Republika Srpska

20.November 2025 Dragan Maksimović / DW

Cocaine, camera and campaign: How a secret recording brought down Đajić in three hours

The publication of a compromising video in which the director of the UKC RS Vlado Đajić discusses the purchase and sale of narcotics caused a political shock in Banja Luka and the fastest judicial reaction in recent history. In just a few hours, one of the key members of the SNSD was overthrown, while the pre-election scene turned into a spectacle of confrontations and mutual accusations.

TV maniac

15.May 2025. Dragan Ilic

Marquise handkerchief

For the purposes of discrediting the EU, even some kind of bizarre video was used, in which drunken people pee from bridges into canals at some kind of party in the Netherlands. "Informer" immediately connected the story of a decadent Europe that is experiencing its demise

Germany

22.January 2025 Srećko Matić (DW)

You order a pizza, you get cocaine

Croatian Stipe R. thought for a long time about what he could offer to customers and then it occurred to him that it should be "something completely different, something they don't know". Along with pizza, he also sold them cocaine. Now his trial begins in Düsseldorf

Increased number of drug users

06.May 2024. IM / Phonet

Increasing use of cocaine among women in Kosovo

Director of the Clinic for Psychiatry KKUK Faton Kutlovci said that there are only nine beds in the department of addiction, while in the first three months of this year there were 35 patients

Drug trafficking

08.march 2024 JH/FoNet

Drug sales in the EU turn over 31 billion euros per year

Annual drug traffic in the European Union is worth 31 billion euros, according to a report by Europol and the European Center for Monitoring Drugs and Drug Addiction. Drug organizations from the Balkans also have a large share in that business. There are a hundred organized criminal groups from the Balkans in Spain alone

Chronicle

04.march 2024 NR

Prosecution: Petrović will not be held criminally responsible, he was not really drunk and drugged

In the bizarre decision of the First Basic Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, it is stated that Nikola Petrović, the former head of Elektromrež Serbia and the godfather of Aleksandar Vučić, is not criminally responsible for the traffic ticket from last year - perhaps only a misdemeanor. According to the Prosecutor's Office, cocaine was in the urine, but according to them, this is not proof

Organized crime

07.October 2023 Jelena Zoric

Son of "Serbian cocaine king" arrested in Brazil

Aleksandar Nešić, the son of the convicted drug dealer, the "Serbian king of cocaine" Goran Nešić Ciga, was arrested in Brazil on suspicion of smuggling cocaine and being the leader of a Balkan drug cartel.

GI-TOC research

04.October 2023 Jelena Zoric

Heroin, cocaine and the state apparatus

Serbia ranks third out of 44 countries on the European continent in terms of the prevalence of crime. Only Russia, which is in first place, and Ukraine, which is in second place, have worse positions than it, according to the index of organized crime for 2023 published by the Global Initiative to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).

Chronicle

01.September 2023 MJ

Attack on the Balkan cartel: 2,7 tons of cocaine seized

The 2,7-year-old SK, the organizer of a criminal group, was arrested in Serbia along with three other suspects, the MUP announced on Monday. They are suspected of smuggling XNUMX tons of cocaine from South America

Drug trafficking

06.August 2023 MJ

Parts of Colombia are now awash with cocaine

In some parts of Colombia - a country that produces about 60 percent of the world's cocaine supply - white chunks of coca paste are piling up and prices are falling

Research of the weekly "Vreme"

17.May 2023. Jelena Zoric

The Balkan cartel in the service of the 'Ndrangheta

Skilled bandits and robbers, contract killers, drug dealers, sailors and drug smugglers are part of the Balkan cartel, which has been managing the transportation of cocaine from South America to Europe for decades, as well as the further distribution of drugs. Above them is only the biggest mafia in the world - the Italian 'Ndrangheta, which is actually the real owner of more than 60 percent of the cocaine that is distributed from the jungles of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia to all continents. Who is who in the Balkan Cartel and how are they connected to the 'Ndrangheta, but also to the motorcycle gang "Hell's Angels"

The World

21.October 2022 JH

Colombia: Coca cultivation increased by 43 percent

Colombia has increased its cultivation of coca, the main ingredient in the production of cocaine, by 43 percent, according to a new United Nations report. Leftist President Gustavo Petro believes that the problem of drug trafficking can disappear when coca products are legalized and promises to strip drug traffickers of their power and ties to the state.

Overview of the week

31.December 2021 Philip Schwarm

Cocaine, marijuana and influence peddling: Justice for Dijana Hrkalović

While Predrag Koluvija and Darko Šarić will each spend the holidays in their own homes, there is no mercy for the former MUP secretary Dijana Hrkalović - she was sent back to the prison cell. Marijuana grower and cocaine smuggler now appear to him as errors of the justice system: the president of Serbia personally defends Koluvia, the state takes the word of Šarić