All media in the Serbian language today reported about the arrest of 10 people in Kosovo and the US in a joint action by the Kosovo Police and the American DEA Service. The media also reported that the Basic Court in Pristina released Naser Kelmendi while in trial, who was charged with murder and organized crime.

Kosovo police have announced that in a joint operation with the US DEA service have arrested 10 people in Kosovo and New York, suspected of organized crime and narcotics trafficking.

"The Department of Drug Trafficking in cooperation with the DEA conducted three police operations. The investigation was conducted in cooperation with US officials in parallel in two countries, two operations were carried out in Kosovo, in the region of Peja and one in New York," it was said in the statement of the Kosovo Police.

The operations led to the arrest of four people in Kosovo and six in the United States.

Kelmendi released from custody

"The decision of the Basic Court to release Kelmendi from custody is final and no appeal can be made," wrote Kelmendi’s lawyer Besnik Berisha on social networks, RTS reported.

Later, Berisha told Radio Free Europe that his client does not have to be at all times in Kosovo, but has to respond to every court summons to the hearing.

Naser Kelmendi is considered the leader of an organized criminal group and has been on the US "blacklist" for years. He has been in custody since May 2013 when he was arrested by the Interpol warrant. Kelmendi was arrested in Kosovo, when he fled from Bosnia and Herzegovina through Montenegro, and after months of hiding. The prosecution charged him with organized crime, serious murder and the purchase, possession, distribution and unauthorized sale of various types of narcotics. According to him, "the process is mounted in Bosnia and Herzegovina", reported RTS.