Montenegro: Alleged Serbian Drug Lord Arrested

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A man who the Serbian prime minister has called “the biggest drug lord” in the country was arrested Monday in Montenegro, but he was released Tuesday after interrogation.

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July 22nd, 2014
Drugs Police

kosmajacMontenegrin police detained Dragoslav Kosmajac in the town of Kotor, Balkan Insight reports. Police said Tuesday he would have to leave the country immediately. Other media reported he would be extradited to Serbia, according to Balkan Insight.

Kosmajac fled Serbia last month after Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić held a press conference in which he fired the chiefs of five police departments, including Rodoljub Milović, the chief of the criminal police, for interfering in politics and being in contact with “Kosmajac, the biggest drug dealer.”

Milović is suspected of hiring Milutin Marković, also known as Puta, an associate of Kosmajac, to follow Dragan Marković Marconi, the deputy director of the Serbian Security Information Agency (BIA), during a trip to Vienna in 2010, reports Politika.

Marković allegedly met with Milović at a restaurant in Belgrade to share the information he had gathered on Markoni.

Markoni resigned from his deputy director position in the BIA after being questioned during a bribery case and failing a lie detector test, but he is now an advisor to the director of the BIA, according to Politika.

Kosmajac is suspected by Serbian authorities and the US Drug Enforcement Administration of creating drug trafficking channels from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro and Turkey to Western Europe, according to Balkan Insight.

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