Bulgarian police seize two tonnes of cannabis

19/08/2008

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Police announced on Monday (August 18th) that they found more than two tonnes of cannabis around the southwest town of Blagoevgrad, near the border with Greece. The seizure occurred during a wide-scale police operation in a number of villages in the vicinity of Blagoevgrad, notorious for illegal cultivation of the drug. Authorities say the cannabis turned up on two plots of land belonging to one owner. (AFP, Focus, Nafthemporiki 18/08/08)