Police said the suspects were part of a network that had promised to bring the refugees to northern Europe, for which each Syrian was to pay 1.200 euros upon arrival. Syrian refugees were trapped in Greece due to closed borders.
 
A police statement Tuesday said that the two Greeks were arrested in the mountainous Kastoria region, after dropping off 14 Syrians near the border. They had allegedly driven the group there in two cars from the northern city of Thessaloniki. This has been the fifth such incident since mid-July on the Albanian border that police forces know of.
 
Nearly 60.000 refugees and migrants have been stranded in Greece in challenging conditions for most of them, waiting for the European Union to take action.