Narcotic

The narcotic substance was found in a cargo truck with terracotta tiles delivered to a warehouse in Bulgaria from Iran, according to Standart newspaper, cited by BNR.

The tiles with a total weight of 23 tons travelled from Bulgaria to Holland.

The truck with the terracotta was stopped for a check by the team of the Customs in Lom on the Dunav.

Two Turkish citizens - 36 and 26 years old - were arrested during a special raid conducted by DG National Police on 10 May in Sofia. According to initial information, they were in possession of high-risk narcotic substances with intent to distribute. This was announced by the Ministry of the Interior.

An Albanian national, 32, was arrested for possession of drugs in the area of Exacrhia in Athens, Saturday afternoon. Police officers of the Attica narcotics unit were led to the suspect after information they received within the framework of ongoing operations against drug trafficking.

Police from Attica's narcotics unit said Wednesday they had unraveled two rings that worked together to distribute large quantities of drugs, especially refined cannabis and cocaine, to and from countries in Western and Northern Europe, using international transport trucks.

Police anti-narcotics units in Patra, western Greece, have unraveled a network that distributed drugs within the city's prison and arrested a 48-year-old senior correctional officer.

They also charged nine inmates - seven Albanians and two Greeks.

Roadside tests have shown the presence of narcotic drugs in the bodies of 63% of car drivers tested by Sofia Traffic Police in 2016, the Ministry of the Interior announced on Thursday.Twenty-six out of 41 car drivers stopped for testing in the area of Sofia have tested positive for the presence of narcotic or intoxicating substances in their systems, the ministry said in a statement.Other regio

Greek narcotics forces have managed to disband 3 notorious drug rings operating in the cities of Larissa and Volos, central Greece. The Greek narcotics unit in conjunction with the Crime Prevention and Repression group arrested two couples in Larissa last week who had stashed 418 grams of heroine in their car.

"One of the biggest drug dealers in Serbia and an international smuggler of narcotics" has been arrested this morning, the Belgrade media are reporting.

According to dailies Vecernje Novosti and Blic, the suspect has been named as K.R., and was apprehended on Monday "in possession of several kilograms of heroin and cocaine."

The Greek Narcotics Department dismantled a criminal organisation allegedly involved in drug trafficking and pandering on the island of Mykonos. Police arrested two 33 year-old, and one 34 year-old Greek males in an operation carried out in the early hours of Saturday. One of the suspects was a former coast guard and the other had been arrested for a bank robbery in 2011.

446 kilos of drugs incinerated at power plant

BELGRADE -- The Interior Ministry has incinerated about 446 kilograms of illegal narcotics and other psychoactive substances at the Nikola Tesla power plant in Obrenovac.

In a statement, the MUP said that the value of the drugs was around a billion Serbian dinars (RSD) - about EUR 8.3 million.