PRAGUE, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Czech customs officers in Moravia have seized about 110 kilograms of a medicine containing pseudoephedrine, said police spokeswoman Pavla Zdobnicka on Wednesday.
In a consignment from Bulgaria, the customs officers found 26,000 packagings with a total of 364,000 pills containing about 44 kilograms of pseudoephedrine, which could be used to produce 29 kilograms of pervitin worth more than 20 million crowns (877,000 U.S. dollars).
Near the Vrbice village close to the Slovak border, customs officers chose a van with the Bulgarian number plate for a random check. Upon request, the driver produced documents showing that the consignment was heading from Bulgaria to the Czech Republic and Poland.
According to Zdobnicka, the customs officers had a suspicion that the medicines may be misused for drug production. Experts from the National Institute for Drug Control have already confirmed that the given medicine is not officially registered for sale in Czech and that the amount of pseudoephedrine in these pills exceeds many times the amount that is permitted in Czech.
Pseudoephedrine is a substance that is often illegally used as precursor in the production of the hard drug pervitin (methamphetamine).
(1 U.S. dollars=22.8 crowns)
