Tag: grcec
Macedonia 04.11.24 | 21:31

Police officers were helping a major Skopje drug gang avoid raids

Two retired police officers were detained today under the suspicion that they were giving information to the powerful Grcec drug gang and helping its bosses avoid arrests. The group famously evaded a large scale police raid in 2021 and its top members fled to Dubai and other destinations abroad. The...
Macedonia 07.04.24 | 21:29

Reports that a major Skopje Albanian drug clan leader was arrested in Dubai

TV21 is reporting that Shevalj Muaremi, head of the notorious Grcec drug clan that operates out of Macedonia, was arrested in Dubai. An arrest warrant was issued for Muaremi a month ago. It was widely reported that he is living in Dubai, after a spectacularly failed police raid on the village of Grcec,...
Macedonia 27.02.24 | 18:24

Albanian drug gang warfare heats up ahead of the elections

Another round in the brutal conflict between Albanian drug gangs in Macedonia took place yesterday, when Zeljkif Tusha was killed near the village of Blace, on the border with Kosovo. At the same time, three men set fire to the Baron cafe, in Skopje’s often lawless Cair district, which is a well...
Macedonia 30.08.23 | 20:28

Prosecutors preparing charges against an arrested top member of the Grcec narco mafia

State prosecutors say that they are preparing charges against a rare catch – an alleged top member of the Grcec narco mafia. Muaremi Iljaz is reportedly a major drug boss from the village close to Skopje which recently became a no-go zone and whose gangs surpassed other more established branches...
Macedonia 16.04.23 | 13:28

Drug runner tried to flee the police with a kilo of marijuana

Skopje prosecutors filed charges against a 24 year old man from the lawless, majority Albanian village of Grcec, who was caught carrying 1.2 kilograms of marijuana. The man tried to flee the police and threw the drugs out of his car during a high speed chase on the Skopje ring-road. He eventually admitted...
Macedonia 08.04.23 | 21:34

Locals from the village of Grcec caused serious damage to the regional energy grip

EVN Macedonia informs that its teams sent to reconnect the village of Grcec near Skopje to the power grid found that serious damage was caused by the locals, who tried to reconnect to the grid by themselves. Grcec is notorious as the base for Albanian drug gangs and is becoming a no-go zone for Macedonian...
Macedonia 08.04.23 | 08:56

No-go zone near Skopje left without electricity

The often lawless village of Grcec near Skopje has been left without electricity for two days – the result of the extremely low bill collection rate. Villagers from the area that became notorious as a base for international drug gangs complain that EVN Macedonia is reducing supply and is citing...
Macedonia 31.03.21 | 20:51

Police reveals the names of the drug gang leaders who were tipped off before last week’s raids and fled

The Interior Ministry today published the names of six suspected drug runners who fled before the major raids carried out in and around Skopje last week. Meanwhile, it’s being reported that police officers are being questioned in search to find the leak of the information. The police raided locations...
Macedonia 31.03.21 | 14:30

We are statisticians, not policemen: Simovski doesn’t know if anyone of the Grcec drug gang was a registered census worker

We are statisticians not policemen, to have knowledge if any of the registered census workers are involved in crime, SSO chief Apostol Simovski told Plusinfo, after yesterday the spokesperson of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, Dimce Arsovski pointed out that one of the census workers in Saraj was arrested...
Macedonia 30.03.21 | 22:33

One of the suspects arrested in last week’s major drug raids was a registered census worker

VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Dimitar Arsovski revealed that one of the suspected drug runners arrested last week in a series of raids in and aroud Skopje was a registered census worker. This is a major scandal and the head of the State Statistics Bureau Apostol Simovski needs to resign over this. Was there no...
Macedonia 29.03.21 | 10:04

Zaev and Spasovski to say what agreements were discussed with the drug bosses from Grcec and Aracinovo

Three days after photos of Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s brother, Vice Zaev, sitting on the table with the drug bosses from Grcec and Aracinovo appeared in public, the government is silent, and the opposition is seeking answers. Three days of silence by Spasovski...
Macedonia 28.03.21 | 20:57

President Pendarovski claims he doesn’t know the head of the Grcec drug gang – says he just took a picture with him for election purposes

President Stevo Pendarovski insisted that he has no actual relationship with drug runners from the village of Grcec near Skopje, after pictures of him with the gang leaders surfaced. Members of the gang were arrested in a large scale operation earlier this week, but the bosses fled – apparently...
Macedonia 25.03.21 | 13:05

Large drug raid in Skopje nets 21 suspects from the Albanian mafia

The police detained 21 suspects in the large raid against an Albanian drug gang in the village of Grcec, near Skopje, and several other locations in the capital. Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska said that the group was followed for a year, but that an investigation of its finances was not conducted, because...
Macedonia 25.03.21 | 10:45

Raid against a drug gang in Skopje

Police officers have raided the village of Grcec and the area of Gazi Baba in Skopje, in a move against a faction of the Albanian drug mafia. So far over 20 people were arrested, the Interior Ministry informed. The operation is on-going.
Macedonia 07.12.19 | 20:22

Major police raid in Skopje, a dozen suspected members of an Albanian drug gang were arrested

A large police raid was carried out today in three dozen locations across Skopje, mainly in ethnic Albanian districts such as Aracinovo, Grcec, Cair, Butel, but also in downtown areas. The police informed that it has seized guns, rifles, bullet proof vests, ammunition, vehicles, as well as drugs. A dozen...

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