Undercover operation leads to major cocaine bust

Four men were arrested on Wednesday as authorities seized 210 kilograms of cocaine that was transferred from Ecuador to Piraeus port in a container with frozen shrimps.

The case involved an undercover operation lasting at least a month, during which a police agent managed to infiltrate the ranks of the drug ring.

The bust was made by the Attica Narcotics Sub-Division, with the assistance of the financial crime unit (SDOE) and the US Drug Enforcement Agency and occurred amid record seizures of cocaine at European ports over the past year.

The four men, three Albanians and a Greek, have long rap sheets involving weapons, ammunition and fenethylline (Captagon) pills.

They were nabbed after the undercover agent convinced them that he could get the drugs out of the port and transport them to a safe place where they could collect them. The agent led the...