update 6.5.2013 now he is arrested
Mon May 6, 2013 4:32am EDT
(Reuters) – Police in Kosovo have arrested Naser Kelmendi suspected by the United States of trafficking heroin and cocaine to Europe through the Balkans, a senior police source said on Monday.
“He was arrested last night in Pristina,” the source, who asked not to be identified, said. A police spokesman was not immediately available to comment because of a public holiday in Kosovo.
(Reporting by Fatos Bytyci, writing by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
| Monday, 16 November 2009 | |
| By The Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo. Naser Kelmendi, whose alleged drug dealing has long made him a target of Balkan law enforcement agencies, is facing more scrutiny after SIPA made a special presentation to Interpol in Lyon, France outlining what it calls his criminal network. 
Naser Kelmendi Three law enforcement agencies in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) have spent years investigating Naser Kelmendi, a Sarajevo businessman who came to the country from Kosovo soon after the war in BiH and built what investigators describe as a Balkan criminal empire. Kelmendi, his sons and his half-brother, Bećir, run a number of firms in BiH, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, and do business with some of the region’s big businessmen. The State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) has collected an extensive dossier on Kelmendi, 52, who they say has a criminal organization with connections to influential people. Federation of BiH (FBiH) police officials say their colleagues across Europe are acquainted with his history; SIPA officials gave a presentation on Kelmendi to Interpol in Lyon, France in 2008. Although there have been numerous complaints against him, he has never been to trial in BiH. |
13 Sep 12 / 11:14:19
Police Swoop on Suspected Gangsters in Bosnia
Bosnian police arrested 25 suspected criminals and raided dozens of sites in what has been called the “largest police action since the [1995] Dayton Accords”.
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Sarajevo The police action, codenamed “Lutka”, ["Doll"], conducted on September 12 at locations in towns across Bosnia, resulted in the arrest of 25 suspected members of organized Balkan crime rings, police said.
The Bosnian Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday said that all relevant police agencies had joined the State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, in investigating at least six unsolved murders and attempted murders, major bank robberies and other grave criminal acts.
“This action is the most extensive action in the fight against the organized crime in post-Dayton Bosnia,” the Prosecutor’s office said, referring to the accord that ended the 1992-5 war in the country.
“This is an investigation into several criminal groups… and significant collaboration of police and judicial agencies was achieved with neighboring countries, where a number of the suspects also reside,” the Bosnian Prosecutor said on Wednesday.
The crimes in which the arrested men are suspected of involvement relate to the last ten years and include some of the biggest murder cases in post-war Bosnia.
Among the raided locations, SIPA raided the Hotel Casa Grande in Ilidza, near Sarajevo, owned by Naser Kelmendi, an alleged Balkan drugs boss.
Asked about Kelmendi, the director of SIPA, Goran Zubac, said in Sarajevo on Wednesday that he could not give any exact details, but he divulged that some of the arrested men were state officials, including members of SIPA.
The Center for Investigative Journalism, CIN Bosnia, reported that the arrested men include Bojan Cvijan, former chief of the Narcotics Department in SIPA, and Ljubisa Lalovic, a former employee of the Bosnian Border Police.
Zubac said that some of the arrested men “were part of the security and other structures of the Bosnian authorities.
“This is the beginning of the end of organized crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Zubac claimed.
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