The Bosnian Serb, Zoran Jaksic, who is one of the leading figures of the global criminal group "America," was arrested in Peru. Jaksic was arrested in the Peruvian border city Tumbes, when he tried to enter Ecuador in July. According to officials, the group “America” maintained a distribution of cocaine from Peru via Argentina to the Netherlands and Belgium. Authorities suspect that the criminal organization smuggled hundred tons of drugs, such as liquid cocaine in wine bottles that were shipped from Argentina wine province of San Juan to Rotterdam and Antwerp. 

In November 2013 the Italian Police arrested Zoran Jaksic, and court sentenced him to 10 years in prison for organizing a 10 kilograms cocaine shipment on the cruise ship MSC Armonia. Implicated in the cruise ship smuggling operation was the 28-year old MSC crew member Dejan Ivanovic. He was instructed to deliver the shipment in a hotel in Venice, where he was arrested and later sentenced to 10 years. The Newspaper Blic says that it’s unclear how Jaksic, got out of prison in Italy, long before the expiration of the imposed sentence and ended in South America.

Peru is investigating the connections of Jaksic in the Peruvian drug world which is currently one of the biggest exporters of cocaine. Jaksic did business with Gerald Oropeza López, the Peruvian kingpin who is also suspected to have links with the Irish Kinahan group and the Mexican Sinaloa cartel.

Serbs and Montenegrins have been active during the past decade in cocaine smuggling from South America to Europe. Darko Saric associated with smuggling 2.8 tons of cocaine seized on a ship in 2009 near Montevideo was sentenced to twenty years.