Report on the results of BIA activities on organized crime in 2004
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BIA Against Organized Crime And Corruption (2004) |
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| Until 2002, the problem of organized crime was only partially considered under the scope of former State Security Service (RDB) of the Ministry of Interior of Serbia. In accordance with the determined programme of the Government of the Republic of Serbia in the year 2002, after establishing BIA, this problem was classified among the top priorities of Agencies activities. In connection with that, efforts were made to discover, document and prepare prerequisites for eliminating: illegal international channels of trafficking, distribution and production of narcotic drugs, international channels for smuggling cigarettes, crude oil and its derivates, stealing from domestic refineries, smuggling of weapons, activities connected to illegal migration, counterfeit bank notes and stocks and bonds, severe forms of commercial crime, etc. In that scope the essence of the work was directed towards identifying and documenting activities of important individuals and groups that have the character of organized crime. |
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Report on the results of BIA activities on organized crime in 2004 |
| April 12, 2005, A total of 34 kg and 155 grams of narcotics was destroyed in steam power plant "Nikola Tesla" |
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Official statement: On April 12, 2005, the Security and Information Agency has conducted a commissioned destruction of a total of 34 kg and 155 grams of narcotics, by incineration in the steam power plant "Nikola Tesla" in Obrenovac, in keeping with the Criminal Proceedings Code and the Law on the production and distribution of narcotics, and in the presence of the representatives of the District Public Prosecutor's Office, the First Municipal Public Prosecutor's Office, the District Court and the Second Municipal Court in Belgrade. The drugs in question involved different kinds of narcotics - heroin, opium, morphine, LSD, heroin-hydrochloride, Fentanyl, Metadon, Hashish, cannabis, all of which have been seized and confiscated as in the course of several operations conducted by the Agency, in the scope of its counter organized crime activities, which resulted in the interruption of international smuggling channels and the unauthorized production and trafficking of narcotics. See the video clip |
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| July 22, 2003, Another channel of narcotics trafficking has been disrupted |
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Official statement: A coordinated operation of the Security-Information Agency (BIA), the Criminal Police Department of the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Serbia, and the Secretariat of Interior (SUP) of the city of Novi Sad, which was conducted on July 22nd 2004, resulted in the interruption of an illegal narcotics trafficking channel, followed by the arrest of four persons and the seizure of 66 kilos of heroin, with a market value of 2 million Euros. The drugs were supposed to be smuggled from Serbia, through the territory of Hungary, to Spain, in a specially adapted van. The information on the existence of this criminal group dealing with smuggling heroin from Turkey, through one of the major international channels, through the territory of our country and Hungary into the EU countries (above all Holland, Italy and Spain), has been collected by the BIA, in the course of its activities in countering organized crime, with foreign elements. Although the greatest quantity of heroin had been transported to the EU countries, a portion of it was meant to be distributed on the market in our country. Within the framework of this channel, a special role was played by a group of our citizens from Novi Sad - Djuro Dragovic, Goran Kremenovic, Darko Mitrovic and Nada Misic, and also by a certain number of persons connected to them from the whole territory of the Republic of Serbia. The above persons have been taken into custody, for having committed the crime of unauthorized drugs trafficking and criminal complaints have been filed against them. One of the organizers of the group - Djuro Dragovic, tried to ecsape, but was prevented in doing so by an organized police action. See pictures from this action |
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| May 26, 2004, PUBLIC NOTICE |
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Official statement: Acting upon the Order of the Investigative judge of the District Court in Zrenjanin, Mr. Goran Zec, members of the BIA have, based on criminal charges, detained on 25.05.2004 Ljubica Popovic, and on 26.05.2004 Istvan Ripson, judges of the Commercial court in Zrenjanin, for reasonable doubt of having committed the act of accepting bribes (Article 254, paragraph 1, of the Penal Code of the Republic of Serbia), as procedural judges in the case of Andjelko Bitevic from Zrenjanin. Andjelko Bitevic has been placed under preventive custody in Zrenjanin based on reasonable doubt of having committed the criminal act of giving bribes, money laundering (Article 27, paragraph 2, of the Law on the prevention of money laundering) and tax evasion (Article 172, paragraph 3, of the Law on tax administration and tax proceedings). |
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| April 10, 2004, 2 kilos of heroin confiscated |
