Prosecutor’s Office files charge against 26 members of international drug smuggling ring

Podgorica, Montenegro (19 June 2012) – The Supreme Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against 26 persons from Montenegro for involvement in an international drug smuggling ring.

The Prosecutor’s Office stated that the indictments were issued on the basis of evidence collected in collaboration with the prosecutorial offices from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.

During the investigation the Montenegrin Department for suppressing organised crime and corruption lead against 44 persons, the prosecutor’s offices from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia took over the prosecution of 18 nationals of their respective countries.

The investigation resulted in the seizure of 250 kg of marijuana and a large quantity of weapons.

The defendants performed, as the Prosecutor’s Office notes in its press release, the illegal acts in the period between 1 June – 26 December 2011 on the territories of Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia as organisers and members of 4 criminal organisations from the territory of Montenegro, along with criminal gangs from Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina.