NEW YORK — Three people have been arrested in a plot to bribe a federal juror in the upcoming case of Goran Gogic, a former heavyweight boxer accused of playing a key role in a massive international cocaine trafficking ring, prosecutors revealed.

The trial, set to start in Brooklyn Federal Court on Monday, was put on hold, with the entire jury dismissed — after U.S. Attorney Francisco Navarro told Judge Joan Azrack Monday someone approached a juror and offered a $100,000 bribe to deliver a not-guilty verdict in the case.

Navarro said the FBI arrested three people in connection with the bribe, and that the conspirators appeared to have gotten their hands on a jury list and other information.

“The entire jury needs to be dismissed,” Navarro said. He asked for a anonymous, sequestered jury to take its place. Azrack ordered a status conference in 30 days.

Goran Gogic took off his boxing gloves for good in 2012, wrapping up a decadelong, 21-4-2 career where he knocked out 14 opponents and was knocked out twice in turn.

Gogic’s lawyer, Joseph Corozzo, agreed to the judge’s order and postponement, saying, “We’re just finding out about this this morning.”

Outside the courtroom, when asked if his client had anything to do with the alleged bribe, he said, “The government’s investigating.”

“I’m just extremely disappointed,” he said. “We thought we had a fair and impartial jury.”

Gogic is accused of being a “critical link” in the drug trafficking chain, coordinating between cocaine suppliers in Colombia, cargo ship crew members who transported tons of the drug and port workers in Europe and the United States.

Authorities in the U.S. made massive seizures as they built the case — more than 1,400 kilos at the Port of New York and New Jersey on Feb. 27, 2019; more than 500 kilos at the Port of Philadelphia on March 18, 2019; and nearly 18,000 kilos at the Port of Philadelphia on June 19, 2019, worth more than $1 billion, in what was described as one of the largest cocaine seizures in U.S. history.

The feds had planned to use messages between Gogic and his co-conspirators as evidence.

Azrack put limits on which messages the government can use, though, only allowing messages that can be independently corroborated by witness testimony.

Gogic remains locked up in MDC Brooklyn, and he’s slated to return to court Dec. 17.

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