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Serbian police have raided the Sofia-Nis international train and arrested the Bulgarian conductor who was trying to smuggle 5,1 kg of heroin into the country, the Director of Nis police confirmed.
The 27-year-old Bulgarian train conductor - Vladimir V., 27 years. He delivered the heroin to two Serbian men, who were also arrested, at Nis train station.
The Serbian police first seized the drugs and arrested the two Serbians and then stopped and boarded the Sofia-Nis train to handcuff the Bulgarian conductor.
The three are accused of the illegal production and sale of drugs and will now remain in jail for a month before trial.
According to Nis police in 2009 has been a record year for the seizure of drugs - 29 kilograms of heroin and 105 kilograms of various other drugs.
A 44-year-old Bulgarian national has been sentenced to ten years of imprisonment in Austria for attempting to smuggle heroin through the country.
Heroin trafficking from Asia to Europe happens through the "Balkan Route", not via Russia, according to Viktor Ivanov, Director of the Russian Federal Service for Control of Narcotics.
A Bulgarian man has been arrested together 24 other persons in Croatia in two special police operations of the Croatian and Serbian police authorities.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has promised to do all he could in order to get Serbia admitted to the EU after talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic during joint military drills.
Bulgarian customs officers have captured an unorthodox heroin shipment – the drugs were hidden in condoms and a cartoon of juice.
Two Bulgarian nationals have been arrested in Hungary for the smuggling of heroin valued at EUR 3,5 M.
A young man from Chirpan has died after spending months in a coma following a violent assault that reportedly began over a dispute involving cigarettes
A 53-year-old man with a criminal record has been detained in Bulgaria during a targeted police operation against vote buying, carried out in the village of Brestnitsa in the Lovech region
A criminal network linked to Bulgaria has been accused of defrauding dozens of elderly people in northern Greece through an elaborate telephone scam that resulted in losses exceeding 600,000 euros, according to Kathimerini.
A premeditated murder investigation is underway after a violent incident in the village of Kokalyane near Sofia, where a man is accused of fatally stabbing another person inside a garage that had been adapted for living
Italian authorities have launched an investigation into a large-scale scheme involving the illegal export of hazardous waste to Eastern Europe, with five Bulgarian nationals among those under scrutiny
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