Aleksandar Miodragovic has admitted to bringing €250,000 (US$330,700) to Brazil to buy cocaine for Saric. Saric’s group sent the drugs to Europe via transatlantic cargo ships.
In addition, to the father and son pair and Saric, the indictment covers eight other defendants. Among them is Nikola Dimitrijevic, the alleged leader of the Brazilian portion of Saric’s gang. He is charged with procuring the cocaine, renting apartments and storage facilities where the cocaine was stored and purchasing vehicles to transport the drugs.
The authorities are no closer to catching Saric, and unsubstantiated claims about his location provide little help in the hunt for this Montenegrin drug lord.
Six other members of Saric’s group entered guilty pleas in March.
In March 2008, the Brazilian police seized 1.23 tons of cocaine in a storage facility in Sao Paolo. They determined that the cocaine belonged to drug dealers from the Netherlands, who purchased 1.1 tons from Saric’s group. The police obtained the information from smugglers who provided the remaining 130 kilograms found in the storage.
