Montenegrin police arrested nine individuals, including leaders and high-ranking members of organized crime groups, on July 17th.
“Evidence and intelligence suggest that members of this criminal group smuggled a total of 2.47 tons of cocaine from South America to Europe and Australia during 2020 and 2021,” the Police Directorate states.
The prosecutor identified Radoje Zvicer, the alleged leader of the “Kavac” clan, who is at large, and Vaso Ulic, who was arrested in yesterday’s operation, as leaders of the criminal group.
Among those arrested is Viktor Dresaj, while his brother Leon Dresaj is at large.
The Dresaj brothers are listed in the SOCTA (Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment) document as “leaders of a strong criminal clan from Tuzi,” a municipality near Podgorica.
The Special Prosecutor’s Office also filed charges against six individuals who are at large or unreachable by state authorities, including Radoje Zvicer, Vuk Vulevic, and Ivan Delic.
Zvicer is the alleged leader of the “Kavac” criminal clan. Europol data indicates he had significant influence over Montenegrin police activities.
Vulevic, besides being accused of smuggling cocaine from Venezuela, was also charged with the murder of police inspector Slavoljub Scekic but was later acquitted of these charges.
Montenegrin police previously mentioned him as one of the participants in the murder of the chief editor of the Podgorica newspaper “Dan,” Dusko Jovanovic, but no court proceedings were initiated against him for this act.
Ivan Delic has been linked to the murder of the former Federal Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), Pavle Bulatovic, in Belgrade, Radio Slobodna Evropa writes.
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