In yesterday’s coordinated police action and USKOK about a hundred police officers took part, and 10 people associated with drug smuggling.
Police also released footage of the action today.
Two separate criminal groups suspected of smuggling at least 609kg of cocaine have been arrested in Croatia, earning about 17m euros from trafficking. At the same time, Darko Saric was arrested in Serbia.
Darko Šarić he was born on October 21, 1970. He was convicted six times by the Municipal Court in Pljevlja for five different criminal offenses, endangering safety at work due to negligence, destruction of appliances in mines or other construction companies, destruction of business and residential premises, embezzlement and illegal possession weapons and explosives. He was first convicted as a juvenile in 1988, when he was given an educational measure of increased parental supervision. He was next sentenced in 1992 to a suspended sentence, the third time in 1994 to four years in prison.
According to the media, he led a 10-member criminal association Petar Cosic aka Sarac who was arrested in 2011 in Operation Dogma for smuggling 339 kilograms of cocaine and sentenced to four years.
According to Uskok suspicions, from November 2019 to April 12, 2022, Cosic connected other suspects and several other people in Croatia, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia and Ecuador to smuggle cocaine.
The prosecution specified that Cosic procured cocaine, supervised its transport and unloading, approved its sale and sale price, as well as the method of payment, and organized the extraction of cocaine from containers delivered to Croatia, while other members of the 10-member group financed cocaine loading. , supervised the transport, paid the participants and took over the drugs in the Port of Ploče, which they then distributed.
In that way, the 10-member group smuggled at least 609 kilograms of cocaine, which they resold in the value of more than 17 million euros, Uskok pointed out.
In that group was Milan Milovac aka Cigla, who in the meantime died in Ecuador as a result of an assassination attempt by Cosic, who was dissatisfied with Milovec’s inability to make contact with drug suppliers from Ecuador and Colombia, as well as with Cosic’s group.