Fighting organised crime, these are those arrested in Operation “White Star”

The case, codenamed as “>White Star”, is the continuation of the next operation that was conducted last year “The broken water”, which connects to wiretaps on the “app Sky ECC”

KA LLXO.com It teaches that today's detainees have no leading roles, but are part of previous groups that have been identified as members of those groups and are already in custody.

Today's event, which began in the early hours of the morning, took place in Pristina, Pec, Prizren, the Year and the Drenas, under investigation into a case related to organised crime, narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

The five detainees have been detained for 48 hours with the special prosecutor's decision under suspicion of criminal acts, participation or organisation of the organized criminal group -- the purchase, possession, distribution, and unauthorized selling of narcotics, as well as money laundering.

During raids on suspected locations, authorities have seized weapons, money, vehicles and electronic equipment allegedly linked to criminal activity.

According to the announcement, six weapons, five rounds, 239 rounds, 9.67 grams of cocaine, and 3518 grams of marijuana seeds were seized. Also, police have seized 7,595 euros in cash, 10 vehicles, one motorcycle, 25 mobile phones, 10 computers, 13 computers. USB, one DVR and 16 hours of hands.

Representatives of EUROOPOL as well as authorities from Belgium, France and the Netherlands who, together with the prosecutor of the case, have been attending the operation.

The Special Prosecutor and Kosovo Police have stated that they will continue institutional co-operation and co-ordinated actions in combating organised crime, narcotics trafficking and money laundering, aimed at strengthening the rule of law in the country.

The file of persons arrested in the preliminary action codenamed “The Broken White” showed how through shipping routes the drugs that were ordered to Iran, Turkey and Ecuador. The match was done by suspected groups already identified by wiretapping on the SkyEC app. The file describes that drugs were originally ordered to states of South America, Iran and Turkey, and then brought to Kosovo to be transported back to European countries.

The whole case, which resulted in dozens of arrested cars seized, thousands of thousands of euros frozen by the bank, thousands of euros “cash”, and the seizure of dozens of documents came after a several-month Kosovo Police investigation into co-ordination with the Special Prosecutor.

During 2024-2025, the Special Prosecutor had accepted transcripts of wiretapping SkyeCC from France, EUROOPOL and Belgium alike through Kosovo's co-operation with the European Union Agency for Law Implementation- E NOOPOL.

On the basis of reports in 2021 following an investigation into a case from Belgium and France into a police operation other than drugs and other evidence had also been reached by a server SkyeCC.

Kosovo is also required in the investigation. /Periscope