29 Oct 2010 / 14:18
Sabina Arslanagic
Four Bosnian nationals were indicted for “illegal production and trafficking in arms and explosives”, the prosecutors of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina said in a statement.
The statement added that Vlastimir Paradjina, Dragoslav Madzgalj, Sasa Karadzic and Dolovac Esref were part of an organised crime group which, among other things, produced two remotely controlled explosive devices which were smuggled into Serbia with the intention to be tranported further to Holland.
The devices were allegedly made by Karadzic following a request from Madzgalj.
Madzgalj also allegedly sold two machine guns, two automatic handguns and 15 pistols intended for international arms sales over the period of four months, starting at the end of last year.
Dolovac organised the transport of three handguns he had “purchased from an unknown individual in Bosnia” to Serbia’s southern province of Sandzak, according to the indictment.
All the indicted men were arrested in April during a coordinated police operation in Bosnia and Serbia, the prosecution spokeswoman Selma Hecimovic told Balkan Insight.
They were released after spending over a month in detention, but their travel documents were seized and they are required to regularly report to police.
In April, officials said that several people had been arested in Bosnia and Serbia as part of a crackdown on an organised group of arms smugglers.
The search of several facilities in Sarajevo and nearby villages of Sokolac and Mokro conducted at the time yielded twenty five handguns and five machine guns.
Both Bosnia and Serbia are part of the so-called Balkans route used to smuggle drugs and arms to western Europe.
Four Bosnian nationals were indicted for “illegal production and trafficking in arms and explosives”, the prosecutors of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina said in a statement.
The statement added that Vlastimir Paradjina, Dragoslav Madzgalj, Sasa Karadzic and Dolovac Esref were part of an organised crime group which, among other things, produced two remotely controlled explosive devices which were smuggled into Serbia with the intention to be tranported further to Holland.
The devices were allegedly made by Karadzic following a request from Madzgalj.
Madzgalj also allegedly sold two machine guns, two automatic handguns and 15 pistols intended for international arms sales over the period of four months, starting at the end of last year.
Dolovac organised the transport of three handguns he had “purchased from an unknown individual in Bosnia” to Serbia’s southern province of Sandzak, according to the indictment.
All the indicted men were arrested in April during a coordinated police operation in Bosnia and Serbia, the prosecution spokeswoman Selma Hecimovic told Balkan Insight.
They were released after spending over a month in detention, but their travel documents were seized and they are required to regularly report to police.
In April, officials said that several people had been arested in Bosnia and Serbia as part of a crackdown on an organised group of arms smugglers.
The search of several facilities in Sarajevo and nearby villages of Sokolac and Mokro conducted at the time yielded twenty five handguns and five machine guns.
Both Bosnia and Serbia are part of the so-called Balkans route used to smuggle drugs and arms to western Europe.
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