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Two minors were arrested on Friday in the northern region of Halkidiki for peddling drugs at a high school dance. Police discovered the suspects at the venue with cocaine in their possession.

Six packages of cocaine, totaling 5.4 grams, along with 1,060 euros in cash and two mobile phones, were seized.

Port authorities at Igoumenitsa port, in northwest Greece, have seized a large quantity of drugs discovered on a refrigerated truck entering the country from Italy. The truck's driver, a 57-year-old Greek national, was arrested in connection with the incident.

The drugs, with an estimated market value exceeding €3 million, were discovered following a police dog sniff alert.

Greece's anti-drug authorities have arrested two Greek men suspected of being part of a transnational crime ring exporting crystal meth and MDMA to Australia, police said.

A 51-year-old Greek national and a 45-year-old foreign national were arrested in Rafina, East Attica, on Tuesday afternoon by port authority officers after receiving a package from Colombia containing cocaine.

According to the Coast Guard, officers had flagged a suspicious package at a courier company's office. It had been shipped from Bogota to Athens International Airport.

Three large Chinese vape companies are researching nicotine-like chemicals they think could serve as a substitute for nicotine in products like vapes, company officials said, but the health implications may still need "years" of investigation.

The National Organization for Medicines (EOF) is warning about three dietary supplements that, according to information from Spanish authorities, contain dangerous substances and are being distributed online.

They set off from the Netherlands with motorhomes and 130 kilos of ketamine and MDMA, intending to sell them to clients they had arranged to meet in Pelion. Four Ukrainians—three men and one woman (who reportedly was unaware of the drug trade)—permanent residents of the Netherlands, arrived in Pelion with two motorhomes and set up camp in the wider area of Kalá Nerá.

Greek police uncovered 21 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of one million euros, concealed in a container carrying bananas at the capital's port of Piraeus on Wednesday. 

The container, which originated in Ecuador, was deemed suspicious and X-rayed before police and sniffer dogs conducted a search.

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.

Four people have been arrested after hundreds of kilos of cocaine were found in a container at the port of Piraeus on Wednesday.