{"id":43053,"date":"2025-08-11T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/nearly-600-pounds-of-cocaine-found-hidden-in-banana-shipment-in-greece-after-police-get-tip-from-the-u-k\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:48:08","slug":"nearly-600-pounds-of-cocaine-found-hidden-in-banana-shipment-in-greece-after-police-get-tip-from-the-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/nearly-600-pounds-of-cocaine-found-hidden-in-banana-shipment-in-greece-after-police-get-tip-from-the-u-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 600 pounds of cocaine found hidden in banana shipment in Greece after police get tip from the U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Greek police said Sunday they seized nearly 600 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of over $6.5 million. The cocaine was hidden inside a container of bananas imported from Ecuador, they said, marking yet another instance of drugs being found concealed in the fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Police had been informed by the United Kingdom&#8217;s National Crime Agency that the cocaine would be carried by a ship headed to the northern Greek port of Thessaloniki.<\/p>\n<p>Three men were arrested, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers found the cocaine and removed most of the drugs contained in brick-sized packages from the container before it was loaded into a truck. <\/p>\n<p>Police <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hellenicpolice\/status\/1954560025730367678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released a short video<\/a> of the removal operation, showing bricks falling from a container that was opened by officers. Authorities also released images of the purported drugs, showing dozens of bricks labeled with the word &#8220;Diesel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/11\/9859aa8e-1f0e-41d5-aae1-e064d16c2b18\/thumbnail\/620x401g8\/988b8e6654a6789b7b72cd89aaaaf9ac\/cocaine-screenshot-2025-08-11-061032.png#\" alt=\"cocaine-screenshot-2025-08-11-061032.png \" height=\"401\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/11\/9859aa8e-1f0e-41d5-aae1-e064d16c2b18\/thumbnail\/620x401g8\/988b8e6654a6789b7b72cd89aaaaf9ac\/cocaine-screenshot-2025-08-11-061032.png 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Greek police said Sunday they seized nearly 600 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of over $6.5 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Greek Police<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The truck headed for the Athens suburb of Aspropyrgos, more than 300 miles to the south, where the police arrested three men as they opened the container Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The total amount of cocaine seized was 598 pounds, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astynomia.gr\/2025\/08\/10\/10-08-2025-d-a-o-e-exarthrothike-egklimatiki-organosi-diethnikou-charaktira-ta-meli-tis-opoias-diakinousan-megales-posotites-kokainis-meso-eborevmatokivotion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrested men include<\/a> two Greeks, the 40-year-old owner of a haulage company, a 32-year-old and a 47-year-old Bulgarian citizen, police say, adding that the Bulgarian was in touch with a drug gang and organized the picking up and transport of the container. The 32-year-old was in charge of distributing the drug through unnamed gang members.<\/p>\n<p>Police are looking for more people they say belong to a drug distribution gang. The three arrested men will face a prosecutor Monday.<\/p>\n<h2>Bananas frequently used to hide cocaine<\/h2>\n<p>Cocaine has been found hidden in banana shipments across the globe in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Russia said it seized 1,800 pounds of cocaine hidden under a shipment of bananas, calling it its largest bust of drugs from Latin America this year.<\/p>\n<p>In May, employees at a Norwegian fruit distributor discovered a packet of cocaine in a box of bananas, alerting customs officials who found a\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cocaine-found-banana-shipment-norway\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">stash of 147 kilos<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, authorities in the Dominican Republic confiscated\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dominican-republic-cocaine-seizure-record-breaking\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">nearly 9.5 tons of cocaine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0from a banana shipment at the country&#8217;s most important seaport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, customs agents seized more than\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cocaine-3-million-seized-ship-bananas-greece\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">200 pounds of cocaine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0at the port in Greece from a ship carrying the fruit. The month before that, police dogs in Ecuador helped find\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/police-dogs-find-tons-cocaine-hidden-banana-shipment-ecuador\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">more than six tons of cocaine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0hidden in a banana shipment headed to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In March last year, Bulgarian customs officials confiscated about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bulgaria-ecuador-cocaine-seizure-banana-5ba6abb268a2b6e7df8e339bc45e493c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">170 kilograms of cocaine<\/a>\u00a0from a ship transporting bananas from Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>The month before that, British authorities said they found\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/568-million-cocaine-hidden-bananas-record-drug-seizure-uk-southampton\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">more than 12,500 pounds<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of cocaine hidden in a shipment of the fruit, breaking the record for the biggest single seizure of hard drugs in the country.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cocaine-hidden-banana-shipment-greece-police-tip-uk\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek police said Sunday they seized nearly 600 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of over $6.5 million. 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