
SPAK announced today (January 30) that it sent the organizer of a structured criminal group to trial.
He is Emiljan Burba, who is accused of trafficking about half a ton of hashish drugs with a truck of industrial wooden pallets to Austria, a case cracked by the Shkodra Border Police and Anti-Drugs in September 2023.
SPAK announcement:
The Special Prosecution Office against Corruption and Organized Crime has sent on 27.01.2025 for trial to the Special Court of First Instance citizen Emiljan Burba, accused of being the organizer of a structured criminal group, within the framework of criminal proceedings, no. 159 of 2024.
EB is accused of committing the criminal offense of "Drug Trafficking" in collaboration with the form of the structured criminal group "Structured Criminal Group", provided for by articles 283/a/1, 28/4, 333/a/1, 334/1 of the Criminal Code.
On 29.07.2024, the Special Prosecution Office against Corruption and Organized Crime received the acts and registered the criminal proceedings on the basis of the declaration of incompetence in the investigations by the Prosecutor's Office of General Jurisdiction, Shkodër.
Investigations were conducted regarding the incident at the Hani i Hotit (Bozhaj) border crossing point at the entrance to Montenegro, on 17.09.2023, at around 00:30, when a quantity of cannabis-type narcotic substance was discovered and seized, with a total weight of 442,084 kg. This quantity was discovered during the inspection of a heavy-duty motor vehicle of the “Renault” brand with AB948IX license plates and a “Krone” brand trailer, with AJR363 license plates, driven by citizen Ilirjan Orhan and passenger Kristi Orhan. The two citizens were transporting pallets to the Republic of Austria and inside them were hidden 73 large PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) packages and 112 smaller packages, wrapped in natriban. The commercial entity and the truck turned out to be registered in the name of fictitious persons. The two above-mentioned citizens were arrested in flagrante delicto and criminally prosecuted by the judicial authorities of Montenegro.
Investigations showed that the scheme used for drug trafficking was carried out through the creation and registration at the National Business Center (NBC) of several fictitious commercial entities (without commercial activity, real address and with forged documents), in whose name were issued invoices for the export of goods that were then loaded onto means of transport, registered with forged documents, where the narcotic substance was hidden, for the purpose of trafficking. This scheme showed a high degree of organization, sophisticated and typical of a structured criminal group.
For this criminal proceeding, investigations have been separated for other participants in the structured criminal group, identified and unidentified, for the aforementioned episode and other episodes of drug trafficking.