Officials address public after fugitive's arrest

Officials address public after fugitive's arrest

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vučić has said that a working group formed in June 2013 used "the most complex methods and resources to locate and arrest the most wanted fugitive."

Vučić spoke in Belgrade on Tuesday, during the part of the government meeting opened to the public, and after it was announced that the suspected fugitive drug boss Darko Šarić was arrested in Montenegro and transferred to Belgrade.

Vučić specified that those methods included "secret following of the (Šarić) clan members for 270 days, constant monitoring of facilities, GPS locating on 20 buildings, intercepting of emails and internet communications, eavesdropping in open air and indoors, secret searches in various locations, collaborative network abroad and in the country, including collaboration with partner agencies."

He also said that Šarić "arrived to the Montenegrin airport on a plane of a Latin American nation." The fugitive was allowed to stay a while in the airport's "international zone in order to see his family," said Vučić, and added this was "the only condition that Šarić made." Competent authorities of Serbia took him over from this Montenegrin airport and he arrived in Belgrade, according to Vučić.

Vučić also said that a special BIA team worked with "at least 15 services," and expressed special gratitude to the American CIA.

"After locating all movements and the network of Darko Šarić in four Latin American countries, we started the conversation within the BIA about how and in what way to conduct the arrest. Special thanks go to the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro with whom we coordinated all actions in accordance with the signed agreement,"...