The number of people arrested for their involvement in a drug trafficking ring in the northern cities of Thessaloniki, Volos and Agrinio has so far reached 35. Police reports said that a further four policemen were added to the three already arrested and implicated in this case, including the head of a counter-narcotics division in Volos. The statement from the police department added that in all 57 people are going to face criminal charges related to drug trafficking; of these, 43 were active members of the ring, while 14 were collaborators.
Thessaloniki police chief Athinagoras Pazarlis revealed that the ring was led by two 34-year-olds and a 29-year-old man, all of Albanian nationality, and distributed at least 400 kg of marijuana, 20 kg of heroin and 1 kg of cocaine from Balkan countries in Greece.
Policemen involved in the ring worked with traffickers to frame others as drug dealers, Interestingly, the traffickers would then be "rewarded" by those they aided, by collecting either 10,000 Euros or drugs. According to a dispatch from the state news agency, some of those benefitting from the scheme were even prisoners, whose "tips" would help them reduce their jail sentences at court hearings.
In total, 35 people appearing before the Thessaloniki prosecutors under heavy security measures were indicted and given a date for their deposition.
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