The leader of the gang, Serbian citizen Budimir Kujović, considered a major drug trafficker in the Balkans. He was said to have been involved in several drug laboratories and trafficking rings arrested in Bulgaria aged 39, was detained on December 30 in Plovdiv. He resisted arrest and a policeman was injured in the fight.
custom officers at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint at the Bulgarian-Turkish border, found 59.35kg of high quality heroin in the floor of a vehicle stopped for a check, an Interior Ministry media statement said.During an operation on December 29 and 30 2007, police in Bulgaria arrested a drug trafficking ring from Turkey through Bulgaria to former Yugoslavia and Western Europe.Stara Zagora deputy regional prosecutor Dicho Atanasov said the gang had been neutralised and its members were detained. The group included three Bulgarians, aged between 41 and 53. One of the Bulgarians was a former custom officer, who provided unimpeded border crossing of the deliveries.Police seized various identity documents from the arrested.
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