{"id":4395,"date":"2026-05-07T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:05:00","slug":"thessaloniki-digital-drug-trade-uncovered-by-the-elas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4395","title":{"rendered":"Thessaloniki: digital drug trade uncovered by the ELAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For trafficking drugs via online social networking applications, two young men, 21 and 19 years old, were arrested in the centre of Thessaloniki.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police investigation, <b>the two arrested men were communicating with potential buyers via online applications<\/b>, providing the possibility of electronic payment in an anonymous way, such as <b>cryptocurrency<\/b>, while giving instructions on where to deposit the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, they provided those interested with the ability to scan specific<b> QR code<\/b> signs, which were stuck in various parts of the city and led directly to an online communication platform channel with specific managers &#8211; traffickers for drug orders, according to a statement by the police.<\/p>\n<p>In a coordinated operation carried out yesterday afternoon, the two young men were identified and <b>arrested, while in the possession of the 21-year-old accused were found and seized seven packages with 107 grams of raw cannabis, 227 empty packages, two electronic scales, 48 advertising stickers with QR code, 250 euros and three full face hoods.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A case was filed against them for violation of the law on addictive substances and they are being taken to the prosecutor of the competent <a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/eisaggeleas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prosecutor of the district court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two young men, 21 and 19 years old, were arrested for drug trafficking through online social networking applications in the centre of Thessaloniki.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}