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Detention is requested against fifteen persons related to the action codenamed “Gropa”

Ferizaj, May 24 2022– The Basic Prosecution in Ferizaj, Department for Serious Crimes, has requested the imposition of detention on remand within 30 days by the Basic Court in Ferizaj against the defendants S.Sh., A.D., V.N., S.D., A. Sh., B.H., S.Sh., S.H., M.Sh., Z.S., F.D., M.Y., A.D., H.I., and S.Y., (citizens of the Republic of Turkey), who upon a decision issued the State Prosecutor have been sent to 48-hour detention.

At the request of the Prosecution, there exists a grounded suspicions that from November 2021 to May 23, 2022, the defendants, acting as members of group, have been in possession of (67) kilograms of heroin for the purpose of sale, initially obtained it as a raw material which was trafficked from Iran and to Turkey and from Turkey they trafficked it to the Republic of Kosovo, thus committing the criminal offense “Unauthorized purchase, distribution and sale of narcotics, psychotropic substances and analogues” under Article 267 paragraph 2 in conjunction with Article 275 paragraph 1 under paragraph 1.1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo (CCRK)..