Driver apparently knew nothing – The Budapest Times

Written by Mirtill Rádonyi

Smugglers tried to smuggle 400,000 tranquillisers and anti-epileptic drugs into Hungary in a lorry.

The NAV financial police made an unusual discovery during an inspection of a lorry with Serbian registration plates near Röszke.

According to the freight documents, the lorry was transporting car parts from Serbia to Germany, but the customs officers actually found more than 19,000 packages of sedatives not approved in Hungary and almost 20,000 antiepileptic drugs in the driver’s cab. Neither the Serbian driver nor his co-driver claimed to have known about the 400,000 tablets. The NAV initiated criminal proceedings with the Szeged police on reasonable suspicion of the crime of drug counterfeiting.