"We are in constant contact with the police in Montenegro and Macedonia, and according to the data gathered so far, the Croatian crew and the ship's owner have nothing to do with the cargo, i.e. the seized cocaine," Ministry spokesman Zlatko Mehun told Hina.
The shipment was seized on the Macedonian border on January 4. The Montenegrin police reported on Monday that the Croatian ship "Losinj" had transported it to the Montenegrin port of Bar from Italy at the end of December.
Losinjska Plovidba said on Tuesday that shippers, just like postal services, do not verify cargo contents, but take a cargo declaration as a credible confirmation of contents, and that they guarantee that the cargo is sealed during transport.
According to the Montenegrin police, containers with the drugs valued at over EUR40 million were reloaded onto a truck in Bar on January 4. The truck left Montenegrin territory that same day, heading for Kosovo via the Kula border crossing.
The cargo manifest shows that the goods in the containers were owned by the company Makfut from Belgrade, and that the final destination was Greece.
The containers were loaded in Venezuela on November 14 and went through customs controls in several South American ports, one Spanish and one Italian before reaching Bar on December 29.