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Post by adlun on Nov 26, 2009 8:17:22 GMT -5
Half a tone of cocaine seized from Serbian citizens in Argentina The Argentinean police have seized 492 kilos of cocaine in a house in Buenos Aires, where a group of people from Serbia and Montenegro was staying, and the raid was a continuation of the joint action of the Serbian, US and Latin American security services, communicated the Serbian Council of National Security. It has been stated that the judiciary bodies of Argentina have issued warrants for Serbian and Montenegrin citizens Nenad Novakovic, Drasko , Boris Laban, Marko Pandrc and Igor Stjepovic, who have been in the territory of Latin America for more several months. The cocaine has been found in a special cache in the building where this group was staying, also charged with transfer of 2.2 tons of cocaine that was seized on October 15 in Uruguay. This is the continuation of the action aimed at cutting the smuggling of big loads of drugs, and it is the result of cooperation among the agencies of several countries, including the Serbian Security Information Agency, American DEA and the national services of the Latin American countries. \ glassrbije.org/E/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9152&Itemid=26
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Post by Caslav Klonimirovic on Nov 26, 2009 21:35:38 GMT -5
That's a lot of snow to fit in your shoes!
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Post by Bozur on Dec 6, 2009 17:08:03 GMT -5
Serbia: Drug busts will have 'little impact' on mafia
Belgrade, 27 Nov. (AKI) - While Serbian authorities hailed the success of a massive drug bust in Argentina this week, experts questioned whether it would have any impact on the mafia's vast drug smuggling operations from South America to Europe. Argentinian police this week seized 492 kilogrammes of cocaine and detained several nationals from Serbia and Montenegro after a raid on a Buenos Aires home.
The raid followed the seizure of 2.2 tonnes of cocaine from Serbian nationals in Uruguay in October.
Argentinian authorities have issued warrants for Serbian and Montenegrin nationals, Nenad Novakovic, Drasko , Boris Laban, Marko Pandrc and Igor Stjepovic, who are believed to have been in Latin America for several months.
Serbian crime and terrorism expert, Milovan Drecun, told Adnkronos International (AKI) the smuggling of cocaine and other drugs from South America and the Middle East through the Balkans to Europe was nothing new.
“What is new is that citizens from several Balkan countries, namely Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia, have popped up at the forefront as the main ring leaders,” Drecun said.
“In fact, they are just ‘couriers’ for the big bosses, who continue to operate from the shadows.
He argued that drug smuggling was organised by the Albanian mafia in Europe and the United States, where they had the money and long-established contacts with drug producers.
Marko Nicovic, former Belgrade police chief, said that the Serbian mafia had no money to get directly involved in such a big business, but he refused to rule out the involvement of Russian mafia in drug smuggling.
Nicovic told AKI that organised crime had penetrated all levels of the society and criminals were often given short term sentences, or set free for lack of evidence.
President Boris Tadic congratulated the police for their role in breaking the smuggling chain in cooperation with the United States Drug Enforcement Agency and South American agencies.
“This action has been carried out in cooperation with all our security agencies and I congratulate them on their great success which has strengthened the confidence of our citizens in state institutions and international credibility of our country,” Tadic said.
While Serbian police detained 600 people in October in connection with cocaine smuggling, Drecun noted that Serbia had no “long-term preventive state strategy for fighting organised crime”.
Aleksandar Fatic, director of the Centre for Security Studies in Belgrade, told AKI last week that Serbian organised crime was gaining a stronger foothold in the international drug trade by exploiting political corruption in the Balkans and offering heroin and cocaine at record low prices
Fatic said the Serbian mafia was using two major routes to import large quantities of cocaine from South America.
The first route ran from Uruguay and Argentina via South Africa to Northern Italy and Montenegro and a second route from Colombia via central Africa and Turkey to Montenegro.
He said Serbia was under strong pressure from the European Union to crack down on organised crime and drug smuggling because Europe is unable to cope with the “roots of crime and drug smuggling in Kosovo” which declared independence from Serbia last year. www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.4045875354
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Post by EriTopSheqeri on Dec 6, 2009 23:27:26 GMT -5
Yeah blame the Albanian for everything....might work with your peasants but not with the Internationals
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