A Scandal, a Murder, and a Mystery in Bulgaria

https://www.occrp.org/en/28-ccwatch...andal-a-murder-and-a-mystery-in-bulgaria

In 2018 there were 29 murders related to organized crime in Serbia. That´s a record.

Actually 36. I can write them all down if anyone is interested.Far from record,record was back in 1990's.

I agree the days of Arkan were worse.

Nonetheless a lot is going on in your country.

https://www.balkaneu.com/record-high-mafia-murders-in-serbia/

I agree, but its mostly war between Skaljarski & Kavacki clan, the strongest group here in Belgrade is untouched,only 1 member was murdered back in 2016.

What is the strongest clan in BG bro?

Check your PM

Serbia: a huge strike against the underworld

The Serbian police launched a big operation aimed at the arrest of several figures of the local underworld. 150 people were arrested and searches were carried out during a so-called "preventive" operation shortly before the next elections.

Among the arrestees:

Nebojsa "Stojke" Stojkovic: considered to be the leader of the "Rakovski" clan, he was wounded by bullets in August 2017 in Barcelona. He has already been convicted in Serbia for drug trafficking, robbery, illegal possession of arms and extortion;

Zvonko Mateovic: former bodyguard of "warlord" Zeljko "Arkan" Raznatovic (he was in his company during his murder at the hotel "Interkontinental" on 15 January 2000 and was wounded). He is known for extortion. His brother was shot dead in 2004, may be in his place;

Vladimir Karan: suspected of drug trafficking, he has never been sentenced for this kind of case. He was targeted several times by attempted murder, particularly in the explosion of his car bomb in 2015;

Vladimir "the Japanese" Jovanovic: Arrested several years ago in Spain, he was extradited to Serbia and sentenced for the extortion of a taxi company and the kidnapping of a girl. Long known as "Satan", he has since taken the nickname "Vlada Japanac". He would be a member of the "Zemun clan";

Veselin "Vesko" Vukotić: sentenced in Novi Sad for illegal possession of firearms and minor injuries. He is claimed by Montenegro for a homicide dating from 1997 and was sentenced in Brussels to life imprisonment for the murder of an Albanian activist in 1990. He was arrested in 2006 at Madrid airport with a false passport ;

Ljubiša Lindo Čombe: considered one of the leading drug traffickers in Belgrade. Arrested several times for heroin and cocaine trafficking, he has always managed to avoid convictions;

Hadži Zoran Jovanović, known as "Tebra": sentenced to 5 years in prison in Belgium for trafficking more than 200 kilos of cocaine. Also known in the Netherlands, he is a member of the Hells Angels;

Petar Guzijan: eldest son of Jovana Guzijana Cunera, a criminal boss killed in the early 2000s. Arrested because he was accused of being a member of the "new Zemun clan", he was acquitted;

Zoran "Tesha" Tešić: accused of attempted murder against the President of the Republican Party, he was sentenced in 2013 to 7 years in prison but acquitted in 2018 by the Belgrade Court of Appeal.

However, the police are still searching for Miljan Vukovic, the leader of the Hells Angels of Serbia. He is the son of Vuk Vukovic, a former casino owner and considered a close relative of warlord Zeljko "Arkan" Raznatovic (shot in 2000). Miljan Vukovic is also believed to have played the intermediary between some members of the movement of "Pink Panthers" (jewel thieves) and buyers in the Middle East.

Most of them are released already.

One man was killed in another car bomb in the center of Podgorica. According to the Montenegrin media, it was about Nikola Cupic. It is the latest episode in the war between the Skaljarski and Kavacki clans, which claimed around thirty lives in Montenegro and Serbia since 2014.

He was close to Kavacki clan , he was a member of Cetinjski clan.

Strax did you know Arkan escaped from Bijlmerbajes prison in Amsterdam in 1981. His men threw a pistol and rope over the wall and they escaped.
Prior to that he also escaped with italian gangster Carlo Fabiani a prison in Verviers. In a court in Stockholm the two were later freed by Kostovski.

Yes, it was in may 1981, but he was arrested shorty after that in June in Germany. But i never heard of Carlo Fabiani ? Who was he ? Was he affiliated with Sicilian mafia ?

No idea but in those early years of Arkan he was one of his most loyal "collaborators". Raznatovic learns Italian and tightens ties that will come in handy in the nineties, when from the Balkans in the chaos arrive in Italy lots of weapons that end up in the hands of the mafia clans.
Another Italian friend was the lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano. When the war in Bosnia ended in 1995, Di Stefano continued his entrepreneurial rise alongside Arkan, with whom he also shared his passion for football. The former head of the Ultras of Red Star buys a small team of the capital, the Obilic, in partnership with the Anglo-Italian lawyer, who in a few years wins the championship and participates in the Champion's League.

