The 4.2 tonnes of marijuana in Gostivar worth over 10m euros

More than 4.3 tonnes of marijuana worth over 10m euros have been seized in the suburb of Gostivar, northern Macedonia.

“Today (15.12.23) by police officers from the Criminal Police Department . .

The above-mentioned amount reportedly was confiscated after the RMV government's decision to lift authorisation for developing cannabis for medical purposes of the legal person declared due to the irregularities outlined during the work.

Whatever, in the past period, police officers from the Department of Criminal and NJPB Gostivar in co-ordination with the Commission for assessing the conditions in terms of space, equipment and personnel for developing cannabis for medical purposes have carried out an extraordinary examination, which, during their work, has been found numerous irregularities, for which many Gostivar's NJPB has introduced criminal rowing at PTHP Gostivar by Article 95c of the Law for Control of Narcotic drugs”, the MPB report is further said.

Following the RMV government's decision, 4341kg of marijuana narcotics has been seized and placed in the Drug Management Agency, KlenM follows.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, together with the Commission from the Ministry of Health, will continue to check in the future on legal persons who have permission to cultivate cannabis for medical purposes to ascertain possible operational irregularities. /Klan Macedonia