Skopje, 7 February 2026 (MIA) - The Interior Ministry said Saturday it is conducting a large-scale operation as part of which it has seized a significant amount of marijuana. Around nine tons of marijuana and over 1300 bottles of cannabis oil have been discovered and confiscated from a legal entity in Skopje. Over 31 tons of marijuana and biomass have also been seized from legal entities in the eastern part of the country.

“In coordination with the Customs Administration and the competent Commission for oversight of this type of activity from the Ministry of Health, inspections were carried out in several legal entities whose primary activity is the cultivation of spices, aromatic and medicinal plants, and plants used in pharmaceuticals. In coordination with a public prosecutor from the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime and Corruption, measures and activities are being undertaken to determine whether the marijuana recently seized in the Republic of Serbia originated from our country,” said Interior Ministry spokesperson Goce Andreevski.

The Ministry’s spokesperson said since one of the suspects detained in Serbia is part of the ownership structure of the legal entity in Skopje, detailed inspections and checks were carried out of the quantity found at the legal entity, as well as on the complete documentation discovered at the premises.

Andreevski said a series of irregularities were detected in the operations of the entity, as well as significant discrepancies in the quanitites it possessed, produced, procured, and sold. As a result, all of the marijuana at the premises was seized, and inspections were carried out at the premises of several legal entities in the eastern part of the country, where irregularities were also detected.

The Interior Ministry is set to continue to conduct measures to fully clear up the case, working in coordination with the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime and Corruption, where a special team has been established for the case and other similar cases.

MIA file photo