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The Belgrade Court of Appeal sentenced Darko Šarić to 15 years in prison for being the organizer of a group accused of smuggling a total of 5.7 tons of cocaine from South America to Western Europe during 2008 and 2009.
Goran Soković, who is a fugitive and was tried in absentia, was sentenced to the same prison term, according to the decision of the Court of Appeals published on its website.
The Court of Appeals confirmed the sentences of the first instance verdict, although it modified the classification of the crime, while the sentences of the other defendants were reduced or slightly increased for the most part.
Saric has been in detention since he surrendered to Serbian authorities on March 18, 2014 and had previously been on the run for five and a half years.
In delving into the decision on Saric’s sentence, the court declared that it was an extenuating circumstance for him to be a family man, but that it considered as an aggravating circumstance that it was “a criminal activity through which an organization was carried out to planetary level. found in large amounts of cocaine. “
He also had Saric’s previous life in mind, but that was not taken into account in sentencing.
– Taking into account the importance of the aggravating circumstances that he found on the part of this defendant, the mitigating factors could not be of such importance that they would lead to a sentence less than the maximum threatened by law, and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison – he said the Court of Appeals. .
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