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The escape ends, the "Escobar of the Balkans" is arrested.
The Austrian Federal Criminal Police Office's "Operation Achilles" has arrested one of the most wanted men, considered the "Escobar of the Balkans" due to the large quantities of drugs he trafficked.
The arrested person is Ramo R., who allegedly ran an international drug ring, whose members have already been sentenced to more than 1,000 years in prison since 2021.
The 52-year-old dual citizen, holding an Austrian and North Macedonian passport, was captured in the Andalusian coastal town of Fuengirola after 9 years on the run.
As the Kronen Zeitung reports, the arrest was part of Operation Achilles.
The encrypted mobile phone services ANOM and Sky EÇ proved to be the drug lord's undoing. He had been using these channels to coordinate his illegal business for years. Investigators managed to attribute over a ton of drugs to the organization led by Ramo R.: 223 kilograms of cocaine, 107 kilograms of heroin, 493 kilograms of cannabis and 141,000 ecstasy tablets with a market value of 34 million euros.
According to heute.at, the suspect had built a complex network over the years, stretching from South America through Spain to Turkey and Iran. Ramo R., nicknamed "the boss", was already known to the authorities. He was arrested in Vienna in 2015 after he rented apartments specifically to arrange drug deals with his criminal organization, which had flown in from the Balkans.
After four and a half years in prison, the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office issued a new EU arrest warrant. "With this arrest, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) once again demonstrates its central role in the fight against organized crime," BKA Director Andreas Holzer told the Kronen Zeitung, commenting on the investigative success.
With the help of the FBI and Europol, the task force is evaluating more than a billion chat messages from decrypted app services. Investigators face the challenge of analyzing an average of 4.5 million messages for each suspect.
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