"Seized heroin part of series of operations"

Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says the seizure of 120 kilograms of high-purity heroin, worth about EUR 10 million, is part of a series of operations.

Izvor: Tanjug

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Interior Minister Ivica Dacic says the seizure of 120 kilograms of high-purity heroin, worth about EUR 10 million, is part of a series of operations. Serbian police (MUP) is organizing those with the aim of breaking up drug trafficking networks, he told reporters late on Friday. "Seized heroin part of series of operations" At a press conference where the confiscated drug and a video recording of the operation was presented, Dacic said that the police will carry on with the action, and announced arrests of several other persons. He said that Zoran Petkovic from the village of Jabuka, near Belgrade, and Borislav Plavsic from the town of Sombor were arrested for reasonable suspicion that they have committed a criminal act of association for marketing of narcotics, and added that they already have criminal records. Petkovic and Plavsic were brought before the investigating judge. Dacic pointed out that the seizure was the largest one in the territory of Belgrade in the past few decades. He said that the drug was supposed to reach consumers in Western Europe, recalling that Serbia is part of the so-called Balkan Route, and according to U.S. intelligence services, the transit route for about three quarters of the entire drug produced for the European market. At the conference, the Interior Ministry said that on October 20, the police searched a Mercedes-Benz truck with Slovenian registration plates, which was carrying pallets of lemons from Istanbul to the Czech Republic, and that the drug was discovered in a total of 383 packages found in the pallets. The arrests of Petkovic and Plavsic came after several months of operational work of the Belgrade police, carried out in cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, Interpol's National Central Bureau in Belgrade, the Czech Republic police, the police administration and Gendarmerie in the city of Novi Sad and the Customs Administration. The confiscated drugs are seen at the news conference (Beta)

"Seized heroin part of series of operations"

At a press conference where the confiscated drug and a video recording of the operation was presented, Dačić said that the police will carry on with the action, and announced arrests of several other persons.

He said that Zoran Petković from the village of Jabuka, near Belgrade, and Borislav Plavšić from the town of Sombor were arrested for reasonable suspicion that they have committed a criminal act of association for marketing of narcotics, and added that they already have criminal records.

Petković and Plavšić were brought before the investigating judge.

Dačić pointed out that the seizure was the largest one in the territory of Belgrade in the past few decades.

He said that the drug was supposed to reach consumers in Western Europe, recalling that Serbia is part of the so-called Balkan Route, and according to U.S. intelligence services, the transit route for about three quarters of the entire drug produced for the European market.

At the conference, the Interior Ministry said that on October 20, the police searched a Mercedes-Benz truck with Slovenian registration plates, which was carrying pallets of lemons from Istanbul to the Czech Republic, and that the drug was discovered in a total of 383 packages found in the pallets.

The arrests of Petković and Plavšić came after several months of operational work of the Belgrade police, carried out in cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, Interpol's National Central Bureau in Belgrade, the Czech Republic police, the police administration and Gendarmerie in the city of Novi Sad and the Customs Administration.

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