A total of 20 suspects were arrested in Bosnia on Wednesday in a major crackdown on a suspected organised crime group that smuggled illicit drugs and firearms from Western Balkan Countries to the EU.
The operation, ordered by the organised crime prosecutors, was being carried out by the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA), the Interior Ministry of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity and the Interior Ministry of Canton Sarajevo. The investigation involved cooperation with police forces in the EU and Europol.
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The organized criminal group is suspected of international smuggling of drugs and weapons for a long period of time, prosecutors said. Members of the group allegedly operated in several countries and narcotics were most often smuggled from Albania and Montenegro to BiH and then further to EU countries – Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary and Germany.
Police raided 50 locations in the area of Banja Luka, Gradiska, Bijeljina, Doboj and Novi Grad and seized 1,850 euros, 70,000 Bosnian Marks, one semi-automatic rifle, three automatic rifles, two pistols, a certain amount of ammunition, a number of mobile phones, tablets, a large number of SIM cards and portable memory devices, an improvised laboratory for the artificial cultivation of marijuana, as well as two passenger motor vehicles.
Among those arrested is Dragan Gavrilovic, the Commander of the Gendarmerie in the municipality of Gradiska who was previously suspended.
Prosecutors said that the suspects used the Sky mobile app to communicate in secret.
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