![]() ![]() The truck was supposed to move most of the heroin to a port in northwest Greece, then across the Adriatic by ferry to Italy. To transport the shipment, they had purchased a forklift and several hundred canvas bags stamped “Pakistan White Sugar.” In early May, an associate from Belgium had arrived in a cargo truck outfitted with secret compartments. They had leased a warehouse and an industrial chicken coop in the olive groves near Athens International Airport here, the Noor One’s heroin would be diluted with more than five tons of marble dust from a quarry on nearby Mount Pentelikon. They had negotiated to pay more than $20 million for the Plaza Resort on the Attic Riviera, planning to use the tourist destination as a money-laundering site for proceeds from its sale. The Kurds had spent years preparing for the heroin’s arrival. The next afternoon, four Kurdish men in a black Mercedes SUV pulled up in front of the ship, hauled the sacks of heroin out of the Noor One’s ballasts, and began transporting them toward Athens. Early on the morning of June 6, it nosed into Elefsina, a grimy port just west of Athens. He carried a handgun and ordered the tanker’s crew to keep sailing.īy late May, the tanker, which was called the Noor One, had passed through the Suez Canal. After they finished, two of the men sailed back to the coast. Three men climbed aboard the tanker and spent the night packing hundreds of small sacks of heroin, weighing at least two metric tons in total, into its ballast boxes. On April 28, 2014, a fishing trawler intercepted an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, a day after the tanker had left Dubai for Greece.
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