Czech customs officers at the weekend uncovered a record 182 kg shipment of
heroin, worth almost 750 million crowns, being transported by truck. Jiří
Barták, spokesman of the Customs Directorate, revealed the news on Monday,
saying the shipment was the largest ever seized on Czech soil. Preliminary
tests, he said, suggested the purity of the drug was 60 percent, while on
the street the percentage would be far lower, around 15. The target
destination, he suggested, was not the Czech Republic.