A strange case involving Greek citizens took the last day drug enforcement agencies Sydney, Australia. The reason for the detention of two young people aged 27 and 19, who came from the city of Hellas V Australia To obtain cargo 120 kg of cocaine container in the port of Botany. The case was made public on Sunday by the NSW Police, with Investigator Matthew Kennedy telling reporters that “we are looking into how Greeks are connected to crime networks in Sydney.” The Greek police requested information about the identity of the two arrested.

As it became known, two young people left Athens for Sydney just a day before the arrest. Last Thursday evening, they entered the protected area in the trading port “Port Botany” and, with special tools, tried to remove some amount of cocaine from the walls of the container. However, at 23:00 they were noticed by a security guard who called the police. A chase ensued, during which the police arrested a 27-year-old boy, and his 19-year-old accomplice managed to temporarily escape. During the ensuing investigation, a total of 120 kilograms of cocaine in 1-kilo packs were found on the sides of the container. The commercial value of seized drugs in Australia, where cocaine is sold at a particularly high price, is estimated at 60 million euros.

On Friday, just hours after the 27-year-old was arrested, police searched three homes in suburban Sydney and found crowbars, burglary tools, gloves and bags. During one of the investigations, they identified a 19-year-old Greek who temporarily managed to escape. They are due to appear before local judiciaries on June 13 and 20, respectively.

Australian authorities have arrested two Greeks – a 27-year-old and a 19-year-old – while their links to local criminal networks are being investigated.

During a press conference, Matthew Kennedy of the narcotics and gun control team said that the two men who were arrested did not speak English and had only been in the country for a short time prior to their arrest. “Of course, it was not the smartest move on the part of the drug traffickers to send two Greek citizens to the port without knowing their whereabouts, of course,” Mr. Kennedy added. He said that the container of cocaine had arrived in Australia from Italy.

They ask for clarification

After the case was made public, officers from the Attica Police Narcotics Sub-Directorate sent a request to the Sydney Police for clarification of the case, as well as information on the identity of the two young men who are being prosecuted for the crime. happening.

However, this is not the first time Greeks have been accused of smuggling cocaine into Australia. In November 2018, Ecuadorian authorities, in consultation with the Antinarcotics sub-directory of Attica, seized 382 kg of cocaine on a sailboat called the Sunset. The operation took place at the pier in the tourist resort of Salinas, shortly before the departure of the boat bound for Australia. Two Greeks and an Albanian citizen were arrested in Athens as the financiers of the project.