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Official statement: In a joint operation of the Security-Information Agency and the Secretariat of Interior (SUP) of the city of Belgrade, on April 10, 2004, another channel of narcotics trafficking has been disrupted and 2 kilos of heroin seized, with market value of 70.000 Euros. |
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| March 25, 2004, 10,239 kilos of heroin have been confiscated |
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Official statement: In a joint operation of the Security-Information Agency and the Secretariat of Interior (SUP) of the city of Belgrade, on March 25, of this year, 21 packages of heroin weighing 10,239 kilos in total, with a market value of app. 350,000 Euros, were discovered at a pay toll ramp at the exit for Grocka in a "Golf" vehicle driven by Aleksandar Anastasov. Under suspicion of having committed the criminal act of illegal production, keeping and distributing of narcotic drugs, as stipulated in Article 245 of the General Criminal Code, Aleksandar Anastasov from Kacarevo, Pancevo municipality, Dusan Arnaut from Knin, residing in Belgrade, and Dusica Todorovic, residing in Belgrade, have been arrested. On March 27, Aleksandar Anastasov was criminally charged and brought before the Investigative judge of the District court in Belgrade. See pictures from this action |
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| March 16, 2004, An Entrepreneur and a Judge detained because of giving and receiving bribe |
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Official statement: Belgrade March 16, 2004 the Security-Information Agency (BIA) announced that the judge of the District Court in Nis, Stojadin Jovanovic and a private entrepreneur from Zrenjanin, Andjelko Bitevic were detained today, because of well-grounded suspicion that they have committed the criminal offences of receiving and giving bribe. Jovanovic and Bitevic were detained because of well-grounded suspicion that they have committed the above mentioned criminal offences from articles 254 and 255 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia. Jovanovic and Bitevic, against whom criminal charges were brought before the District Prosecutor, were handed over to the investigative judge of the District Court in Zrenjanin. |
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| February 14, 2004, About 160 Kilos of Marijuana Confiscated |
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Official statement: Members of Security Information Agency, SUP Prijepolje and Customs Department, disrupted in a joint action on 14 February another channel of illegal trafficking of narcotics. At that time on the main road Pljevlja – Prijepolje, at the place called Ravne a truck with registration numbers UE 936-70 was stopped in which 160 kilos of marijuana was found and confiscated, with the market value of about 160,000 Euro. Criminal charges were brought against the truck driver Zarko Brajovic, because of the criminal act of illegal production and placement of narcotic drugs. See pictures from this action |
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| January 21, 2004, Another channel of illegal trafficking in human beings disrupted at the village of Lukovo, Zajecar municipality |
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Official statement: On January 21, 2004, members of Security-Information Agency and SUP Zajecar, disrupted another channel of illegal trafficking in human beings. They have, on the territory of the village of Lukovo, stopped the lorry, “FAP 1620”, driven by Milijan Milenkovic from the village of Burinci, Knjazevac municipality, in which they have found 25 Afghan nationals. The Afghan nationals and the lorry driver were detained and taken to the SUP Zajecar and legal measures will be taken against them. |
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| January 17, 2004, A group of Pakistani nationals detained in Jajinci |
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Official statement: Members of Security-Information Agency and GSUP Belgrade detained on January 17, a group of nine Pakistani nationals, which they have found in a private house in Jajinci, in Krusarska Street no 26. The group has, otherwise, under the cover of economic delegation that had agreed upon business with the Belgrade Company “Invest-import”, obtained regular entry visas for our country but it did not turn up on the agreed upon meeting. It was later on realized that they were not members of economic delegation but illegal migrants so they were detained. It was also confirmed that Dusan Marinkovic, called “Dule”, registered at false address in Djurinci, municipality of Sopot, organized their transport from the hotel “Majestic”, where they stayed to the private house in Jajinci. Marinkovic has, already, earlier exposed himself in the illegal international channel of trafficking in human beings. |
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| January 15, 2004, A chain for trafficking in human beings disrupted in the forest near the village of Ravna near Zajecar |
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Official statement: Members of the Security-Information Agency and the Secretariat of Interior of Zajecar, on January 15th, 2004 disrupted an organized international channel for the illegal transfer of foreign nationals from Middle East countries to Western European states. In the woods near the village of Ravna, 24 foreign nationals were discovered, 21 of which were Afghani nationals and 3 Iraqi nationals. Their transfer from Bulgaria to our territory was organized by a group of citizens of Serbia and Montenegro, and by several Bulgarian nationals as well. |
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