Edin Gačanin, who is characterized as one of the world’s biggest drug dealers, made an agreement with the prosecutor’s office in the Netherlands, according to the local media.
The guilty plea was confirmed by Edin’s lawyer Laura Versluis after reporting to the NRC (Netherlands Refugee Council). This is a hearing that was held at the court in Rotterdam on November 1, and on November 16 the court approved the agreements and sentenced Gačanin to seven years in prison and a fine of one million euros.
The verdict refers to the import of two shipments of cocaine in 2020 in the total amount of more than 2,400 kilograms through the ports of Rotterdam and Hamburg and the import of chemicals for the production of crystal meth, writes the Dutch Crime Site.
Gačanin is said to have managed the transportation of cocaine to Europe from Peru, especially from 2006 onwards. In 2017, the DEA presented information about Gačanin and characterized that he is the leader of the so-called of the “super cartel” that operated from Dubai and collaborated with the Irish Kinahan clan, the Italian Raffaele Imperiale and Ridouan Taghi.
Gačanin is also on the US sanctions list, which the US Finance Ministry put him on in March of this year.
Edin was arrested in Dubai last year, along with dozens of other suspects. The Netherlands then requested his extradition, according to the NRC because, based on messages on coded applications deciphered by the police, he is suspected of involvement in the importation of two shipments of cocaine and a shipment of chemicals for the production of crystal meth, for which he is now convicted.
Gačanin can serve his sentence in the Netherlands, but also in another country – probably Bosnia and Herzegovina as his home state, Klix.ba reports.
