Stefanovic: Record drug seizure, police continue fight

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Friday, referring to the seizure of over 80kg of heroin at the Batrovci border crossing, that he expects the police to keep up the good work and raise the drug seizure rates in Serbia.

“What is our task and what I insist on, besides the work that the border police are doing - having similar seizures in the streets of Belgrade and other parts of Serbia, as there is evidently a lot of narcotics in the entire country,” Stefanovic told Tanjug.

An office for the fight against drugs was set up on Thursday, upon the proposal of the interior ministry, ministries of health and justice.

The office will help coordinate anti-drug efforts, as the narcotics are a serious problem in Serbia, he said.
Speaking about today's operation, the minister described it as very successful, adding that it shows what he expected of the border police - results.
“This was the seizure of 80kg of heroin, and we can say that this is a record seizure in the last several years, and that, based on its operational data, the police did a good job,” Stefanovic said.

The border police at the Batrovci crossing, western Serbia, found over 80 kg of heroin in a passenger vehicle with Turkey's license plates, driven by a Bulgarian national, on Friday morning.

The fifty-seven-year-old Bulgarian national B.I.A. has been placed in a 48 hour-detention on suspicion that he committed a crime of illicit drug production and sale.

Photo Tanjug/Z. Zestic (archive)