SDT charges three members of Zvicer's team with smuggling cocaine and laundering money

Acting on a criminal report from the Special Police Department (SPO), the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) initiated proceedings against Igor Seferović and brothers Vukašin and Darko Hrnjez for creating a criminal organization, drug trafficking and money laundering.

The SDT charges the trio with smuggling at least 20 kilograms of cocaine from Croatia to Montenegro as members of the Kavac cell of the Balkan drug cartel, led by fugitive Radoje Zvicer.

According to the SDT's allegations, they laundered money during 2019 and 2020.

"The subject of the proceedings is the concealment and false presentation of facts about the ownership of property known to have been acquired through criminal activity, in that the suspects DH and VH, with money obtained from the sale of narcotics, financed the construction and furnishing of two buildings in Tivat, one with a basement, ground floor and two floors, with 10 residential and non-residential spaces, and the other with a ground floor and three floors, with a swimming pool on the floor above, with three garages and six apartments, which were registered as the property of the suspect IS, in order to conceal ownership," the SDT statement states.

Seferović was arrested a few days ago in an SPO operation.

"The IS suspect was detained after questioning and it was proposed to the investigating judge to order his detention, while the other suspects are currently unavailable to state authorities. The Special State Prosecutor's Office has launched a financial investigation against the suspects, with the aim of permanently confiscating property that is determined to have been acquired through criminal activity," the statement concludes.