Opioids

A businessman who tried to hire the Noor One tanker, which was seized in June after more than a ton of heroin was found on board, is due to appear before investigating magistrate Maria Skarpou on Tuesday, Kathimerini has learned.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record high in 2014, a United Nations report revealed Wednesday, highlighting the failure of the multi-billion-dollar US-led campaign to crack down on the lucrative crop.
      

WASHINGTON - The US State Department has said in it latest report on the international strategy against narcotics that Serbia is not among the large producers or consumers of narcotics, but a transit country in narcotics trafficking.