The 850 kg of heroin, found at Meghri checkpoint last year, has been destroyed

Last year, on January 17, more than 850 kg of heroin was found in specially equipped hiding places of a truck at the Meghri Customs. 

For more than a year they were kept in special iron shelves, in the locked territory of the administrative building of the National Security Service. The drugs were withdrawn from the locked area and burnt on June 5. The heroin was discovered by the Preclearance Control Department of the Ministry of Finance.