Overview

• Montenegrin authorities had sought the suspect under an international arrest warrant since 2021, and Spanish police previously detected him in Barcelona under a false identity.
• An alert on October 10 from Montenegro about an associate traveling from Croatia triggered the joint effort.
• Investigators from Croatia, Montenegro, France, and Spain, working through the ENFAST network, tracked the associate by taxi from Marseille to Barcelona and on to Málaga.
• Officers observed the associate meet the fugitive in Málaga and, after checks, detained the wanted man without incident.
• Montenegro accuses him of murder and membership in a criminal organization, describes him as the leader’s right hand in logistics and evidence concealment, and seeks a sentence of up to 40 years if he is convicted.