Croatia Seizes Five Million Euros on Serbian Border
Croatian border police have made their biggest ever seizure of undeclared cash, discovering almost five million euros ($7 million) in a truck during a routine check on the frontier with Serbia, the interior ministry said Thursday.
The 4.75 million euros was found at the Tovarnik border crossing in a truck with Slovenian registration on Tuesday, the ministry said in a statement.
A probe was ongoing to determine the origin and destination of the money, it said.
Experts said it could have come from drug smuggling.
Croatia joined the European Union on July 1 and has stepped up controls at its borders.
The former Yugoslav republic lies on the so-called Balkans route used by criminals to smuggle drugs, people and weapons into Western Europe.
Source: Agence France Presse
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