Greek agencies release footage of raid on drug ring sending pills to Islamic State jihadists (photos-videos)

The Greek financial crime unit (SDOE) released video footage and photos of Greek enforcement agencies raiding a compound in the area of Loutropyrgos, located 30km northwest of Athens, where they confiscated 635,000 amphetamine based pills planned to be shipped to Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq. In a coordinated sting operation between the Attica-Aegean regional Drug Enforcement Unit of the Financial Crimes Unit (SDOE), the Coast Guard and Greek police busted a drug ring which had set up manufacturing labs of a synthetic drug called “Captagon”. It is the largest confiscation of illegal narcotics in the Greek market, the total value of which is estimated to have amounted to 10 million Euros. The Greek authorities informed the press during a briefing that two Albanian nationals, one Turk and a Greek had been arrested during the raid, while three more suspects, a Greek, a Turk and an Albanian are still at large. The illegal labs were located in a detached house in the area of Loutropyrgos, were the pills, which were stashed in a hiding place, would be transported to Koropi. The pills would then be shipped from Koropi to Turkey in speedboats, from where police estimate they would be distributed to the Middle East. Authorities also confiscated a truck and other chemical compounds used to make the drug, as well as a carbine, 5 kilos of cannabis and a hunting rifle.