Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic opened a regional border police centre in Priboj, southwestern Serbia, on Sunday, vowing to insist on even tougher fight against smuggling.
“The police achieved good results in 2014 and 2015 in curbing the smuggling of tobacco, coffee and narcotics, but I expect that work to be more intensive this year,” he said.
He stressed that every pack of cigarettes or kilogramme of tobacco that is smuggled into Serbia and sold without excise duties means fewer kilometres of roads and fewer schools, hospitals or other buildings constructed, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
“That is why we are committed to the fight against smuggling and we want that practice to become a thing of the past,” Stefanovic said.
The centre, which has a new building, will cover the entire territory along the borders with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, he said.
Source: Tanjug
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