Suspected drug lord fugitive for 39 months

Serbian PM and Interior Minister, Ivica Dačić, has said the police are closing in on runaway drug lord Darko Šarić and the next step will be his arrest.

Izvor: Tanjug

Friday, 11.01.2013.

14:09

Default images

BELGRADE Serbian PM and Interior Minister, Ivica Dacic, has said the police are closing in on runaway drug lord Darko Saric and the next step will be his arrest. Dacic at the same time noted that the search for Saric "should stay out of the newspapers", as they could warn the drug lord to change his location, which, according to him, has happened in the past". Suspected drug lord fugitive for 39 months The police lost track of Saric in October 2009 during operation Balkan Warrior, carried out simultaneously in Uruguay and Belgrade. The prime minister added that last year Interpol provided information that "a person who looked like Saric and might be him" was found in the Republic of South Africa, but no new information was received after this and "the country's Interpol office did not inform us what really happened." Commenting on media speculation that a minister in his cabinet was in touch with Saric, Dacic said that if this turned out to be true, the minister would be arrested. First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic also recently said Saric would be arrested but could not specify when, adding he was sure no one in the ruling coalition would think of protecting Saric because they know they would answer before the law. On October 15, 2009, the Uruguayan police in cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Serbian Security Information Agency (BIA) confiscated 2,174 kilograms of cocaine on the yacht Maui and arrested several members of Saric's team in charge of smuggling the drug from Latin America to Western Europe. Saric - a Montengrin who was in mid-2000s given a Serbian passport - evaded arrest at the time despite months of surveillance by the police, BIA and the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office. An warrant for his arrest was issued in January 2010. His brother Dusko Saric was arrested October 16, 2010 in Montenegro on charges of acting as the organizer of cocaine distribution ring in Italy. Tanjug

Suspected drug lord fugitive for 39 months

The police lost track of Šarić in October 2009 during operation Balkan Warrior, carried out simultaneously in Uruguay and Belgrade.

The prime minister added that last year Interpol provided information that "a person who looked like Šarić and might be him" was found in the Republic of South Africa, but no new information was received after this and "the country's Interpol office did not inform us what really happened."

Commenting on media speculation that a minister in his cabinet was in touch with Šarić, Dačić said that if this turned out to be true, the minister would be arrested.

First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić also recently said Šarić would be arrested but could not specify when, adding he was sure no one in the ruling coalition would think of protecting Šarić because they know they would answer before the law.

On October 15, 2009, the Uruguayan police in cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Serbian Security Information Agency (BIA) confiscated 2,174 kilograms of cocaine on the yacht Maui and arrested several members of Šarić's team in charge of smuggling the drug from Latin America to Western Europe.

Šarić - a Montengrin who was in mid-2000s given a Serbian passport - evaded arrest at the time despite months of surveillance by the police, BIA and the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office. An warrant for his arrest was issued in January 2010.

His brother Dusko Šarić was arrested October 16, 2010 in Montenegro on charges of acting as the organizer of cocaine distribution ring in Italy.

Komentari 0

0 Komentari

Možda vas zanima

Podeli: