public records<\/a> of Svetlana Ra\u017enatovi\u0107, a turbo folk legend and wife of notorious mobster Zeljko\u201cArkan\u201d Ra\u017enatovi\u0107.<\/p>\nSvetlana Ra\u017enatovi\u0107, the turbo-folk legend adored by fans around the Balkans, has lived at the intersection of Serbian politics, sports, pop-culture and criminal life for nearly two decades. She rose to fame at just 15 years old, married a much older mobster who became the infamous accused war criminal known as Arkan, took over a Serbian football club and ultimately wound up under house arrest because of the way she ran it.<\/p>\n
Ceca\u2019s life story is a fascinating and crucial part of Serbian history. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project has chronicled that life, from her works of charity, most famous television appearances and even allegations she uses threats, intimidation and violence to get what she wants. Compiling thousands of pages of court reports, property records, business registry documents in Cyprus, Belgrade and elsewhere, reporters have created a factual database to document a life long surrounded by lure and rumor.<\/p>\n
According to court records, Ceca is the director of Obili\u0107 Football Club, once an obscure club that gained first league status after her husband took it over. Ceca took over after his death.\u00a0 In 2003, she was arrested and served four months in prison during Operation Saber, the wholesale crackdown on organized crime following the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran \u0110in\u0111i\u0107. Police found incriminating documents in her Belgrade villa and she was eventually indicted in 2011 with embezzling millions of euros from the club in player transfers. Police also found in the villa a cache of weapons and other articles \u2013 88 in all. Among the objects listed on the official registry of seized property were guns, bullets, binoculars and a pair of thumb handcuffs. She was charged and convicted as well. After time served, she was held under house arrest.<\/p>\n
Records show she owns a villa in Cypress along with the one in Belgrade, the latter being used as collateral for a \u20ac1.5 million judgment following her conviction. Court records show that the Belgrade house is worth \u20ac500,000.<\/p>\n
The list of associates and business partners connected to Ceca is diverse and offers insight into her role in society. Ivica Da\u010di\u0107, the Minister of Interior, is a longtime friend and supporter, as are several nationalist politicians who operated with Arkan\u2019s feared paramilitary group, the Tigers. She is a also a partner \u2013 and co-defendant \u2013 with former football player and brother-in-law Predrag Ocokolji\u0107, and court documents show \u00a0Ocokolji\u0107 threatened to shoot another man in the stomach if he didn\u2019t turn control of a football club Mladi Proleter over to Ceca.<\/p>\n
“You don’t know who is behind me, which people and what institutions,\u2019\u2019 Ceca told football club director Aleksandar Olarevi\u0107, in 2007. \u201cYou’re stealing the club from my orphans. If Arkan is alive, you probably wouldn’t do that.” Olarevi\u0107 later dropped the charges. \u00a0(See http:\/\/www.reportingproject.net\/football\/sub_sersidepers.html<\/a>)<\/p>\nCeca\u2019s life has been the subject of lore throughout the Balkans. OCCRP\u2019s detailed investigation and documents sort out fact from fiction.<\/p>\n
The OCCRP People of Interest project looks at interesting people in the news and provides detailed public records and information to help sort rumor from fact.\u00a0 Inclusion in the People of Interest project does not imply criminality.<\/p>\n
CIN-Serbia researched this dossier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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