Arrest of fraudsters in cooperation with Great Britain

BELGRADE - The police arrested three foreigners in Kraljevo, central Serbia, within the action aimed at provision of international legal assistance to Great Britain authorities, Serbian Prosecutor for Organised Crime Miljko Radisavljevic said.

The action was conducted in several countries against an international organised criminal ring involved in frauds, Radisavljevic told Tanjug.

The police arrested two citizens of Great Britain and one Morocco citizen on founded suspicion that they performed acts of joint criminal enterprise to commit crimes, frauds, money laundry and illegal production and sale of drugs, the Serbian Interior Ministry released.

According to the latest data, at least 89 people suspected of membership in the group were arrested at a number of locations in the U.S., Great Britain, Spain and Serbia.

One of the organisers of the criminal ring was arrested by the Serbian police in Kragujevac.

On grounds of available information, the criminal ring caused damages to a large number of citizens in EU countries by frauds the value of which has been estimated at GBP 1.6 million.

Within only several days, the leader of the criminal group and several other members were located in Kragujevac.

The locations where the suspects lived, premises in which they performed their criminal activities and the vehicles they used were identified successfully.

The Interior Ministry does not have information that the international criminal ring committed frauds in Serbia or that it damaged any citizens or companies in the country.

The ring leader based a part of his criminal activities in Serbia and directed them toward Spain, Great Britain and other EU countries, states the...