Below we present:
- encrypted birthday message on the app Sky as a trigger in USKOK’s case against the network associated with Kristijan Palić
- the internal hierarchy of the group and the roles of members, including the “bookkeeper”, logistics and wholesale buyers
- cross-section of communications, location and route of shipments between the Balkans, the EU and South America, with the participation of several police forces
- experiences and attitudes of the actors from the messages, along with statements about reports and disputed “contracted murders”
- profiles of prominent names, from veterans like Branko Salapića to international contacts and places of possible trial
One birthday greeting to an encrypted user on the Sky application, which has so far exposed dozens of members of the Balkan drug cartels, was fatal for one of the biggest drug gangs in Croatia and Southeast Europe so far.
A fatal card
This stems from the indictment that USKOK brought against 20 defendants headed by s Kristijan Palićwho turned 40 on Thursday, and who, after he was arrested in Turkey, was identified as one of the organizers of the Western Balkans wing of the international drug cartel by Croatian MUP and Europol police officers.
“The old men, brother, sister, Ivoci, grandfather and grandmother join in the congratulation.” “Happy birthday, brother,” read the congratulatory message to the birthday boy, and Palić was born on April 23, 1986. The message is part of the indictment’s evidence…
