The arrest marks a significant move in Europe's intensified efforts to combat Russian-speaking organised crime groups.
The 51-year-old Georgian suspect, whose name remains undisclosed, was apprehended on Tuesday in central Athens after police received a tip-off about his travel plans to the city. The arrest occurred at a restaurant where the suspect was dining with 13 other men.
A 58-year-old man present at the dinner was also arrested for gun possession, while a third man was detained for lacking a residence permit and refusing an identity check. The remaining individuals were briefly held and subsequently released.
This crackdown comes amid heightened vigilance following a 2013 assassination of a clan leader in Moscow, which ignited a power struggle within the crime network. Europol has identified the "vory v zakone" network as a tightly structured criminal organisation originating from the Soviet Union's underworld.
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