High level drugs traffickers have been flooding Europe with tonnes of cocaine branded with a fake logo referencing basketball megastar LeBron James.
Police in Greece have seized five shipments of cocaine worth tens of millions of Euros all stamped with the number 23, which is James' number on the basketball court. According to reports in Greece the cocaine packaging contains the logo while the powder blocks themselves are stamped with the initials NBA, in a fake reference to the National Basketball Association.
Around 300kg of that cocaine was seized when four British men, at least three who are from Merseyside, were arrested in the Greek northern city of Thessaloniki on June 9 when armed police stormed a luxury villa. The drugs were seized alongside a handgun, ammunition, mobile phones and geo-location equipment.
