After a methodical and systematic investigation by the Narcotics Prosecution Department of the Volos Security Sub-Directorate, a criminal group whose members were active in the trafficking of cannabis in the wider area of ​​Magnesia was dismantled.

In the context of a coordinated police operation that began on 17-03-2023 in the morning hours in areas of Magnesia, -3- local men were arrested, against whom a case file was filed, as the case may be, for the establishment of a criminal group, violation of the drug legislation, legislation on weapons, legislation on the protection of antiquities and cultural heritage in general, legislation on radio stations and legislation on personal data.

In addition, the case file also includes -11- people, i.e. -10- local men and -1- local woman, accused of violating the drug legislation, as buyers-recipients of narcotic substances.

Regarding the activity of the criminal group, its members, at least since mid-November 2022, were active in the storage and subsequent trafficking of raw cannabis, with the aim of obtaining an illegal financial benefit.

As it turned out, to cover their illegal activity, among other things, they had installed surveillance cameras in the places where they hid the narcotic substances, they carried out the buying and selling of narcotic substances mainly during the night or early morning hours, in isolated locations, they had been equipped with portable radios- transceivers, while during the transport of quantities of narcotic substances, one of them assumed the role of the transmitter and another the role of the carrier.

Regarding the timing of the arrests, a coordinated police operation was carried out yesterday in which police officers from the Drug Enforcement Department and the Crime Prevention and Suppression Team (OPKE) of the Volos Security Sub-Directorate as well as the Zagora Police Station participated, locating the members of the criminal group, while in legal investigations carried out, with the assistance of a police dog, the following were found and confiscated:

quantities of raw cannabis, total weight -10,455.02- grams, divided into -13- plastic containers,
-9- mobile phones,
the amount of -7,230- euros,
-6- precision scales,
-15- wireless transceivers, of which -10- portable and -5- fixed,
-5- surveillance cameras,
-1- plastic container with many cannabis seeds,
-3- I.X. passenger cars and
-2- motorcycles.

In addition, one of the arrested persons was found and seized:

-3- illegally possessed shotguns,
-3- knives, of which two of the combat type and one of the “butterfly” type,
-1- wooden rod,
-116- cartridges of various calibers,
-1- military rifle magazine,
-3- metal detectors, the legal possession of which had expired, as well as
-12- aged metal coins of various types and -1- aged-oxidised ring.

Those arrested will be taken to Mr. Plemmeliodiki Volos Prosecutor.