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Cocaine haul blocked at port of Igoumenitsa

Cocaine haul blocked at port of Igoumenitsa

Greek coast guard officers late Sunday seized more than 25 kilograms of cocaine at the port of Igoumenitsa in northwestern Greece and arrested a man and a woman, both Bulgarian nationals, on drug smuggling charges.

The cocaine had been concealed in the root of a trailer that the pair had been in and which had been due to board a ferry to the Italian port of Bari.

According to sources, Coast Guard officers deemed the behavior of the 57-year-old driver and his 48-year-old wife as suspicious, prompting in inspection which led to the discovery of the drugs.

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