For three consecutive weeks, various types of cars, trucks, and small vehicles have been filmed as they pass along a road on the outskirts of Banjska.
In Zubin Potok, the team managed to identify some of the vehicles that were using illegal routes to transport various goods from Serbia to Kosovo.
The road, which is also seen in the footage broadcast on the Kallxo Pernime show on 14.12.2025, is difficult to pass, especially during periods of snow and rain.
Groups that are considered dangerous are once again continuing to dominate smuggling in the northern part of the country.
Members of the groups have been caught time and again by the Kosovo Police carrying out illegal activities.
The images we broadcast tonight also show the time, the vehicles, and the route that various vehicles travel on the outskirts of Banjska, between Leposavic and Zubin Potok.
In the area that Kallxo Pernime's team has been investigating for several weeks, known as "Junak," a mountainous area was being used to smuggle goods from Serbia to Kosovo. The smuggling mainly involved food and textiles.
The team's cameras, set up to monitor the route that would be used, also filmed various vehicles passing along the road towards Serbia and then seen returning to Kosovo.
In some cases, the cameras have even filmed convoys of different cars, not just one or two. In fact, in all the filming that the Kallxo Pernime team has done, the night that had the most smuggling was the night before the mayors in the north of the country were sworn in.
The suspected smugglers used the night as a time that allowed them to leave Serbia more easily and without being identified and return loaded with illegal goods without documentation to Kosovo.
The busiest time was 20:00 – 22:00.
On November 27, 2025, the team's cameras captured the first footage of vehicles using the difficult route to illegally cross into Serbia for smuggling.
The route the smugglers were taking was being worked on by companies contracted by institutions in Kosovo.
But, even though it was being worked on, the road occasionally became difficult to pass for cars that did not have the power to climb to its top, where the team had also set up cameras.
The footage that KALLXO has secured from the past weeks has also been sent to the Kosovo Police. The investigation carried out by the team resulted in arrests on the evening of December 11, 2025. Six people were arrested on suspicion of smuggling goods in the area where the team had placed the cameras.
Regarding this situation, the deputy regional prosecutor in the north, Veton Elshani, said that smugglers mainly used various small and large vehicles to transport goods, mainly food and textiles.
"It is carried as much as that transport vehicle can carry. If it is a pickup truck, it carries food items. If you come across a large jeep with a large roof, then the luggage is mainly with medicines and food. But if we compare it to 2022, the circulation is smaller," said Elshani.
He added that smugglers look at which routes are easiest and most trafficked, conduct surveillance, and then carry out smuggling.
"We have had many cases where we have detained these people, but it does not mean that it has been detained forever. There are still food items, medicines, meat, expensive things," Elshani adds.
According to him, in addition to the two official border points in Brnjak and Jarinje, 64 illegal roads have been identified in the northern part of the country in the past, seven of which are paved and the others are passable.
On the other hand, people who have been arrested by the police for smuggling mainly have criminal pasts.
"We have people we know as part of the group. There were people who were in prison, in detention, they came out and we caught the same ones again. Last night we stopped several people, two of them are still at large. We have also seized goods and textiles. Vehicles have been seized," Elshani added.
"Most of them have a past... because they are repeat offenders," says Elshani.
Elshani concludes by saying that the police are continuing security surveillance but does not deny that there may also be criminal activity committed by various individuals.
"The form of smuggling has changed. The routes exist and therefore must be constantly monitored. The routes are still used, but we are not in control of the border 100%. It is never 100%, but we try to be everywhere. So far we have been quite successful, but it does not mean that we will stop our work - nor the criminals in their tracks," he added.
