A Dodecanese appeals court sentenced a man to eight years in prison and a 10,000-euro fine on 8 October 2026 over 853 grams of unprocessed cannabis in a parcel he was collecting from a courier company in Rhodes in September 2021.[1]

The single-member Court of Appeal for criminal offences of the Dodecanese found him guilty of drug trafficking in the forms of purchase and possession by a non-addict.[1] His appeal has a suspensive effect, so he remained free after the verdict, under a condition banning him from leaving the country.[1]

The case began on 4 September 2021, when narcotics officers at a courier company, working a parcel flagged by detection dog Schwartz, arrested him at about 9:30 as he collected the package.[1] The parcel listed the same man as both sender and recipient; he told the court he had bought the cannabis in Attica for his own use and mailed it to himself.[1] A search of his home found nothing, and he was released two days later with conditions.[1] The trial came more than five years after the arrest.[1]