BELGRADE, March 11 (Hina) - Serbia's secret police used to keep some 650 kilograms of narcotics in safe deposit boxes of a bank in Belgrade which the new authorities in the Serbian Interior Ministry officially incinerated on
Friday.
BELGRADE, March 11 (Hina) - Serbia's secret police used to keep some
650 kilograms of narcotics in safe deposit boxes of a bank in
Belgrade which the new authorities in the Serbian Interior Ministry
officially incinerated on Friday.#L#
The incumbent authorities discovered 624 kilograms of heroin, 610
grams of cocaine, 19 kilograms of hashish and a certain amount of
marijuana and other drugs, the value of which is assessed to 60
million German marks.
The ministry was quoted by the Belgrade press that the confiscated
drugs had for long time been kept in the rented safes of the
"Komercijalna Bank", and police officers announced criminal
procedures against former officials of the secret police.
A few former officials, along the with their ex-head, Rade
Markovic, are already in custody as they are under suspicion of
committing other criminal acts as well.
The seized narcotics were burnt in the thermoelectric plant in the
town of Obrenovac, outside Belgrade, in the presence of police
commissioners.
The bank director asserted that the then secret police started to
use safe deposit boxes in the spring of 1999 during NATO air strikes
against Yugoslavia.
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