Drug reselling earned around 590 thousand euros

(Patria) - Five members of an organized criminal group, who earned around 590,000 euros by reselling about half a ton of drugs, have been detained, the Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime in Croatia /USKOK/ announced.

"Four are already in pre-trial detention, one is serving a prison sentence," USKOK stated, after the final phase of a previous criminal investigation aimed at dismantling the group linked to drug smuggling involving 20 individuals was realized yesterday.

The prosecution suspects that from currently undetermined illegal drug manufacturers and smugglers, the two suspected leaders of the group purchased larger quantities of marijuana, cocaine, amphetamine, and MDMA from June 2019 to March 2021 for further resale, and stored some of it at an address in Zagreb, where they would repackage it and prepare it for delivery to agreed-upon buyers.

USKOK suspects that they procured at least 761.5 kilograms of marijuana, 15 kilograms of amphetamine, 9.1 kilograms of cocaine, and 3,000 MDMA tablets, of which they sold at least 554 kilograms of marijuana, eight kilograms of cocaine, eight kilograms of amphetamine, and 1,000 MDMA tablets, thereby acquiring an illegal property gain of at least 590,000 euros.