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From Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)
May 13, 2001
Turkish police seized 170 000 pills of captagon with an esitmated worth of USD 800 000 in a Bulgarian car at the Kapakule border crossing point.
The two passengers in the car are Syrian citizens and were immediately arrested, border police sources said.
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The Central Narcotics Bureau busted a drug ring in Lebanon, that had employed a Bulgarian chemist to produce Captagon pills for export to a country in the Gulf, Lebanese police said on Tuesday.
Tractor trailers waiting to leave Bulgaria have formed a 4-km-long line on the Bulgarian side of the Kapitan Andreevo-Kapakule border crossing point between Bulgaria and Turkey Thursday evening.
The Bulgarian MEP from the EP ALDE group, Metin Kazak, has asked the European Commission to intervene in the issue with Turkey imposing restrictions on Bulgarian freight road carriers.
The restrictive measures against Bulgarian freight road carriers will not only be restored effective June 1, but even upped, as this is the position of the Turkish haulers association UND.
Bulgarian caretaker Transport Minister, Kristian Krastev, is to meet with Turkish counterpart, Binali Yildirim, in Leipzig, Germany, on Wednesday.
The Bulgarian tractor trailer blockade at the Kapitan Andreevo-Kapakule border crossing point between Bulgaria and Turkey has been lifted late Friday evening – around 9:40 pm.
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