Bulgarian customs officers find fake perfumes worth over EUR 1 million, heroin worth over BGN 1 million
Svilengrad. Bulgarian customs officers at Svilengrad checkpoint have found fake perfumes worth over EUR 1 million and heroin worth over BGN 1 million in a container with empty jars, announced the National Customs Agency.The fake goods and drug were transported on rails from Turkey to Western Europe. According to its papers the container was transporting 22 pallets with empty jars from a company in Turkey to a company in the Netherlands. However, the ultimate unloading point was said to be a town in Germany. The discrepancy made the customs officers suspicious and they checked the container. Pallets with empty jars were hiding pallets covered with empty cardboard boxes to imitate a similar height. The customs officers found 18 pallets with a total of 30,000 packages of perfume and toilet water imitating 30 world famous trademarks, such as Boss, Chanel, Gucci, Dolce and Gabbana, Givenchy, Armani and Calvin Klein. They are estimated at EUR 1 million. This is the biggest amount of fake perfumes the customs officers have seized in the recent years.They also discovered that the cardboard perfume packages in two of the cardboard boxes contained plastic envelopes with a powder-like substance which tested positive for heroin. The drug weighs 8,5 kg in total and is worth over BGN 1 million.An investigating customs inspector is working on the case under the supervision of Haskovo District Prosecutor’s Office.
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