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A weapons workshop was found in the north, Kosovo Police arrest one person

Politiko 2025-05-07 15:13:40

A weapons workshop was found in the north, Kosovo Police arrest one person

Kosovo authorities have seized weapons and arrested a suspect for importing and exporting weapons during a raid on several locations in northern Kosovo, the Kosovo Prosecutorial System announced on Wednesday. Police found a weapons factory in North Mitrovica, inhabited by a Serb majority, where they seized “a quantity of weapons, various parts of weapons, and machines that were used in weapons tampering,” the statement said.

The raids were carried out by the Kosovo Police, the Basic Prosecution Office in Mitrovica and the Directorate against Organized Crime in Pristina, upon court order. The suspect, whose identity has not been disclosed, was taken into custody and charged with several criminal offenses, including the unauthorized import, export, supply, transportation, production, exchange, brokerage or sale of weapons or explosive materials, as well as for illegal possession of weapons.

Security authorities did not provide further details about which countries the suspect may have imported and exported weapons from or to. In the past, Kosovo Police have found and confiscated weapons from time to time, particularly in the north of the country.

In March, authorities arrested 16 suspects, including a police officer, for arms smuggling during a wide-ranging police operation in southern and northern Kosovo. At the time, the deputy director of the Kosovo Police for the north, Veton Elshani, told Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL) that among those arrested was a police officer who had been suspended at the time of the arrest. RL learned from its sources that the arrested police officer was from the Serb community./ REL

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