Accord­ing to custom­s agency, haul is the bigges­t amount of heroin seized at Bulgar­ia's border­s in 2019SOFIA: Bulgarian customs officials confiscated more than 288 kilogrammes (635 pounds) of heroin hidden on a truck from Iran, prosecutors announced Thursday. The haul is the biggest amount of heroin seized at Bulgaria’s borders this year, the customs agency said. The drugs were placed in 144 packages hidden inside the floor and ceiling of a spray painting machine transported inside the truck. In 2018, the customs agency confiscated a total of 994 kilos of heroin at the country’s borders, a rise of 13 per cent from 2017. The amount included the biggest heroin haul in the agency’s whole history of over 712 kilos of heroin found in two Iranian trucks travelling to Austria in October last year.

Source: The Express Tribune April 18, 2019 14:15 UTC