Police and BIA launch large-scale night-time operation: 16 arrested for kidnappings and murders

The Prosecutor's Office, the police and the BIA agency took part in the operation, RTS reports

16 people suspected of associating in order to commit crimes, kidnappings and aggravated murders were arrested and detained during the night.

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Searches are ongoing in about 30 locations, in addition to those conducted during the night.

The Prosecutor's Office, the police and the BIA (Security-Information Agency) took part in the action, RTS reports.

Organized Crime Prosecutor Mladen Nenadic announced that the arrests were made after several months of joint work of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, several organizational units of the Ministry of the Interior (MUP) and the BIA.

He stressed that the operation was carried out yesterday and during the night in order to preserve the security of Serbia and that it has to do with shedding light on some of the most serious crimes.

"Searches and investigations are underway in 30 locations, and a decision to detain them has been made against 16 people, who will be brought before the Prosecutor for Organized Crime," he told RTS.

Nenadic pointed out that they are suspected of, among other things, associating in order to commit criminal acts of kidnapping and aggravated murder.

According to TV Pink, members of a criminal group that is one of the strongest in the region and has links with a Montenegrin crime clan have been arrested.

(Telegraf.rs)