Albanian and Montenegrin police on Thursday busted a cocaine trafficking network coming from Latin America to the port of Tivar in Montenegro mixed with chemical fertilizer and processed in Albania.
According to unofficial police sources, 15 arrests were made in Albania, Tirana and Fier, while the Montenegrin media talked about some arrests in Montenegro as well.
The cocaine was allegedly hidden in bags of artificial fertilizer that arrived at the port of Tivar in July this year and were then transported to Albania.
According to Albanian police sources, with the help of the American DEA, the Montenegrin and Albanian law enforcement structures kept under observation for three months the hosts of the cargo that resulted in the area of Frakulla e Madhe in Fier, Albania.
Journalist Klodiana Lala in the show "The Unexposed", said that it is about a load of about 400 kilograms of chemical fertilizer mixed with cocaine, which came from Montenegro to Albania, which after cleaning can turn into 200 kg of pure drugs. .
"It is an action by the Albanian and Montenegrin police under the supervision of the DEA. There was a warning about a quantity of drugs that would come with chemical fertilizer. Viktor Cervenaku, the former mayor of Frakull municipality, ordered it in Colombia.
It came to the Port of Tivar in Montenegro, then to Fier. It was a controlled delivery, the police had information but did not intervene until the end point. Viktor Cervenaku had adapted his house as a laboratory.
This is the first time that a quantity of drugs mixed with chemical fertilizer has been seized. The final quantity caught is not known. The arrested person works in a state institution.
"Drugs went to his house with an army truck, if it is cleaned, I can get to 200 kg of clean", said the journalist.