Belgrade Cocaine Indictment: 60 Gold Ducats, 54,115 Euros

Belgrade’s Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office indicted three suspects on September 23, three and a half months after their arrest on June 3. The indictment has been submitted to the Higher Court in Belgrade for confirmation.

The three defendants are Milos G. (27), Damir L. (23) and Jovana K. (23). They are accused of jointly selling, transporting and holding cocaine and cannabis without authorization in Belgrade and Novi Sad between July 2025 and June 3, 2026. The charge is unauthorized production and distribution of narcotics committed as part of a group, under Article 246, paragraph 3, in connection with paragraph 1, of the Criminal Code, which carries a prison sentence of five to fifteen years.

According to the prosecution, Milos G. ran the group: he supplied the money, found buyers, planned the procurement and transport of the drugs and arranged a place to store them. On his instructions, Damir L. stored, repackaged and resold the cocaine. Jovana K. kept part of the supply at a rented apartment, where she weighed it and prepared it for sale.

The timeline set out by prosecutors begins on March 26, 2026, when Milos G. brought cocaine to Damir L. and hid it in a compartment built into a Volkswagen Golf 5, instructing him to sell it in Novi Sad. The next day, March 27, at around 11:20 a.m., Damir L. sold and handed over 98.98 grams of cocaine to a buyer identified only by the initials A.R. in Novi Sad. That buyer was later stopped near the Novi Sad Fair and now faces a separate case before the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Novi Sad.

The next link in the chain came on April 2, when Jovana K. picked up cocaine from Damir L. in Belgrade and took it to a rented apartment in Sremcica to repackage it. Police raided the apartment the following day. Jovana K. threw 14 bags containing 894.91 grams of cocaine out of a window, and they were found on the ground outside the building. Officers also found 49.55 grams of cannabis and two digital scales inside the apartment.

In total, 993.89 grams of cocaine and 49.55 grams of cannabis were temporarily seized from the three suspects. A search of Milos G. turned up 414,000 dinars, 48,615 euros and 60 gold ducats bearing the likeness of Franz Joseph, minted in 1915. A search of Damir L. turned up 5,500 euros.

Prosecutors have asked the court to keep all three suspects in detention over the risk they would reoffend, and to hold Damir L. also over the risk of flight. They have also proposed the permanent confiscation of the cash, the ducats, an iPhone 15 and an iPhone 14, the two scales and the Golf 5, along with an order for the defendants to cover the costs of the proceedings.