Big police arrest! Fallen counterfeiters in action SBPOK: Smashed two criminal groups!

On the territory of Serbia, two organized criminal groups, a total of 17 people, were arrested today, on suspicion of having committed the criminal acts of forging documents, the criminal act of abuse of official position, and conspiring to commit criminal acts in the period from April 2023 until today.

They were arrested by order of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime in cooperation with SBPOK.

The first organized criminal group consisted of six persons namely: MN, NG, VS, LRS, SB and NP, while the second organized criminal group consisted of 11 persons namely: RB, AB, BD, DG, ID, ZV, MB, MP , SK, B.Đ and SK.

Namely, there are grounds for suspicion that these organized criminal groups procured for further use as well as created forged documents, namely: identity cards, gift contracts, authorizations, powers of attorney which related to the purchase and sale of cadastral plots in AP Kosovo and Metohija owned by displaced persons of Serbian nationality from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, in which way persons of Albanian nationality from the territory of AP Kosovo and Metohija who are interested in obtaining the status of citizens of Serbia were illegally enabled to register their residence, obtain citizenship and false document.

Also, they made falsified certificates, diplomas of completed secondary, higher and higher education to interested persons and thus enabled these persons to use these falsified documents as real ones.

In this way, they created around 400 different documents and obtained illegal property benefits in the amount of 100,000 euros so far. Among the members of these two organized criminal groups are two registrars, a member of the MUP, a former employee of Megatrend University and a counselor employed by the Ministry of Education.

A search of premises in several locations is ongoing

Suspects will be brought to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for organized crime along with a criminal complaint, after which they will be questioned.