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Cocaine Worth HUF 26 Million Seized In Budapest

• 3 Dec 2019 8:50 AM
• Hungary Around the Clock

Budapest police have seized more than 1.3 kilograms of cocaine worth Ft 26 million in a workshop in Csepel, the city’s 21st District.

Police said on Monday that two dealers had been caught, who brought the drugs from Germany, and that they also arrested the person who commissioned them to import the cocaine. The latter was captured in the Seventh District.

Detectives also found Ft 18 million worth of foreign currency and jewels.

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