Serbia: Belgrade would be a hub for European cocaine trafficking
By Laurent Rouy Broadcasting: Sunday, March 31, 2019

According to some analysts, the Serbian capital is the hub of European cocaine trafficking. A very recent case highlights Serbia from the perspective of this drug trafficking.

From our correspondent in Belgrade

It all starts with a record cocaine seizure in Romania. It was five days ago in the Danube Delta, near the Black Sea. In a capsized boat, the police discovered more than a ton of almost pure cocaine coming directly from Colombia, a priori. The value of the seizure is around 300 million euros. Police had been on alert after last week's discovery of a one-kilogram pack of pure cocaine dropped from a truck. During the operation, the Romanian police arrested two Serb nationals. For the Romanian police, the seizure is completely unusual, as is the rest of the case, and suspicions immediately turn to the neighbor of the west, Serbia.

It is obvious that the quantity seized was not destined for the Romanian market and that Romania played here only the role of a transit country towards Western Europe. And there are several reasons why investigators are interested in the Serb ramifications of the case.

First, because this seizure by its importance reminds of another very old: in 2009, the Colombian police had seized 5.7 tons of cocaine on a sailboat in the Atlantic. This record seizure led to the arrest of the Serbian boss Darko Saric, currently in prison, to whom this cargo was destined. It was at this time that we began to think that the Serbs played at least a European role in the traffic.

Serbo-Montenegrin Fight

The other notable event is the very suspicious death a few days ago of a Serbian national in Medellin, the former stronghold of Pablo Escobar. And this Serbian is not anyone: it is a certain David Vidakovic, brother of Milos Vidakovic, a mobster assassinated in 2013 in Budva in Montenegro. But the assassination of Budva went hand in hand with another execution, this time in Belgrade in 2013, that of Nikola Bojovic, brother of the leader of the clan of Zemun, the suburbs of Belgrade.

Milos Vidakovic was executed in 2013, but his brother died these days in Colombia. For five years, there have been 98 Mafia-style killings in Serbia and Montenegro, and the reason for this is the struggle between the Serbian and Montenegrin clans for the control of the European cocaine trade. Investigations have already shown that Serbs or Montenegrins were supplying Holland, which is the hub of traffic for northern Europe.

To return to the seizure made in Romania last week, it will take a little before knowing the sponsors and recipients. But for local experts in organized crime networks, there is no doubt that the authorizing officer of the operation is to be found in Belgrade.

http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20190331-serbie-belgrade-trafic-cocaine-europeen?ref=tw

It's possible that we'll be seeing more widespread involvement from the Serbian and Montenegrin clans in the cocaine business again. After the Serbian and Montenegrin networks got hit hard we were seeing the Albanians making noise in cocaine trafficking. Seems like law enforcement shifted their focus on the Albanian clans (a lot of them are getting busted, especially in the UK) so it wouldn't surprise me if other two major types of Balkan OC are gaining prominence again. Some things never die out.

Albanians are huge in heroin and weed trade , not so much in cocaine trade. Its very well known here who is behind this 300 million cocaine seizure , we are going to see some murders soon.

They've been getting more involved in cocaine the last couple of years. In Antwerp there's for instance one Albanian network involved in importing cocaine and there's plenty of cocaine dealing by Albanian gangs in London as well as reported activity in some Dutch and German cities. Law enforcement is cracking down on them hard though. They're getting nicked by the dozens.

Dozens arrested in swoop on Albanian mafia in France, Belgium and Netherlands
APRIL 5, 2019 18:58 EDITOR MOB WATCH

More than sixty people have been arrested during a large-scale operation involving Belgian French and Dutch police against a network of Albanian drug traffickers.

More than 8,200 cannabis plants were seized in Belgium and Revin in northern France. In total, fifteen plantations were dismantled, Europol said in a statement.

The wave of searches was carried out on between Wednesday and Friday by 645 police officers and gendarmes from Belgium , France and the Netherlands, aimed at “An Albanian polycriminal organization”.

According to Europol, the organisation is “active in particular in the large-scale production of cannabis, cocaine trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, false documents and money laundering”.

The main suspects were arrested in Brussels, Liège and Amsterdam, but the network also has branches in France, as well as in Italy and England. The organisation laundered the proceeds if criminal actions “by investing in trade and buying real estate in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe”.

