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Greek man charged with mailing banned steroids
Pravda
2005-12-01
NewsFromRussia.Com
A Greek man was charged on Thursday in the northern city of
Thessaloniki with mailing large quantities of banned anabolic
steroids to recipients in at least 10 foreign countries,
authorities confirm.
The suspect was arrested Wednesday in a Thessaloniki post
office while allegedly sending off packages of steroids to
addresses in the United States, Britain and France, the
Financial Crime Squad, or SDOE, said in a statement.
SDOE said over 35,000 boxes of steroids - used by athletes as
illegal performance-boosters - were confiscated following a
raid on the suspect's home.
The suspect allegedly worked with a Moscow-based Russian
associate, who sent him the drugs together with the
recipients' addresses.
SDOE said the suspect had posted at least 450 packages since
May 2005 to the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, Germany,
Belgium, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia, the
AP reports.
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Police bust mail-order steroid shipment ring
Kathimerini
Friday December 2, 2005
ekathimerini.com
Authorities in Thessaloniki have uncovered a stash of more
than 35,000 boxes of steroids after arresting a man who was
allegedly in the process of mailing to 10 different countries
packages containing anabolic steroids and other illegal
pharmaceuticals.
The Finance Ministry said that its Special Investigation
Service (SIS) had arrested the Greek national, of Georgian
descent, at a post office and that a search of his home
uncovered 35,276 boxes of tablets, capsules and injectable
drugs, many of which are classified as steroids.
Police said that the drugs had been smuggled into Greece by
bus from Russia, which is thought to be where the
international operation is based.
The packages were marked with addresses in Japan, Saudi
Arabia, United States, Britain, France, Belgium, Germany,
Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
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