Bosnia Arrests Cocaine Smuggling Suspect

Selma Hecimovic, spokeswoman for the Bosnian Prosecutor's Office, told reporters that another two men were taken into custody together with Zaja, the brothers Petar and Ante Cosic from Tomislavgrad, Bosnia.

The arrest warrant was issued by the Bosnian Prosecutor's Office based on an investigation being carried out by the police forces of five countries.

"We are talking about international cocaine smuggling, a shipment seized in Spain," said Hecimovic.

After the arrest, the police in Mostar said Zaja was arrested on a warrant issued in Croatia, in cooperation with the police of the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska.

Zaja was arrested in the morning on an order of the Bosnian State Prosecutor's Office as part of an investigation being carried out by the Interior Ministry of Bosnia's Serb entity in cooperation with Croatia's authorities, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton Interior Ministry spokesman Srecko Bosnjak said this morning.

However, Hecimovic said Zaja's arrest was not related to the Croatian warrant. In Croatia Zaja was convicted to three years' imprisonment and is also wanted by the Zagreb County Court for alleged attempted murder in 1991.