When the Portuguese police at dawn on May 30, 2019, in the archipelago near the marina of the town of Horta near the Azores, stopped the transoceanic cargo ship "Yemaya", they found 500 packages with 592,9 kilograms of cocaine and arrested three seafarers from Montenegro , Croatia and Great Britain.
Horta's marina is the main station for yachts and freighters after the Atlantic Ocean prevailed, and after the seizure of a load of expensive powder from Latin America, it was a signal for the Portuguese police to include EUROPOL and numerous police in the investigation, in order to get the names of all the organizers, but also the members international group, which organized the delivery of cocaine to European ports.
Seaman from Kotor Filip Radulović, is believed to have had one of the key roles in the business and he was in charge of recruiting 13 Montenegrin sailors and providing logistical support during cocaine smuggling on the ship "Yemaya". The collected evidence, as announced yesterday by the Montenegrin Police Directorate, indicates that the organizer is an Italian citizen Luciano Camporesi (47) from Rimini, connected to the 'Ndrangeta mafia organization, who has already been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Italy...
Eight people were arrested in the international police operation "Florida 1" in Montenegro yesterday, 11 are in our or European prisons, while the investigation of the Special State Prosecutor's Office includes 28 people on suspicion that in the period from May 2019 to February 2020 , using three transoceanic ships, tried to smuggle 6,1 tons of cocaine.
Members of the Special Police Department searched 33 locations in Montenegro at dawn yesterday and arrested Nikšićan Radislav Vojičić (39), Kotorana Dejan Golubović (62), from Podgorica Slavko Milić (42), Kotorane Nebojša Pejović (55), Jovan Ercegović (27) i Boško Vujović (50).
A citizen of Danilovgrad was also arrested in the international operation Nikola Grgurović (48) and a woman from Podgorica Marija Vojinović Radulović (34).
Ivory Coast, Aruba...
In February 2020, and based on the data of the Montenegrin Police Administration, which it sent to the partner services of Great Britain, in the waters of Venezuela near the island of Aruba, 5,1 tons of cocaine were seized on the ship "Aressa" and 11 Montenegrin citizens were arrested, who sentenced to prison terms of nine to 15 years.
A man from Podgorica has already been convicted of drugs on Aressa Andrija Mugoš (30), Kotorani Nikola Markić (29), Mihailo Djordjevic (58), Tripo Biskupović (37), Vasko Radonjić (50), Vidoje Latković (42), Baranin Dragan Mašanović (46), Dragoljub Zivkovic (67) from Cetinje and from Novi Sad of Montenegrin origin Nikola Martinović (42)...
The Montenegrin sailors, before the arrest, were constantly under surveillance, so it was documented how they put cocaine on the ship, and even the fact that the ship sailed into the waters of the Caribbean Sea without a signal, did not prevent the Navy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from discovering the cargo freighter and starting a search. and the arrest of the ship's crew...
UP states that the organizer of the smuggling of 5,1 tons on "Aressa" is from Podgorica Damjan Vukašinović (39), who was arrested on July 13 this year in Belgrade on an international Interpol warrant. Vukašinović was arrested with false documents...
In the international operation "Florida 1", as announced by UP, the navy of the African Ivory Coast seized 2020 kilograms of cocaine and arrested five citizens of Ghana and two citizens of Slovenia on the ship "Trasgo - Nadudanma" in February 411.
Italian citizen Luciano Camporesi was also charged with organizing smuggling from the Ndrangeta mafia organization, while the entire group was recruited during the transoceanic smuggling of 11 members, among whom were two sailors from Montenegro.
Partners in 14 countries
Action "Florida 1", as it is believed, was a strong police attack on the "Balkan Cartel", which for decades has been recorded in police documents of the world as an important link in the international business of smuggling and delivering cocaine to European ports...
"The preparation and organization of criminal activities was carried out in Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Spain - the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, the United Arab Emirates, while the execution of criminal activities was carried out in Portugal - the Azores Islands, Ivory Coast, Caribbean - Aruba, Grenada, Saba, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Eustatius and St. Martin. Through international cooperation activities, exchange of information, a large number of operational meetings with the law enforcement authorities of the Republic of Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands, individual details and a joint action strategy were defined with the aim of identifying all persons involved in the criminal activity in question, with precisely defined roles, the modus operandi of implementing these activities, including financial transactions between members of the criminal organization and the involved international company, as well as other fundamental elements necessary for the realization of individually planned activities - confiscation and collection of evidentiary material necessary for the implementation of the proceedings before the competent judicial authorities", announced is the Police Directorate.
Police-prosecutor measures and evidence-gathering actions in operation "Florida 1" UP began in 2019 because there were data that citizens of Montenegro, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Great Britain were engaged in "transnational cocaine smuggling via South America - Europe, using different types of vessels".
The SDT is conducting an investigation against 28 persons
The criminal report of the special prosecutor Sanja Jovićević includes the Italians Luciano Camporesi and SA, the citizens of Serbia SM and AD and the Montenegrins IA, JV, DV, FR and ZG who are currently unavailable to state authorities and are being sought or are serving a prison sentence abroad. .
"The discovery and provision of evidence of criminal acts and suspects and the collection of all other information and data that may be useful for the successful conduct of criminal proceedings was carried out in months of continuous cooperation and through the mutual exchange of information between the Special State Prosecutor's Office and the Special Police Department with the European Union Agency for law enforcement - EUROPOL and the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation - EUROJUST, but also through cooperation with the state prosecutor's offices for the fight against organized crime in Italy, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain, in the territories of which countries some evidence is also being undertaken today actions, based on requests from the Special Prosecutor's Office, in the procedure of international legal assistance in criminal matters", announced SDT.
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