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The arrested man is considered one of the important members of the "Balkan supercartel", as Europol calls it.
Haris Monic from Rozaje was one of the most important members of the "Balkan supercartel", as Europol calls it, an international criminal organization that is suspected of organizing the transport of tons of cocaine from South America to many ports in Europe.
Members of this organized crime group have for years coordinated the smuggling of cocaine from Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Colombia, as well as overseeing and organizing routes to ports in the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and other countries.
According to unofficial information from several sources involved in the investigation, secret service agents and members of the Special Police Department (SPO) had kept Monic under surveillance for days, while simultaneously exchanging information with international partner services.
SPO officers arrested the Rozhaja resident on Sunday, who holds a Montenegrin and Dutch passport, while yesterday at around 3:00 PM he was sent for questioning to the Special State Prosecution Office (SDT).
After questioning, Monic was placed under detention by the prosecution.
"By order of the Special State Prosecution, the Special Police Department, in cooperation with the National Security Agency, arrested HM, a citizen of Montenegro and the Netherlands, in Rožaje, due to well-founded suspicions that he committed the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and several criminal offenses related to the unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotics at an international level," the SDT statement said.
Due to suspicions that he had been an important figure in international cocaine trafficking for years, the Netherlands had issued an international arrest warrant against him through Interpol.
In addition to the Netherlands, as Vijesti learns, several other European police forces had also shown interest in Monic through Interpol channels.
Monic is suspected of being connected to several important criminals from the former Yugoslavia, mainly from Bosnia and Herzegovina, during his stay in the Netherlands, and of organizing the smuggling of tons of cocaine from the Netherlands.
During the investigation by the Special Prosecution Office and the SPO, the newspaper's sources say that investigators are expected to provide information about several other transoceanic transports, in the organization of which Monic is suspected to have participated.
Haris Monic's name also appears on the list of company owners in the Netherlands.
The accused Haris Monic at the end of last year became the owner of the company "Growmax" in Montenegro, registered in the Central Register of Economic Entities for the construction of residential and commercial buildings.
The company was founded on November 26, 2025, with headquarters in Luzhnica, and Monic is listed as its owner and director. His company has not submitted a financial report for the past year.
Strong ties with South America
One of Europol's statements from 2023 states that the supercartel, whose main actors originate from the Balkans, had an important role in international cocaine trafficking, as well as strong ties to criminal organizations in South America and Europe, which enabled them to control up to a third of this activity in Europe.
The power of this supercartel, of which Monic is suspected to have been a part, is best illustrated by Dutch police data, according to which the group controlled a large part of the European drug market for years and the import of up to a third of cocaine from Latin America.
Europol claims that the cartel was strengthened through numerous alliances and a vast trafficking network with powerful drug lords from Morocco, Ireland and Italy. According to Europol, the “Balkan supercartel” reduced its activities after 2023, after the arrest of several key figures, which forced members of the group to reduce their activities and split into smaller factions.
By 2020, according to Europol, cartel members, like many criminal groups around the world, were using the encrypted Sky ECC application for communication and coordination of drug trafficking activities. /Adapted from Pamphlet /
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