Ukraine police seized heroin worth about $60 million — over half a tonne of the powder — in raids in the country’s centre and west, officials said Sunday, describing it as the biggest haul they had ever seen.
Chief of the national police Sergiy Knyazev announced on Facebook two raids in Kiev region yielding “600 kilogrammes (1,322 pounds) of heroin worth $50 million.”
About 500 kg were found on Sunday afternoon, and more than 100 kg overnight “in a professionally-equipped cubby hole in a premium-class car” outside Kiev.
“I have never seen so much heroin seized by the Ukrainian police,” Knyazev said.
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Source: Gulf times
