DRUG AND CAR SMUGGLING CHAIN BROKEN BY POLICE

( Editorial: --> 9730 ) MOSTAR, June 8 (Hina) - A crime chain smuggling heroine and stolen luxury cars has been smashed by police from the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina, in cooperation with Croatian police and Interpol. Herzegovina-Neretva Canton police in Mostar on Monday said an organised group of smugglers had transported narcotics from the Bosnian Serb entity through the southern part of the Croat-Muslim Federation of BH towards Croatia, while the cars had been smuggled from Italy. The cars were sold or exchanged for drugs in the southern part of the Federation, but in Italy they were reported as stolen for insurance purposes. The authorised prosecutor in Mostar has laid charges against three Croatian citizens who are suspected of engaging in the unauthorised production and sale of illegal drugs. The same source said a joint criminal investigation was continuing. (Hina) jn mbr /lml 081756 MET jun 98