Five in court as police smash drug trafficking ring

Drugs haul uncovered by police. Photo: Malta Police

Four men and a woman have been arrested charged with importing and trafficking drugs.

Following weeks of investigation, police stopped a car car in Żabbar, where seven kilograms of cocaine were found.

Police raided a house in Żabbar and another two houses in Marsascala, where they found more cocaine as well as six kilograms of cannabis resin, drug-related equipment, a cash counting machine, counterfeit documents and ammunition.

The five arrested, all foreigners, are Nikola Vujakovic, 36 and Sara Lerinc, 22 from Serbia, Salvatore Rogazione, 37, an Italian, Aleksander Vujakovic, 34 from Croatia and Goran Davkovski, 54 of Macedonia.

The arrested persons are Nikola Vujakovic, 36 and Sara Lerinc, 22 from Serbia, Salvatore Rogazione, 37, an Italian, Aleksander Vujakovic, 34 from Croatia and Goran Davkovski, 54 of Macedonia.