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Police on Saturday were questioning two foreign nationals believed to have tried to smuggle more than 2 kilograms of cocaine into the country from South America.

Officers initially intercepted a 53-year-old woman at Athens International Airport on Friday and then apprehended her suspected connection, a 51-year-old man in the neighborhood of Patissia.

Three suspects have been charged on the Ionian island of Corfu with setting up a criminal gang to transport and distribute illegal drugs, authorities said on Thursday.

The charges were brought in the wake of an extensive police operation across the island that led to the dismantling of a cocaine trafficking network.

Security forces on Aug. 8 seized a total of 800 kilograms of cocaine in the western province of Kocaeli, one of the largest anti-drug operations in recent years.

Police at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport detained a German national trying to smuggle cocaine in capsules hidden in his stomach and intestine, a police source said on July 23.

Police said on Wednesday they had arrested the 54-year-old mastermind of a cocaine dealing gang after a two-year search.

The suspect had reportedly been dealing cocaine out of a restaurant he co-owns in the upmarket Kolonaki district of central Athens.

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Two Brazilian women, aged 23 and 24, were arrested at Athens International Airport on Sunday evening for trying to smuggle more that than 1.8 kilos of cocaine into the country, authorities said on Wednesday.

According to police, the women had swallowed 185 small packages containing a total of 1,845 grams.  They had arrived in Athens from Sao Paolo in Brazil via Lisbon.

Chinese police have seized 1.3 tons of cocaine from South America in the country's biggest ever haul of the drug, authorities said.

A police investigation has shed light into a clash between drug and arms dealers and anarchists in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, Kathimerini has learned. 

Meanwhile 29 Greek and Albanian nationals are to face charges in the wake of a major police crackdown in the area. 

The Colombian navy said Tuesday it has seized a massive shipment of cocaine in the northwest of Colombia.

According to the navy, 5.2 metric tons of the illicit drugs were found in a shipment of bananas in a port in the Uraba region after a tip from the Police.

The bananas were meant to be shipped to Europe.