US Drug Enforcement Agency

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.

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.

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) on Saturday announced the breakup of an international racket believed to have been smuggling large quantities of cocaine into Europe and northwest Africa from the Caribbean nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines after seizing 1.18 tons of the drug from rented apartments in the region of Aetolia-Akarnania.

Three men were arrested in Athens on Tuesday after police raided a home in the southern suburb of Voula and seized 230 kilos of cocaine.

Police said that one of those arrested is a Greek man from Kalamata. The other two suspects are foreign nationals: a Colombian-born Canadian citizen and a man from Mexico. They are alleged to be members of an international drug smuggling ring.