Smugglers are finding different ways day by day to smuggle their goods across the border and make profit. One such incident was also reported on Saturday when an unknown aircraft in the air was used in a tobacco smuggling – Vecernji.hr reports.

According to information from the Vukovar - Srijem County Police Department, on Saturday, at around 5.30 pm, the police observed and monitored the movement of an unknown aircraft in the air over Gradiste during surveillance of the implementation of the ban on leaving the residence.

At the same time, they noticed a passenger car with Vinkovci license plate, which obviously avoided their control. Checking out this suspicious driver, police officers stopped a car and a 45-year-old driver from Vojinci. When inspecting the car, police officers found eight PVC sacks of tobacco, without surveillance stamps of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia, totaling 79.25 kilograms. The 45-year-old was immediately arrested and brought to a criminal investigation, taking into account the implementation of the COVID-19 virus protection measures – Vecernji.hr writes.

The Police added that after the criminal investigation had been completed, it was suspected that the 45-year-old, on March 28th, at about 6 pm, drove the personal car into the industrial zone in Gradiste and placed the eight sacks of tobacco in the trunk of the car. The sacks were thrown out of an unknown aircraft. The driver then pulled away from the industrial area in the direction of Gradiste where he was stopped by police. According to the allegations from the Police, the Airspace Management Unit of the Republic of Croatia registered the unauthorized entry of an unknown aircraft into the airspace of the Republic of Croatia from the direction of Bosnia and Herzegovina.