Investigations

19/10/2015

The Mayor’s Hidden Property

Sinisa Mali, the powerful mayor of the Serbian capital of Belgrade and a close associate of Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, is the director of two offshore companies that own 19 resort apartments worth about US$ 6.1 million on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, reporters for the Organized Crime and […]
07/09/2015

New Videos Show Crime Boss Meeting Top Serbian Police

Balkan drug gang boss Rodoljub Radulovic has met nine times with officials of the Serbian Ministry of Police, according to intelligence videos obtained by KRIK. By Stevan Dojčinović Two of the meetings were with Ivica Dacic, who previously served as prime minister and minister of police, and Ivica Toncev, his […]
29/07/2015

Privatization Agency Official in Deal with Šarić Associates

A bankrupt company owned by accused drug lord Darko Šarić’ s gang that had been frozen by the state has been quietly transferred to a company owned-in-part by the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Privatization Agency. By: Bojana Jovanović Trgopromet, a company majority owned by chairman Muamer […]
11/02/2014

Serbia: Crime Figure Linked to Trade Group

By Stevan Dojčinović and Jelena Vasić The chairwoman of Serbia’s influential gambling trade association has been an employee and director for businesses owned by Serbian crime figure Andrija Draskovic for at least the past 17 years. Jakta, the trade group, has been aggressively working with government officials to shape gaming […]
01/07/2013

Serbian PM was Warned of Tončev’s Mafia Ties

By Stevan Dojčinović and Bojana Jovanović Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić’s national security advisor has maintained contact with major organized crime figures since before 2008 when he entered government. An internal government intelligence report shows that Ivica Toncev’s ties to organized crime were known to the prime minister. Yet, despite […]

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