Georgia says seized heroin belongs to Taliban
Georgia's interior minister said on Friday that $400 million of heroin seized earlier this month, in the country's biggest ever drugs haul, belonged to the Taliban and was headed for Europe. Ex-Soviet Georgia is on a drug trafficking route between Asia and Europe, often originating in Afghanistan and moving westward via Iran and the South Caucasus to Russia, Turkey or Western Europe, according to a recent U.S. State Department report. Georgian police arrested two Georgian citizens after finding 2.79 tonnes of liquid heroin in a truck that ...
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