Rozajac Haris Monić He was one of the most important members of the international "Balkan supercartel", as Europol calls it, which is responsible for transporting numerous ocean-going cargoes of tons of cocaine from South America to many European ports.
Members of this organized crime group have been arranging cocaine smuggling from Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Colombia for years, but also monitored and organized routes to ports in the Netherlands, Spain, Italy...
DON'T MISS IT
According to unofficial information Vijesti has received from several sources familiar with the investigation, secret service agents and members of the Special Police Department (SPO) kept Monić under close surveillance for days, simultaneously exchanging information with international partner services...
SPO officers arrested Rožajec on Sunday with a Montenegrin and Dutch passport, and yesterday at around 15 p.m. he was brought in for questioning at the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT).
After the hearing, Monić was ordered to be held in judicial custody.
Video: Boris Pejović
Downloading of video without editorial consent is prohibited.
"On the order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, the Special Police Department, in cooperation with the National Security Agency, deprived HM, a citizen of Montenegro and the Netherlands, of his liberty in Rožaje, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and several criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and trafficking of narcotic drugs, at the international level," the SDT statement reads.
Due to suspicions that he was an important player in international cocaine smuggling for years, the Netherlands issued an international arrest warrant for him through the Interpol system.
In addition to the Netherlands, as Vijesti has learned, several other European police forces have been interested in this Rožajac through Interpol channels.
Monić is accused of being connected to several other important criminals from the former Yugoslavia, mainly from Bosnia and Herzegovina, during his stay in the Netherlands, and of arranging the smuggling of tons of cocaine from that country.
During the investigation by the Special State Prosecutor's Office and the SPO, the newspaper's sources claim, it is expected that investigators will come across information about some more overseas tours, the delivery of which from South America was also facilitated by the defendant Rožajac.
Haris Monić's name is also on the list of company owners in the "land of tulips".
Good connections with South America
In a statement from 2023, Europol stated that the supercartel, whose key players originated from the Balkans, played an important role in international cocaine trafficking, but also had good connections with criminal organizations in South America and Europe, which allowed them to cover a third of that business in Europe.
The power of the superclan, of which the suspect Monić was a member, is best demonstrated by the data from the Dutch police - that for years they controlled a large part of the European drug market and the import of as much as a third of cocaine from Latin America.
Europol claims that the clan has grown stronger due to numerous alliances and an extensive drug network with powerful European drug lords from Morocco, Ireland and Italy...
The Balkan supercartel, according to Europol, has reduced its activities since 2023 after the arrest of some key players, which forced members of the clan to reduce their activities, but also to split into smaller factions.
By 2020, according to Europol data, members of the clan, like numerous criminals around the world, were using the once-protected Sky app to communicate and negotiate smuggling deals.
He wants to build in Podgorica
At the end of last year, the defendant Haris Monić became the owner of the company "Growmax" in Montenegro, which is registered in the Central Register of Business Entities for the construction of residential and non-residential buildings.
The company was founded on November 26, 2025, with headquarters in Lužnica, and Monić is listed as the owner and director of the company.
His company did not submit a financial report for last year.
See more:
Download the app and follow the news
FOLLOW US ON
