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A gold sealing ring from the Mycenaean times, depicting a pair of sphinxes, was returned to Greece by the Nobel Foundation, in a ceremony held on Thursday, May 19 in Stockholm, the Culture Ministry in Athens announced. The ring was found in 1927, during the excavations of the Italian Archaeological …

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A prosecutor in Thessaloniki has ordered a preliminary investigation into allegations that an illegal adoption ring has been operating in Albania and Greece. The allegations arose after the arrest of a 59-year-old man for the double murder of two sisters in Tirana on New Year’s Eve. The man had coerced …

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The Drugs Squad of the Greek Police dismantled a major cocaine trafficking ring and seized 105 kilogram of the illegal drug. In cooperation with the US DEA and following a tip off police raided an apartment in Agios Dimitrios-Brahami suburb of south Athens on Thursday. Police confiscated also 828,000 euros …

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Two police officers are among eleven people arrested on suspicion of a drug dealing ring supplying with cocaine and cannabis several cities across Greece. Next to the police officers arrested were also six more Greeks and three Albanian nationals. The ring leader is believed to be also Albanian and is …

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Greek Police announced on Sunday the dismantling of an extensive sex-trafficking ring that used sham civil partnership agreements to get legal residence permits for women from Eastern Europe. They would be smuggled into Greece to work as prostitutes and hostesses. According to amna.gr, following an orchestrated police operation in Athens, …

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Over 15 individuals have been arrested, among them doctors, nurses and pharmacists, on accusations of smuggling expensive drugs, police sources said on Thursday. A major police operation is in progress and more arrests are expected, the sources said. According to initial information, the ring was smuggling extremely expensive anti-cancer drugs …

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A police operation set up with support from Europol has resulted in the disbandment of an extensive network that supplied more than 1 million euros’ worth of forged passports and other travel documents to migrant smuggling rings, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) said on Friday. The first phase of the operation …

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