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NEW: A Peruvian prison held three leaders in major organized crime groups — including the Sinaloa Cartel and #GroupAmerica, a Serbian outfit w/ ties to intelligence agencies.

In 2021, they planned a jailbreak, the details of which we reveal today ⛏️ 🕳️ occrp.org/en/investigati…
What is Group America?

The global operations of this drug-trafficking group — which has origins in New York organized crime and rumored ties to the CIA — was exposed by OCCRP in 2020.

Its second-in-command, Zoran Jakšić, was arrested in Peru in 2016. occrp.org/en/group-ameri…
Jakšić was imprisoned w/ fellow drug barons from Serbia, Mexico, Peru, and Colombia.

It is unclear whether all four men knew each other beforehand.

But how Jakšić and the others ended up in the same prisons at the same time is a story of cunning and criminal serendipity. Image
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NEW: Meet #GroupAmerica, one of the most pervasive and violent drug-trafficking gangs you’ve never heard of.

Some say its name stems from rumored ties between the gang's leaders and the US government — maybe even the CIA. 1/
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In the 1980s, a Serb took control of the Westies, a New York Irish-American gang that became Group America.

Decades later, police around the world are impressed by the gang's global scope — and stunned that it remains active. 2/
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Unlike the cartels that control the whole cocaine supply chain, Group America specializes in being the middleman between sellers in Europe and producers in South America — where the gang’s second-in-command may be in prison for life. 3/
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