Who stole 200 kilograms of cocaine from a Balkan drug cartel?

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A shipment of about 200 kilograms of cocaine was stolen in the Zagreb area this spring from one of the Balkan drug clans known for brutal killings, Croatia's Jutarnji List today reports today.

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The cocaine, they say, was stored in a warehouse in the wider area of the capital, and the drug was in secret transit, that is, it entered Croatia covertly from the east and was intended for the market in Western European countries.

The theft of cocaine of great value, as the daily Jutarnji List said it unofficially learned, resulted in a very quick and aggressive reaction of the drug clan, which sent its men to Croatia to find out who stole the drugs, try to retrieve them and punish the culprits.

That "investigation" by the drug cartel allegedly has already resulted in several criminal acts committed in Croatia. Reportedly, there was a kidnapping and beating of a person who was considered responsible for the disappearance of the drugs, as well as an attempt to kidnap that person's associate, and a violent attempt to recover a part of the stolen drugs.

The newspaper writes that despite its attempts, it failed to find out from the police if they knew this about this theft of narcotics.

However, Jutarnji List writes, judging by the series of actions that some elite departments of the criminal police have been carrying out for the last six months, it seems that the are well aware of what is happening.

Namely, during one of the police operations organized throughout Croatia against international cocaine traffickers in the past six months, a person whom the drug clan suspects of having stolen the drugs had been detected.

What is even more important, it it stated, is that this theft of cocaine provides a possible new context to a whole series of arrests of "dangerous guys" from the Balkan underground who, in the past six months, began to "flow" into Croatia using false identities, and who the police would then, in seemingly unrelated operations, arrest on drugs and weapons charges.

The newspaper writes that there is suspicion that some of those persons had been sent to Croatia "on assignment" by a drug clan, specifically to take revenge for the disappearance of the drugs or, on the other hand, to try to find them and retrieve them for the owner.

(Telegraf.rs)