating tapes, metal paper cutter and
- 11 mobile phones that they used for their illegal transactions as well as 3 mobile telephony connection packages.
It is noted that one of the arrested members of the criminal organization, in his attempt to escape, tried to disarm a police officer, while in addition the details of a fifth member of the ring, who is wanted, were identified.
In addition, it turned out that the members of the criminal organization were also involved in the trafficking of a container, which contained cocaine weighing a total of 654.3 kg, contained in 23 boxes of bananasand which was located by the Italian authorities on 11-04-2022 in a port of Italy.
Those arrested will be taken to the competent judicial authorities.
Congratulations Theodorikakou
The Minister of Citizen Protection Takis Theodorikakos, regarding the two great successes of the Greek Police, made posts on social media, expressing his satisfaction for the efficiency and professionalism shown by the police. This is the seizure of 300 kilos of cocaine in Thessaloniki and the arrest of a member of a child pornography ring. Features he wrote:
“Two great successes of ELAS: Arrest of a 43-year-old man for possession of 2.5 million pornographic files and confiscation of 300 kilos of cocaine in Thessaloniki. We continue dynamically with actions for the safety of the citizens “.
Two great successes of ELAS: Arrest of a 43-year-old man for possession of 2.5 million pornographic material files and confiscation of 300 kilos of cocaine in Thessaloniki. We continue energetically with actions for the safety of the citizens.
– Τάκης Θεοδωρικήκος (@theodorikakosp) June 10, 2022
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