Sofia Municipality denies it owns property where fentanyl lab operated

The Sofia Municipality has denied widespread information that the property, where an illegal fentanyl production laboratory was discovered yesterday, was owned by the Sofia Municipality. "As it can be seen from the cadastral registers, the owner of the property is the National Center for Agrarian Science (the Agricultural Academy)" the municipality noted. The Agricultural Academy confirmed that the property belongs to the institution. It was leased in June 2024 for a five-year period following a standard public tender procedure. The Academy said it would provide the necessary assistance to the competent authorities conducting the investigation, BNR's Veselina Milanova reported.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Interior announced that the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime discovered a high-tech fentanyl laboratory in an agricultural hall in the Sofia district of "Fakulteta", which is believed to have produced the entire amount of the risky narcotic substance distributed in the country.

Editor: Miglena Ivanova