A record amount of contraband cigarettes - 3500 master-boxes of Chinese brand "Djin Ling produced in Moldova, was captured by Bulgarian customs officers on board a ship near the Bulgarian coast. It is a common operation Agentţiei Bulgarian customs, the OLAF European Anti-Fraud Service and other customs services in Europe. Aa It started after a signal received from Bulgaria. Were seized 35 million cigarettes - three times more compared to the total quantity of contraband cigarettes seized in Bulgaria in 2008. "Losses unpaid excise budget could only exceed 12 million euros, if cigarettes hit the market negra," said Finance Minister Simeon Diankov. According to official documents carrying ship cigarettes in the Republic of Moldova in Egypt. After fleeing the Bulgarian territorial waters, she was also stopped by a warship excortata to Bulgarian port of Varna. Chinese cigarettes distribution license "Djin Ling" in Europe is owned by a Spanish company, who said he has nothing to do with the seized cigarettes. Experts say that this brand of cigarettes, which reminds of "Camel" in the U.S. leads Europe's top cigarette smuggling. In late May, sofiot newspaper "Gazette" has informed readers that the customs agency is pursuing a significant amount of Chinese cigarettes "Djin Ling. Since then the ship that has changed names three times in international waters.
A total of 55 bodies were extracted from a mass grave in Guerrero State, this being the most important find of its kind in Mexico, announced Monday that the Public Ministry of State located in the south and ravaged by war between drug cartels . Common grave was discovered in a vent of a mine 100 feet deep, one week ago, the tourist village of Taxco. "On Saturday evening, the total number of corpses recovered from the pit was 55," said the press conference Albertico Guinto Sierra, spokesman for the Prosecutor of Guerrero. Search operations were "over," he added. Only four bodies have been identified with certainty, among them is the director of a prison. Authorities believe that the pit was used by the mercenaries of cartels to get rid of their victims. Identifying the other 51 victims could take three to four weeks, according to authorities. The corpses were deposited in this pit in the last six months, investigators estimated. The police continued their search in wells near the mine in Taxco, where neighbors reported a fetid smell, said the prosecutor. About 50 families were presented to authorities in Guerrero to request information about the bodies extracted from this pit, because they fear that some of their relatives missing in recent months could figure among them, said Albertico Guinto. Guerrero State, situated on the Pacific Ocean, is used as a transit zone for cocaine and heroin imported from South America, which are then exported to the United States, the first global consumer of narcotics. Drug cartel war has killed around 23,000 people in Mexico from Felipe Calderon the presidency, despite the mobilization of over 50,000 troops across the country.
Filat today chaired a working meeting on the situation of the pharmaceutical market. At the hearing, the Health Minister Vladimir Hotineanu made a presentation on the pharmaceutical market of Moldova.
The information presented is a growing volume of imports of drugs in Moldova. Thus, in 2005 were imported medicines worth U.S. $ 7 million in 2009 this figure amounted to U.S. $ 160 million. National production of drugs is conducted by 22 pharmaceutical companies account for 10 percent of the domestic pharmaceutical market. Vladimir Hotineanu also said that Moldova imports drugs from 50 countries. Currently operating 72 licensed importers of medicines. Health Minister pointed out that the checks carried out, were found numerous violations of the storage of medicines. Have also been detected fraudulent schemes in the result that the price of drugs in Moldova is several times higher than in neighboring states. Currently we are working on drafting a regulation on the formation and control of drug prices. The Regulation will be provided that at the beginning of each year, manufacturers will make public in domestic prices for drugs, but not foreign. This will exclude situations where the drug price will be amended during the year. At the hearing, noted that Moldova and Ukraine are the only countries in the region who do not have a registration procedure for drug prices, according to a press release from the Executive. The premier said that implementing a new pricing mechanism to ensure people's access to medicines to pharmaceutical quality, secure, affordable.
Filat today chaired a working meeting on the situation of the pharmaceutical market. At the hearing, the Health Minister Vladimir Hotineanu made a presentation on the pharmaceutical market of Moldova. 