Saturday, 5 January 2008

seized 47 kilos of heroin in Bulgaria

Police seized 47 kilos of heroin at the Bulgaria - Macedonia border from the car of a Turkish national. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova
Bulgarian customs officers at the Gueshevo border checkpoint with Macedonia seized Saturday 47 kilograms of heroin.
During a check officials found 80 packages of the drug, hidden in a secret compartment in the roof of a car, which was driven by a 50-year-old Turkish national.
The suspect was traveling from Turkey to Albania.
According to preliminary estimates, the seized heroin costs more than EUR 6 M.

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