Lajcak: Someone took money for Kosmajac’s citizenship

BRATISLAVA / BANJALUKA – Slovakian Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak has said that someone in Slovakia took money to help drug dealer Dragoslav Kosmajac (61) obtain the country’s citizenship.

Lajcak said it was a shame to know that many drug dealers from the Balkans have Slovakian citizenship, pointing to Darko Saric and an Albanian from Kosovo under the name Baki Sadiki, convicted for smuggling heroin, as examples, media in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (RS), report.

How is it possible that all these people bought Slovakian passports? I have no doubt that someone took a huge amount of money for that, Lajcak told reporters in Slovakia.

Kosmajac, whom Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic called a few days ago Serbia’s biggest drug dealer, got the Slovakian citizenship on September 13, 2004. The Slovakian authorities are currently checking whether his documentation was correct.

Based on the citizenship, Kosmajac got a personal ID card enabling him to travel to all EU countries and a passport, which he used last Saturday to enter Montenegro and later, as Montenegrin authorities believe, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

Media in the region reported earlier that Kosmajac had obtained his ID card at the same police station in Bratislava as Darko Saric two years later.

On the night between Friday and Saturday, a few hours after Prime Minister Vucic pointed his finger at Kosmajac as Serbia’s biggest drug lord, the man entered Montenegro from Serbia at the Jabuka-Rance border crossing.

Podgorica-based daily Vijesti then reported that he had been seen in Herceg Novi and that he owned a luxury villa in the small village of Strp near the town of Risan, in the Montenegrin Bay of Kotor.