Slovak Police Bust International Drug Ring, Arrest 13 in 'Operation Urus'

Slovak elite police have dismantled a major international criminal organization responsible for smuggling large quantities of illegal drugs, arresting 13 people in an operation codenamed Urus. Officers from ÚBOK — Slovakia's specialized anti-organized crime unit — carried out the arrests over a weekend and the days that followed, detaining 13 suspects in total. Nine of those arrested have already been formally charged with founding a criminal organization and drug trafficking. The operation targeted a network that had been moving significant volumes of banned substances across borders. Drug trafficking investigations of this scale are handled by ÚBOK, a dedicated unit within the Slovak Police Corps tasked with combating organized crime and other serious criminal activity. Successful dismantling of an international smuggling ring of this size represents a significant blow to cross-border drug distribution networks operating in or through Slovakia.