Acting on the order of a prosecutor from the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption, SIPA police officers carried out searches and deprivations of suspects of their freedom in a total of nine locations in the Sarajevo area.

It is an operation that is connected to the last week’s deprivation of one suspect of his freedom in the Sarajevo area, when a large amount of amphetamine oil, which is used in the production of narcotics, was seized, as well as one of the largest seizures of the narcotic drug - cocaine, in the amount of about 8.2 kilograms, of top purity, which was discovered and seized in a vehicle near tollbooths on the Sarajevo-Zenica highway a few months ago.

The value of the seized narcotic drug cocaine on the illegal drug market in BiH is several hundred thousand BAM.

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, together with partner institutions and agencies in BiH and abroad, collected evidence of members of the organised criminal group who, over a long period of time, procured narcotic drugs, mainly from the Netherlands, and transported, concealed, smuggled, produced and sold them on the illegal drug market in BiH.

After the searches the deprivations of their freedom, the suspects will be brought for interrogation to the prosecutor working on the case, who will, after interrogating them, make a decision on further activities against the suspects.

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH thanks all domestic and international institutions and agencies that assisted in the successful performance of this extensive operation of combating smuggling of strong narcotics.