“We must not allow new criminal groups to appear”

Perpetrators of dozens of murders are serving long sentences and the Zemun gang has been destroyed after the arrests in Spain, says Serbia's justice minister.

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Perpetrators of dozens of murders are serving long sentences and the Zemun gang has been destroyed after the arrests in Spain, says Serbia's justice minister. “Now the state has an extremely important task - it must not allow new criminals to fill the empty space created by its exit,” Snezana Malovic told daily Blic. “We must not allow new criminal groups to appear” She said the key problem in fighting organized crime and its main characteristic was that "there is someone in the country that tolerates it." "I think that by strengthening independent institutions and passing laws such as the one on property seizure, as well as numerous trials, we have managed to weaken this link between organized crime and the state," said the justice minister. Organized Crime Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevic told the daily that many organized criminal groups had been taken down. "Most of those who ended up behind bars traded in drugs. Some of them were poisoning our children in schools. We have put a stop to this, because by busting up large gangs, we have cut off the drug dealing networks in Serbia. By taking away their property, we are systematically destroying their empires," he was quoted as saying. According to Radisavljevic, some typical forms of organized crime - trafficking in narcotics, people and scarce goods have been brought to lower levels than the rest of the region and far below the European average, but "there is still work to do." "Several important preliminary investigations are under way, whose results will be visible soon," he stressed. He said the priorities for the coming period were financial crime and corruption. Snezana Malovic (Tanjug, file) Blic Tanjug

“We must not allow new criminal groups to appear”

She said the key problem in fighting organized crime and its main characteristic was that "there is someone in the country that tolerates it."

"I think that by strengthening independent institutions and passing laws such as the one on property seizure, as well as numerous trials, we have managed to weaken this link between organized crime and the state," said the justice minister.

Organized Crime Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljević told the daily that many organized criminal groups had been taken down.

"Most of those who ended up behind bars traded in drugs. Some of them were poisoning our children in schools. We have put a stop to this, because by busting up large gangs, we have cut off the drug dealing networks in Serbia. By taking away their property, we are systematically destroying their empires," he was quoted as saying.

According to Radisavljević, some typical forms of organized crime - trafficking in narcotics, people and scarce goods have been brought to lower levels than the rest of the region and far below the European average, but "there is still work to do."

"Several important preliminary investigations are under way, whose results will be visible soon," he stressed.

He said the priorities for the coming period were financial crime and corruption.

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