{"id":2612,"date":"2025-01-26T03:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T03:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/athens-drug-ring-dismantled\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T03:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T03:43:40","slug":"athens-drug-ring-dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/athens-drug-ring-dismantled\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens Drug Ring Dismantled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"G\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Greek authorities have broken up a drug distribution ring in Athens that allegedly exploited migrants&#8217; healthcare IDs to illegally obtain and distribute psychiatric medications and other prescription drugs.<\/h2>\n<p>Six people, including two pharmacists, a doctor, an accountant, and two associates, were arrested. Authorities are also seeking ten more suspects, including doctors and pharmacists, for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal network is accused of using the social security numbers of unsuspecting foreign nationals to fraudulently obtain over a thousand prescriptions. These prescriptions were then used to supply drugs, including psychiatric medications, to drug users through a network of eight Athens pharmacies allegedly linked to the operation.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\narrests, Athens, criminal network, doctors, drug trafficking, Greece, Greek news, healthcare fraud, migrant exploitation, pharmacists, prescription drugs, psychiatric medications<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2025\/01\/26\/athens-drug-ring-dismantled\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek authorities have broken up a drug distribution ring in Athens that allegedly exploited migrants&#8217; healthcare IDs to illegally obtain and distribute psychiatric medications and other prescription drugs. Six people, including two pharmacists, a doctor, an accountant, and two associates, were arrested. Authorities are also seeking ten more suspects, including doctors and pharmacists, for questioning. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Athens Drug Ring Dismantled\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/athens-drug-ring-dismantled\/#more-2612\" aria-label=\"Read more about Athens Drug Ring Dismantled\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/police.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}