2,189 cannabis plants uprooted in Corinthia; one man arrested
Greek police uprooted 2,189 cannabis plants in a wooded area of Sikyonia municipality on 2 September 2026 and arrested a 27-year-old man. Police estimated potential proceeds at €3.3 million and said officers also seized 12.876 kg of cannabis.
The Corinthia Crime Investigation Department carried out an operation in a wooded area of Sikyonia municipality in the early hours of 2 September 2026, with support from regional crime-prevention officers and the EKAM special anti-terrorism unit.[1][2]Police said officers found 2,189 cannabis plants, up to 2.1 metres tall, in a cleared plot hidden among trees, then uprooted and seized them with irrigation and cultivation equipment.[1][2]
Police arrested a 27-year-old foreign national whom they said they found watering and weeding the plants; the case file covered organised crime, narcotics and immigration-law offences, including unidentified associates.[1][2]Police said they seized 12 kilograms and 876 grams of cannabis from the site and its support spaces, along with drying equipment, a tank, a greenhouse, a vehicle and a phone.[1]Authorities estimated expected proceeds at about €3.3 million, which eKathimerini described as the farm’s estimated street value.[1][2]Police said they were continuing the investigation to identify the unnamed associates.[1]Neither report gives a later court outcome.[1][2]
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On 15 October 2026 police arrested a 34-year-old foreign man in Larisa and uprooted 812 cannabis plants in a hard-to-reach wooded area. They also seized 36.69 kg of raw cannabis and 40,950 euros. A second identified man was not reported arrested.
Officers from Corinth's drug squad found a cannabis plot in a steep forest area of Erymanthos municipality in Achaea, uprooted 330 plants and seized about 50 kg of cannabis left to dry. No arrests were made; police are looking for the growers.
Officers from the Kalamata drug squad, backed by the EKAM anti-terrorist unit, found a 4,670-plant cannabis plantation on about 25 stremmata of Mount Kallidromio in Fthiotida on 10 July 2026 and arrested three people asleep in tents on the plot. Police put the expected profit from the plants at over 9 million euros.
Arrested 3Plants destroyed 4,670Area 4 haCannabis 412 g
Greek police arrested one worker and said two others escaped after discovering a 1,383-plant cannabis plantation in a remote forest area above Kammena Vourla on 3 June 2026. The five terraces covered about 2,500 square metres and were supplied by a four-kilometre hose network and two water reservoirs.
