Law enforcement in Bosnia have arrested 23 people suspected of ties to a global drug kingpin. The crackdown targeted criminal networks dominating Europe’s cocaine trade.
Law enforcement officers in Bosnia arrested 23 people suspected of belonging to a 'global drug kingpin's inner circle,' including police and security officials, in a clampdown on criminal networks controlling much of Europe’s cocaine trade, authorities said Tuesday. Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, and Bosnian officials said the suspects were detained Monday as security forces searched their homes and other locations.
The 23 are suspected of being part of the 'inner circle' of a drug kingpin arrested in 2022 and sentenced to seven years in prison a year later in the Netherlands, it said. Police seized guns, money, cars, laptops and other evidence during the raids. Bosnian authorities had previously arrested two other people and seized $58,000, eight firearms, 11 police radios and money-laundering documentation, Europol said.
Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI also participated in the operation, it said. In Bosnia, the state security agency SIPA said authorities temporarily froze bank accounts belonging to the suspects and halted any financial transactions. It said evidence against the group included encrypted phone conversations.
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