Almost 20 kilograms of cocaine, which was found in a high-class vehicle belonging to a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Croatia, was hidden under the back seat, which is opened using an electromagnetic lock, the Police Department of Dubrovnik-Neretva announced.
The police pointed out that the cocaine was confiscated with confirmation, and the BiH citizen was arrested and handed over to the custody supervisor of the Dubrovnik-Neretva Police Department with a criminal complaint.
“On Wednesday, November 22, at 5:30 p.m., with the intention of leaving Croatia in the direction of Bosnia and Herzegovina, near the Gornji Brgat border crossing, a personal vehicle with Czech national markings driven by a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina aged 35 years old approached. the official police drug detection dog reacted at the time of the control, and the driver tried to run away, which was prevented by police officers, drug smuggling was suspected, and a search warrant was requested for the vehicle,” the statement said.
On the basis of the order of the County Court in Dubrovnik, the vehicle was thoroughly searched and in a specially designed area, under the back seat that opens with an electromagnetic lock, 17 packages with a total of 19.3 kilograms of high-purity cocaine were found, which the suspect transported to one of the Balkan countries for further resale, the police pointed out.
The cocaine was found by police officers of the Drug Crime Department of the Criminal Police Service of the Dubrovnik-Neretva Police Department as part of the intensified activities that are carried out in the month of the fight against addiction.
“Dubrovački dnevnik” reports that a man whose initials are Z.D. was brought before the investigative judge of the County Court in Dubrovnik this morning for smuggling almost 20 kilograms of cocaine. A thirty five years old living in Trebinje, working in Dubrovnik.
The spokesman of this court, Pero Miloglav, who is also an investigative judge, told this newspaper that the person was sentenced to a one-month pretrial detention due to the risk of repeating the criminal offense, given the circumstances of the crime and the risk of escape, as he is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He pointed out that this criminal offense carries a prison sentence of one to 12 years.
The newspaper writes that this is the first case that drugs have been seized at the exit from Croatia, because so far it has always been at the entrance to the country, for example at the border of Montenegro, which would mean that it is most likely drugs that traveled from Europe.
