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North Macedonia's Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Corruption is investigating how five tons of marijuana got from that country to Serbia, local media reported on Feb. 2.
According to a press release, the Prosecutor's Office has opened a case and is taking concrete, targeted and coordinated action in cooperation and communication with Serbian authorities to determine the full extent of the facts and circumstances related to North Macedonian ties to the case, and ensuring full criminal and legal accountability.
The Belgrade Higher Court ruled to detain three persons after the seizure of five tons of marijuana in the village of Konjuh near Krusevac, central Serbia. One of the detainees is Ivan Dragnic, co-owner of the Skopje-based Alfafarm, which received a license to grow cannabis for medicinal purposes in 2024.
The opposition Social Democratic Alliance of Macedonia has said that five tons of marijuana could not have arrived in Serbia from North Macedonia without the support of government structures.
The party, North Macedonia's largest opposition organization, stressed that the VMRO DPMNE-led coalition government of North Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski was keeping quiet about this cartel scandal, and there are no answers explaining who allowed the vast amount of drugs to cross the North Macedonian border.
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