Members of the Hellenic Police’s Subdirectorate for Combating Organised Crime traced a gang and found hidden greenhouses holding about 6,600 cannabis plants in Corinthia, in the Peloponnese.[1] The raid was the early-morning phase of a wider operation carried out on Wednesday 10 June 2026 in areas of Attica and Corinthia.[2] Police arrested 11 people over the case, nine of them members of the organisation, including its two leaders, aged 40 and 41.[1]

Searches covered a greenhouse, an open-air site and homes, where officers found and seized the plants, drugs, money, weapon, scales, phones and cars.[1] The seized plants were 6,620 cannabis plants of 70 to 130 centimetres in height, together with 890 grams of unprocessed cannabis.[1] Officers also seized cannabis seeds, €4,080 in cash, a revolver with 10 cartridges, two precision scales, 13 mobile phones and four cars.[1]

The two leaders ran the organisation to traffic drugs and grow cannabis in Corinthia, deciding where the plantation would stand and buying the seeds and farm supplies.[1] According to the police account, a 52-year-old Greek managed the crop and the workers, another 52-year-old lent his land for the plantation and advised on growing, two women aged 47 and 36 handled seeds and contacts, two men aged 37 and 35 tended and guarded the plants, and a 45-year-old ran a second cannabis crop where he lived.[1]

A 44-year-old Greek man was arrested over the revolver and cartridges found in a home, and a 30-year-old foreign woman was arrested because she did not hold the documents needed to stay in the country lawfully.[1] Five of those arrested had earlier come to police attention for similar and other offences, and all were to be taken to the competent prosecutors.[1] Police built the case on intelligence and special investigative measures, with what the force called a particularly important contribution from the Albanian authorities.[2] Those held were to face a case file alleging criminal organisation and, depending on the person, breaches of the laws on narcotics, weapons and the return of third-country nationals.[2]