Adulteration

Olive oil: With prices soaring, record-breaking incidents of adulteration and fraud in the EU

Record cases of possible fraud and mislabeling of olive oil are being recorded in the first quarter of the year in the European Union, as the price of the “liquid gold” soars to more than double 2018 levels, with production hit by extreme weather.

Apartment raid finds drug lacing lab, firearms

Police on Wednesday found an illegal drug lacing lab as well as multiple firearms in a central Athens apartment in connection with the arrest of a 65-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman.

The pair were arrested on the basis of intelligence on the Attica drug trade, specifically cocaine, heroin, and cannabis oil.