Serbian drug lord bribes media and political parties
The drug boss Darko Saric, who is wanted on an international arrest warrant, is said to have bribed parts of the media and some political parties in Serbia. Slobodan Homen, State Secretary in the Serbian Ministry of Justice, told the Belgrade newspaper Press on Friday.
According to consistent reports in the local media, Saric, who is said to have gone into hiding as a Serbian citizen in neighboring Montenegro, had earned hundreds of millions of euros with drugs. He is said to have invested this money in the purchase of companies and huge tracts of farmland in numerous Balkan countries. Now the public prosecutor for organized crime must make an example of Darko Saric, demanded the State Secretary. "The connection between drug crime and big business, political structures, parties and individual media in Serbia and the region must be broken."
"Total war against organized crime"
The Belgrade newspaper Blic published a report on its front page on Friday according to which there is a connection between the head of the Serbian interior minister's cabinet and the drug boss Saric. This week, Serbian President Boris Tadic once again declared "total war" on organized crime in the country.
"Total war against organized crime"
The Belgrade newspaper Blic published a report on its front page on Friday according to which there is a connection between the head of the Serbian interior minister's cabinet and the drug boss Saric. This week, Serbian President Boris Tadic once again declared "total war" on organized crime in the country.
