Two Foreigners Arrested on Interpol Warrants in One Day
Police arrested a Chinese national at the airport and a North Macedonian national at Bogojevo on August 2. Both are wanted abroad, one by Kyrgyzstan, the other by Greece.
Two foreign nationals were arrested on August 2 while entering Serbia, both on international warrants. One was stopped at Nikola Tesla Airport, the other at the Bogojevo border crossing. The first is wanted by Kyrgyzstan, the second by Greece. The Interior Ministry announced both arrests the same day.
The same units carried out both operations. Officers involved included:
- members of the Criminal Police Directorate
- the Department for International Police Cooperation, known as Interpol
- police officers from the Border Police Directorate
Chinese National Stopped on Entry
At Nikola Tesla Airport, police arrested W. C. (39), a citizen of the People’s Republic of China. The warrant against him was issued at Kyrgyzstan’s request, for criminal prosecution on a theft charge.
A warrant issued for prosecution means the case in the requesting country has not been concluded. Until a final ruling, the presumption of innocence applies. The suspect is charged with the offense, but guilt has not been established.
North Macedonian Faces a 16-Year Sentence
The second case is legally different. At the Bogojevo border crossing, police arrested Z. V. (57), a citizen of the Republic of North Macedonia. He too was stopped while entering Serbia.
Greece is seeking him to serve a 16-year prison sentence. The Greek warrant lists the charge as forming a criminal organization for the purpose of computer fraud. This is a sentence already handed down, not an accusation still being examined.
Sixteen years is a heavy sentence even for organized crime. A penalty of that scale suggests Greek courts do not view the man as someone acting on another’s orders, but as someone tied to founding the group itself.
How Do the Two Cases Differ?
The difference lies in what each warrant seeks. In the first case, the requesting country wants the man to stand trial. In the second, it wants him to serve a sentence already imposed.
That distinction shapes how each man is described. The Chinese national is referred to as a suspect. For the North Macedonian national, there is no question about guilt, only about where he will serve his sentence.
What the two men share is where they were caught. Both were arrested right at Serbia’s entry points, during border checks, not after time spent inside the country. It is a textbook result of passport checks run through Interpol’s databases.
What Happens Next
In both cases, extradition proceedings to the requesting country are now underway, to Kyrgyzstan for W. C. and to Greece for Z. V.
Two unrelated cases fell on the same day, at two different points of entry into the country. An airport checkpoint and a road border crossing have little in common beyond the database against which every traveler is checked.
The Interior Ministry has not released further details about the circumstances of the two men’s travel, nor information about their legal representation.
