Drugs Worth USD 800 000 Seized*

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.

*As Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) became 10 years old on Friday, March 11, 2011, we are reprinting selected articles from our archives that we published on the respective day exactly 10 years ago.

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