An arrest was made. five persons in Serbia who are suspected of being part of the organization criminal groups which smuggled drugs in the amount of about 1,6 tons, weapons and ammunition on the territory of our country, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, France, Germany and the Netherlands. One person is on the run.
As announced by the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, as part of the joint investigation team of the judicial authorities of the Kingdom of Sweden, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Finland and the Republic of Serbia, and in cooperation with the members of the MUP RS SPBOK, by order of the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, the organizer of DM as well as several members (BC, DK, MM and MR) were detained in Serbia today, and one person is on the run.
In the period from May 28, 2020 to May 20 of this year, they, as well as eight other members of this organized criminal group who were deprived of their liberty in the previous period on the territory of other countries, committed criminal acts of conspiracy to commit criminal acts, unauthorized production and placing on the market of narcotic drugs from Article 346, from Article 246 paragraph 5 in relation to paragraph 1 and criminal offenses of illegal production, possession, carrying and trafficking of weapons and explosive substances from article 348 paragraph 3 in relation to paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code.
DM, BC, DK, MM and MR have been deprived of their freedom in Serbia, while one person is on the run. In relation to eight more suspected citizens of Serbia, members of this organized criminal group, the procedure is carried out in the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Norway.
In relation to DS and NV, the criminal proceedings have ended, and they have been sentenced to prison terms, while in relation to JS, NZ, I.Ž, DN, BM and DP, the criminal proceedings are still being conducted, according to the announcement.
As it is added, there is a well-founded suspicion that this 14-member organized criminal group is responsible for the criminal acts for which the charges were committed in the territories of the Republic of Serbia, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of the Netherlands by finding cargo motor vehicles that are owned and registered by companies based in the EU, and then, as part of the legal transport of goods, they covertly transported different types of narcotic drugs in the amount of approx. 1,6 tons and about 62.000 tablets and various firearms and ammunition, in such a way that they stored narcotic drugs and weapons and ammunition within specially built structural cavities of cargo motor vehicles, after which they transported from the territory of the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the territories of the Kingdom of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the statement stated.
Suspects will be brought to the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime along with a criminal report, after which they will be interrogated, by order of the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and in cooperation with the judicial authorities.
