Ljubljana court remands 13 in four-year drug network probe, two to house arrest
Ljubljana District Court ordered pre-trial detention for 13 of the 15 suspects brought before an investigating judge after 41 house searches across Slovenia and 34 arrests in a four-year international drug probe. Two went under house arrest, and in November the court extended detention by two months for most defendants; police seized 51 kilograms of cannabis in Slovenia.
Ljubljana District Court held a custody hearing for 15 suspects in a four-year
international drug investigation and ordered pre-trial detention for 13 of them.[1]The court ordered house arrest for the other two suspects.[2]Four of the
13 were detained over the danger of reoffending and of absconding, and nine over
the danger of reoffending, the court told the STA news agency.[2]In November
2026 the court extended pre-trial detention by two months for most defendants
and replaced detention with house arrest for one.[3][4]
Police had searched 41 addresses across Slovenia and arrested 34 suspects, 15 of
whom were brought before an investigating judge.[3][4]The investigation lasted
four years and targeted a criminal group operating in several European
countries, whose members lived in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Spain and the Netherlands.[1]Police said they had looked into more than 60
drug-related offences and seven firearms offences.[1]
In Slovenia, police said they had seized51 kilograms of cannabis, part of a
haul in that country that also included 15 kilograms of amphetamine, firearms
and 88,000 euros in cash.[3]Police valued the drugs seized in all the
countries involved at more than 37 million euros on the market.[3]
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N1n1info.siSLPo razbitju mednarodne kriminalne združbe za 13 osumljencev pripor, za dva hišni pripor
Slo24.sislo24.siSLŠtiri leta preiskave, 41 hišnih preiskav in 34 prijetih: kaj je sodišče odločilo o priporu
TV3tv3m.siSLSodišče podaljšalo pripore v primeru mednarodne kriminalne združbe
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The court's account came through the STA news agency; the sources do not say which of the defendants the November extension covers or exactly how many.
The 51 kilograms of cannabis is police data published on 6-8 October; the November report does not revise it.
No charges, indictment or trial date was reported; the case remained at the pre-trial stage.
The suspects are identified only by the countries where they lived; no personal details were published.
The text gives a weight ("51 kilograms") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
Left out arrested, as its quotation was not found in Regional Obala.
Police in Koper detained a 65-year-old man after a drunken public-order incident in which he fell, insulted a passer-by and hit him, and officers seized a small quantity of cannabis from him during the procedure. The Koper Police Administration said a payment order for the violations and a fast-track procedure would follow.
Nova Gorica police searched the home of a 51-year-old British citizen in the municipality of Kanal ob Soči on 3 November and seized eight suspected cannabis plants up to 2.3 metres tall, plus drying stems and dried plant material. Police also fined him for overstaying in the Schengen area and ordered him to leave the country.
Slovenian police with Europol and 22 forces ended a four-year probe on 6 October 2026, arresting 34 suspects in Slovenia plus two abroad and seizing over three tonnes of cannabis within a multi-drug haul; a Ljubljana court remanded 13 in custody.
Police from Murska Sobota searched the homes of two suspects in the Lendava and Murska Sobota administrative units and seized several larger cannabis seedlings, a larger quantity of dried plants, ammunition, a knuckleduster and a firearm silencer. No arrest was reported; police said a criminal complaint would follow laboratory analyses.
