They were caught with 320 kg of cocaine in Piraeus, the names of the Albanian traffickers are revealed

The identities of the Albanians arrested during the operation of the Greek police after the seizure of 320 kg of cocaine in Pira, destined for Albania, have been clarified. They are Jasona Merkuri, 54 years old, Marsel Stafaj, 36 years old and the Greek Ioannis Biglakis, 64 years old.

The Albanian Jasona Merkuri has been wanted by the Greek police since March 2017 as the financier and organizer of a Captagon synthetic drug laboratory, where during the police operation 634 thousand 246 tablets were seized and several people were arrested, including the brother-in-law of his.

Merkuri also uses the identities Andrea Merkuri and Azdren Muharremi. It turns out that he used a Serbian passport before. Merkuri is a businessman who owns a clothing store in Albania and a tourist bus in Greece. In 2008, his brother-in-law was arrested by the Turkish police with his vehicle, in an attempt to traffic 22 kg of heroin from Turkey to Greece. The brother-in-law was subsequently arrested during the 2017 operation.

Greek citizen Ioannis Biglakis was arrested in 2012 in Costa Rica for transporting weapons. He was extradited to the US when he was wanted for collaboration with Colombia's FARK criminal organization. He would trade guns for cocaine.

In relation to the amount of 320 kg of cocaine seized in Piraeus, it is learned that the arrested had pulled the container with drugs hidden in shrimps and were caught by the Greek police in the area of ??Aspropirgo.