ZAGREB, Sept 8 (Hina) - A former athlete and official announcer at Zagreb's Maksimir stadium, Lovro Flanjak (aged 47), was sentenced on Friday to eight and a half years in prison for smuggling about 14.6 tonnes of marijuana. At the
end of the trial, which lasted more than two years, the Zagreb County Court pronounced Flanjak guilty of smuggling marijuana, which was discovered in two containers at Zagreb's Jankomir customs station in late June 1998. The drugs, worth more than US$100 million, were hidden in boxes with bed linen from Malaysia. Flanjak claimed during the trial he had not known the drugs were in the containers and that he had agreed the job with bed linen with the person who had introduced himself as Marko Vujicic. Vujicic's actual identity was not established during the trial. Flanjak's attorneys have announced an appeal.(hina) rml
ZAGREB, Sept 8 (Hina) - A former athlete and official announcer at
Zagreb's Maksimir stadium, Lovro Flanjak (aged 47), was sentenced
on Friday to eight and a half years in prison for smuggling about
14.6 tonnes of marijuana.
At the end of the trial, which lasted more than two years, the Zagreb
County Court pronounced Flanjak guilty of smuggling marijuana,
which was discovered in two containers at Zagreb's Jankomir customs
station in late June 1998.
The drugs, worth more than US$100 million, were hidden in boxes with
bed linen from Malaysia.
Flanjak claimed during the trial he had not known the drugs were in
the containers and that he had agreed the job with bed linen with the
person who had introduced himself as Marko Vujicic. Vujicic's
actual identity was not established during the trial.
Flanjak's attorneys have announced an appeal.
(hina) rml