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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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