Two Greek men have been arrested in Thessaloniki in separate cases involving the alleged illegal transport of migrants, following checks by the Thessaloniki Aliens Directorate over the past 24 hours.
In the first case, police arrested a 29-year-old Greek man after finding four men from Afghanistan and Iran without the required documents inside the van he was driving along the old Kavala–Thessaloniki national road.
According to the police investigation, the migrants had entered Greece illegally across the Greek-Turkish border. Each had reportedly paid €4,000 to a smuggling network operating on the Turkish side of the Evros River to transport them to Thessaloniki.
In the second case, police found two Iraqi nationals without travel documents inside a car driven by a 38-year-old Greek man on the Kavala–Thessaloniki national road near the Sochos interchange.
The two migrants reportedly paid more than $18,000 to a network operating in Iraq to take them to England, their intended final destination.
Authorities are taking both arrested drivers before the competent public prosecutor for criminal proceedings.
