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		</div><p>Law enforcement officers in Bosnia have arrested 23 people suspected of belonging to a “global drug kingpin’s inner circle” in a crackdown on criminal networks controlling much of Europe’s cocaine trade, authorities said on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Those detained include police and security officials.</p>
<p>Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, and Bosnian officials said the suspects were arrested on Monday as security forces searched their homes and other locations.</p>
<figure id="attachment_182017" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-182017" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/7E6A7839-6C15-40BF-BC4D-6459F158B254.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-182017" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-182017" class="wp-caption-text">Police seized guns, money, cars, laptops and other evidence during the raids</figcaption></figure>
<p>They are suspected of drug trafficking, money laundering and other organised crime offences, officials said.</p>
<p>Europol said in a statement: “Among the 23 persons arrested yesterday are not only accomplices, but also corrupt officials identified as facilitators of the network’s criminal activities.”</p>
<p>The 23 are suspected of being part of the “inner circle” of a drug kingpin arrested in 2022 and sentenced to seven years in prison a year later in the Netherlands, it said.</p>
<p>Police seized guns, money, cars, laptops and other evidence during the raids.</p>
<p>Bosnian authorities had previously arrested two other people and seized 55,000 euros (£47,400), eight firearms, 11 police radios and money-laundering documentation, Europol said.</p>
<p>It said Monday’s arrests are “another milestone” in the fight against the alliance of criminal networks.</p>
<p>Agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration and FBI also participated in the operation, it said.</p>
<p>In Bosnia, state security agency SIPA said authorities temporarily froze bank accounts belonging to the suspects and halted any financial transactions.</p>
<p>It said evidence against the group includes encrypted phone conversations.</p>
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