Among those who were imprisoned, some were subject to European arrest warrants issued by the Italian, British or Serbian judicial authorities.

The investigation, adds the prosecutor, started with the dismantling of a cannabis plantation in April 2018 in Harmiginies in the Belgian region of Mons. The information gathered in the process led back to the main figures of the network.

According to Europol, the gang ran a dozen marijuana plantations and sold the drugs in Belgium and northern France., where they have also been charged with human trafficking.

During searches, luxury cars, jewellery, dozens of mobile phones, 200 grams of cocaine and nearly € 90,000 were also seized.

HIT SQUAD Ex-Sheffield Wednesday and Juventus star Darko Kovacevic cheats death after being shot at by two assassins in Smart Car

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/10695152/sheffield-wednesday-kovacic-shot-assassins/

https://dosja.al/video-ekskluzive-v...snajperi-godet-njehere-dhe-e-le-pertoke/

Albanian businessman killed by sniper broad day

https://www.koha.net/kronike/201580/shperthim-ne-zyre-plagoset-kryebashkiaku-i-lushnjes/

Mayor of Lushnje ( Albania ) attacked by grenade in his office, the accident happened after an argument with his ex-driver who pulled the grenade out of his pocket and threw it in the mayor's office leaving the mayor injured and the mayor's secretary seriously injured. 31 December 2019

Wow..

The Serbian press launches a sensational indiscretion regarding the shooting against Darko Kovacevic , the former Juventus and Lazio striker who suffered a shooting near his home on 7 January. The instigator of the ambush would be Raul Bravo, Kovacevic's former teammate in Olympiacos: a hypothesis reinforced by the Telegraaf , which talks about the link between the story and the betting round that would have led to the arrest of 11 people, including the former Real Madrid defender. Kovacevic would have learned of some details about buying and selling matches.

At around 7 pm last night, in a well-known Greek tavern in Athens, Greece, Stevan Stamatovic (43) and Igor Dedovic (43) were shot dead in front of wives and children who were in their company while they were having dinner.
Four masked assailants participated in the liquidation, and they didn't care about the fact that three children, aged 6 to 10, were sitting at the table at the time of the attack.
Igor Dedovic was one of the leaders of the Skaljari Clan of Montenegro. Stamatovic was a fugitive, sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Mafia boss
FLOWN IN FROM MONTENEGRO
with 27 bullets delivered to MHH
Several police cars guard the entrance to the MHH

Articleby: ALEXANDER HÄNJES
published on 02/13/2020 - 10:52 a.m.
Hanover - Top security level at the Hannover Medical School (MHH)! Police patrol the corridors with submachine guns. The intensive care unit is like a high-security wing.

What's going on in Hanover's most famous clinic? "The police do not provide any further information on the protection of personal rights," said police spokesman Philipp Hasse.

For safety reasons, the clinic is guarded with submachine guns

BILD knows: A high-ranking Mafia member from Montenegro was flown to Hanover last week. The man was taken from Langenhagen airport to the MHH under the highest security precautions and accompanied by a special task force.

He was previously in a Montenegrin hospital and is said to have 27 bullets in his arms and legs. He hopes for better care in Hanover.

According to BILD information, the treatment costs of several thousand euros are borne by the injured person because he has no health insurance in Germany.

In Montenegro there are regular shootings by the hostile Skaljari and Kavac clans. But the mafiosi are also active in Germany. In May 2019, two Montenegrin clan members were executed in Brandenburg.

Montenegrin Police Bust Cigarette Smuggling Ring

https://www.occrp.org/ru/daily/12928-montenegrin-police-bust-cigarette-smuggling-ring

Hey Strax, do you know which clans control the cigarette trade over there?

Well its mostly 2 clans from Montenegro , its either Skaljarski or Kavacki. Since they started their war , all other powerful criminals groups chose a side , either Skaljarski or Kavacki , even most powerful groups from Belgrade sided with one side. So almost everything is controlled by them

Thanks and the president Milo Đukanović is tied to Skaljarski or Kavacki?

Haha funny how u already know he is tied to someone, well Milo Đukanović was himself involved in cigarette smuggling with Camorra back in 90s. He is tied to Kavacki, almost all members of Skaljarski are killed or in prison,just this year they killed 4 key people that were hiding in Greece , while no one from Kavacki is in prison. Serbian president and almost whole state are also tied to Kavacki. Skaljarski made a mistake and killed Sale Mutavi back in 2016, he was working for secret services and was very close to president, since then Serbia sided with Kavacki , 2 months ago presidents son was photographed with them having lunch