After an eight-month investigation, the Croatian State Prosecutor’s Office for the Suppression of Organized Crime (USKOK) filed an indictment against members of a group of international drug traffickers led by the alleged drug lord Dino Muzaferovic, nicknamed Cezar, but Cezar is not among the accused.
Namely, USKOK apparently separated the investigation file into those suspects who were arrested and detained in Croatia and those who were arrested by the police of other countries in a joint international operation and who are in foreign prisons.
Among the latter is Muzaferovic, who at the time of the action was already in prison in Italy, where he was serving a prison sentence for a previous conviction for drugs, and managed the drug trade from the Italian prison with a smuggled cell phone. While the indictment was brought only against the suspects who are in Croatian prisons, USKOK’s investigation against their alleged boss continues, and they will most likely be charged when they are extradited to Croatia.
According to the USKOK press release, the suspects are accused of having at least 23 kg of cocaine, 87 kg of heroin, 131 kg of marijuana, 100 kg of hashish, and an unspecified amount of amphetamine with a total value of 3.313.600 euros. The defendants sold a kilogram of cocaine for at least 30.000 euros, a kilogram of marijuana for 1.600 euros, and 100 grams of hashish for 500 euros. They sold a kilogram of amphetamine for at least 1.300 euros and a kilogram of heroin for 22,000 euros.
Thus, they earned at least 525.640 euros for their criminal association, USKOK stated. Automatic rifles, pistols, as much as 20 kilograms of explosives, and prepared infernal devices with magnets to be attached to cars were also found with them.
Muzaferovic is also being prosecuted for smuggling marijuana into Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and the crown witness in that process was killed by unknown killers shortly after he agreed to testify, N1 writes.
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