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Kosovo Police have arrested seven people during an operation conducted on September 24 in the Pristina and Peja regions.
The Special Prosecution Office announced that the arrested are suspected of involvement in various criminal offenses, such as participation in or organization of a criminal group, unauthorized purchase, possession, distribution and sale of narcotics, and money laundering.
The operation, codenamed "Broken Sky," was carried out in 25 different locations, Radio Free Europe reports.
" The defendants are suspected of using the well-known encrypted communication application SkyECC to organize their criminal activities ," the release said.
During this operation, authorities said they seized significant amounts of material evidence, including nearly 700 grams of drugs, suspected cocaine, cash worth over 11,000 euros, 34 vehicles, seven firearms, false identity documents and various electronic devices.
For this operation, Kosovo authorities cooperated with international counterparts from Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Europol.
In June of this year, Kosovo Police arrested 22 people in an anti-drug operation. At the time, authorities said they had dismantled an organized crime and drug trafficking group that was suspected of committing organized crime through the SkyECC app.
The SKYECC app was created by a Canadian company for secure communications. But in recent years, the app has been used to coordinate the activities of criminal groups around the world.
In August, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) cracked down on a criminal group in Albania that had also used this communication app.
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