Group that smuggled migrants through Serbia to Italy using trucks falls: They took €3,800 per person

Illustration: Customs Administration

Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Service for the Fight against Organized Crime, arrested three people suspected of smuggling migrants through Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia to Italy as members of an organized criminal group.

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In cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, I.M. (39), who is suspected of being the organizer of the criminal group, G.S. (42) and B.J. (44) have been arrested on suspicion that they committed criminal acts of illegal crossing of the state border and human trafficking.

It is suspected that from January until April this year, members of this organized criminal group enabled migrants to cross the state border between Serbia and Croatia illegally.

There are grounds for suspicion that the suspects illegally transferred migrants hidden in trucks to Croatia, and then further enabled them to transit illegally through Croatia and Slovenia to Italy, for which they charged up to 3,800 euros per person.

During the search of apartments in several locations in Belgrade, which were used by the suspects, the police found and confiscated four pistols, a sawed-off hunting rifle, two cars, six mobile phones and a considerable amount of money.

The suspects will be brought before the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, along with a criminal complaint.

(Telegraf.rs)