Serbian Interior Ministry officers, working with the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, arrested three members of an organized criminal group in Serbia.[1] Simultaneously, Slovenian Interior Ministry officers arrested three other members of the group: a Serbian national, a Slovenian national, and a Bosnian national.[1]
The group members are suspected of opening international road-transport companies in Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia, onto which they registered trucks used for drug smuggling.[1] In each truck, bunkers were built inside the cabins to conceal drugs, while the cargo compartment carried legitimate loads.[1]
In the second half of 2025 in France, in cooperation with the French customs, two drivers, Serbian nationals, were arrested who were smuggling drugs by truck from the territory of the Kingdom of Spain for the group, and in two separate operations 471 kilograms of hashish and 15 kilograms of marijuana were seized.[1] In May 2026 in Slovenia, the partner unit of the Slovenian Interior Ministry arrested a Serbian national and a Slovenian national at the handover of 60 kilograms of cocaine and 46,000 euros.[1]
Cooperation was established with police in Hungary, France, Croatia and Austria, with information exchanged via liaison officers and through Europol and Eurojust channels.[1] The suspects arrested on Serbian territory were brought, with a criminal report, to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime.[1] Officers from the Interior Ministry’s Criminal Police Directorate, the Service for the Fight against Organized Crime and the Section for Suppression of Organized Drug Smuggling participated in the arrests.[1]
In two separate actions in France, 471 kilograms of hashish and 15 kilograms of marijuana were seized in the second half of 2025.[2]
