{"id":21759,"date":"2026-09-17T07:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/greek-drivers-arrested-over-alleged-migrant-smuggling\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:43:40","slug":"greek-drivers-arrested-over-alleged-migrant-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/greek-drivers-arrested-over-alleged-migrant-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Drivers Arrested Over Alleged Migrant Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"


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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.<\/h3>\n

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\u2013Thessaloniki national road.<\/p>\n

According to the police investigation, the migrants had entered Greece illegally across the Greek-Turkish border. Each had reportedly paid \u20ac4,000 to a smuggling network operating on the Turkish side of the Evros River to transport them to Thessaloniki.<\/p>\n

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\u2013Thessaloniki national road near the Sochos interchange.<\/p>\n

The two migrants reportedly paid more than $18,000 to a network operating in Iraq to take them to England, their intended final destination.<\/p>\n

Authorities are taking both arrested drivers before the competent public prosecutor for criminal proceedings.<\/p>\n

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