Bulgarian law enforcement officers have seized two batches of heroin with a total weight of 46.361 kg destined for the Netherlands, officials said on Monday.

The first batch of 33.501 kg split into 65 packets, was found last Sunday at Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint near the country's southeastern border with Turkey in a Belgium-registered car driven by a Turkish national living in Belgium, the National Customs Agency and the State Agency for National Security said in a joint statement.

As a result of the investigation, authorities arrested on Thursday in the nearby town of Haskovo the head of the illegal trafficking ring - a Turkish citizen, permanent resident in Belgium, and seized another 12.860 kg heroin.

Since the beginning of the year, Bulgaria has seized more than 500 kg of heroin, the highest recorded amount for the same period since 2009. Endi

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