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# Poland seizes about a ton of heroin worth almost $60 million

> Poland has seized around one ton of heroin worth nearly 220 million zlotys ($60 million), authorities said on Monday, in one of the country’s largest drug busts in recent years.

By Reuters · Published 8 June 2026, 15:39 SAST

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Officers found the drugs in containers shipped from the United Arab Emirates that arrived at the Baltic port of Gdynia, police said in a statement.

Police said they received information about the shipment from Britain’s tax authorities.

“I don’t have to tell you what would happen if such a quantity of this terrible drug were to enter the Polish market,” Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski told a news conference.

The drugs were hidden in a shipment of decorative bricks and uncovered using X-ray equipment, police said.

Three Polish citizens have been detained in connection with the case.($1 = 3.6819 zlotys)

(Reporting by Alan Charlish. Editing by Mark Potter)