Two senior members of a notorious clan in Spain have been arrested in Barcelona following a tip-off from Austria. Thanks to close cooperation between the Federal Criminal Police and international partner authorities, the two men were taken into custody last Friday and yesterday, Tuesday.
The two are said to have trafficked large quantities of drugs, committed kidnappings and committed the most serious violent crimes, including murder.
Authorities are tight-lipped on details
The Federal Criminal Police did not want to release any further details due to ongoing investigations. Further information on the arrests of the Vracar clan members will be communicated at a later date as the investigation progresses. However, the investigative work was carried out within the framework of the Achilles working group, which was established at the Federal Criminal Police Office in 2021.
The aim of this specialized unit is to combat criminal networks that increasingly operate via encrypted crypto-messenger services and to coordinate their activities there.
Arrested people are seen as big fish
The 31- and 34-year-old Serbs are said to be big fish, so-called “high value targets”, as the Federal Criminal Police Office calls intensive offenders. The arrests took place in the Catalan city after weeks of searches led by the European search network ENFAST and the Spanish search unit FAST Spain.
The leading search unit of the Austrian Federal Criminal Police Office, as well as target search units from Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, France, Bosnia and the Serbian Special Unit against Organized Crime SPBOK and FAST Serbia, were also present. significantly involved. The investigations and arrests were coordinated by Europol.
BKA speaks of a “milestone”
“This international operation is a milestone in the fight against organized crime. The success of this operation shows how important cross-border cooperation between the police and the judiciary is. We will continue to do everything we can to dismantle such criminal structures in the future,” said Andreas Holzer, Director of the Federal Criminal Police Office.
Source: Krone
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