The Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Corruption (PPO OCC) informs that the current course of the investigation, which has been conducted since February this year at the Public Prosecutor’s Office OCC for the organized transport of five tons of marijuana from Macedonia to Serbia, indicates a wider circle of people involved in organized criminal activity, the Macedonian Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) said Tuesday.
The evidence obtained from the investigative actions undertaken and the international cooperation with the competent authorities of Serbia, resulted in the adoption of a new Order for the conduct of investigative proceedings against seven more people. The seven are suspected of having committed the same criminal offense as members of the organized criminal group: Unauthorized production and distribution of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors.
From a currently undetermined period during 2025 until the end of January 2026, on Macedonian and Serbian territory, the six against whom proceedings are being conducted in Serbia, the six covered by the investigation of the PPO OCC since February, the seven new suspects, as well as other currently unknown persons, joined forces for the unauthorized sale and circulation of the narcotic drug marijuana. Each of them had a specific role, whereby they themselves or through other unknown persons took over, held and transported marijuana for its further unauthorized sale and circulation on the territory of Serbia and other countries.
The legal entity in Skopje that holds a permit for the cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes and a permit for the production of cannabis extracts for medical purposes was used as a cover for the illegal activities.
Meanwhile, in the proceedings before the Public Prosecutor’s Office OCC, on August 10, 2026, the Skopje Criminal Court issued two verdicts based on proposed plea agreements concluded with two suspects. With the plea agreements, the suspects admitted to having committed the crime they are charged with. They were sentenced to prison terms of three years and six months, or three years and eight months.
