Vaso Ulic allegedly attempted to smuggle 2.5 tonnes of cocaine into Australia, where it commands up to 10 times the European price.
in the Balkans, was allegedly behind Australia’s most high-profile drug import in recent years — two shipments of cocaine totalling 2.5 tonnes.Vaso Ulic, 65, was arrested in a dramatic sting codenamed “General” in Montenegro’s capital, Podgorica, last week ; Ulic was arrested in 2017 .
‘The targeted individuals were closely linked to … a larger drug-trafficking network spread across the Balkan region.’They are an example of what European law enforcement says is a growing trend – importing cocaine to Australia where the drug commands up to 10 times the price in Europe. “The targeted individuals were closely linked to various Montenegrin criminal cells active within a larger drug-trafficking network spread across the Balkan region and beyond,” Europol said in a media release last week about the operation, codenamed “General”.
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