{"id":52444,"date":"2023-12-11T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krik.rs\/?p=52444"},"modified":"2024-05-21T16:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:10:46","slug":"leaked-documents-provide-fresh-evidence-about-the-source-of-payment-to-journalists-assassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krik.rs\/en\/leaked-documents-provide-fresh-evidence-about-the-source-of-payment-to-journalists-assassin\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Documents Provide Fresh Evidence About the Source of Payment to Journalist\u2019s Assassin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Prosecutors in the case of a murdered journalist in Croatia suspected a 780,000-euro payment to one of the assassins was payment for the hit, but never established who sent the money. Leaked records reveal the name of the owner of the company behind the payment, and his business connections to the convicted killer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by\u00a0Dragana Peco (OCCRP\/KRIK), Vesna Radojevic (KRIK), and Atanas Tchobanov (BIRD)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2008, a motorbike packed with explosives detonated in a parking lot outside the Zagreb office of Nacional, a weekly magazine known for its sensational headlines and expos\u00e9s of political and business scandals. The scooter had been placed next to a car used by the publication\u2019s founder, Ivo Pukani\u0107. He was killed instantly when it exploded, along with a colleague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later, a Croatian court convicted six men of Pukani\u0107\u2019s murder, sentencing them to a total of 163 years in prison. Prosecutors said organized crime figures from across the Balkans had been involved in planning and executing the assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ivo Pukani\u0107, Photo Antonio Bronic\/PIXSELL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The court found that the \u201ckey middleman\u201d in organizing the murder was Slobodan \u00d0urovi\u0107, a man born in Montenegro but living in Serbia, who Interpol and several other regional police agencies described as a major organized crime figure known in the criminal underworld as \u201cThe Cardinal.\u201d He was jailed for 23 years, but it was never established who ordered and paid for the murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors had alleged that cash from a mysterious 780,000-euro transfer into \u00d0urovi\u0107\u2019s personal bank account in Montenegro had been used to pay some of the assassins, but the money trail seemed to end there. The payment came from a company called General Pioneer Inc., but it had been registered in the British Virgin Islands, whose strict corporate secrecy rules make it difficult to determine the owners of companies. The person behind General Pioneer has remained a mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now, thanks to leaked documents from Cypriot corporate service provider MeritServus, reporters from OCCRP\u2019s partners KRIK in Serbia and BIRD in Bulgaria finally managed to identify the company\u2019s owner: a Bulgarian businessman named Ognian Bozarov.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ivo Pukani\u0107\u2019s car after the explosion that killed him in 2008. Photo: Dalibor Urukalovic\/\/PIXSELL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Reporters found no direct evidence that Bozarov ordered or played any role in the assassination of Pukani\u0107, but the leaked documents \u2014 combined with information gleaned from corporate documents and court records by KRIK reporters \u2014 offer new insights into \u00d0urovi\u0107\u2019s business dealings with Bozarov in the lead-up to the murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Files from the murder trial and corporate records show that Bozarov had employed \u00d0urovi\u0107 for at least a year before the murder through another company he owned, this one registered in Serbia. \u00d0urovi\u0107 left his role at this company, Karizia DOO, three days before Pukani\u0107 was assassinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newly leaked documents also reveal for the first time that General Pioneer paid \u00d0urovi\u0107 255,000 euros five months before the 780,000-euro transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KRIK asked Croatian prosecutors whether they had looked into the ownership of General Pioneer, but the questions went unanswered. It is not clear whether prosecutors were aware of or investigated the earlier 255,000-euro payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a written statement to OCCRP, Bozarov said he \u201cmost certainly did not arrange for [Pukani\u0107\u2019s] murder\u201d and had never threatened or harmed anyone. Bozarov said that any payments made through his companies \u201cwere purely for business purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout his trial, \u00d0urovi\u0107 maintained that the large payment he received was related to a land deal in Belgrade, Serbia\u2019s capital. But the new documents and records obtained by reporters raise questions about whether the criminal\u2019s business dealings with Bozarov made economic sense, and whether the payments to him were actually connected to a legitimate land deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leaked MeritServus files were obtained by the pro-transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets and initially shared with OCCRP and the Guardian. This investigation is part of Cyprus Confidential, a global investigative collaboration led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and Paper Trail Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nAbout the \u2018Cyprus Confidential\u2019 Project\n<\/strong>
\nCyprus Confidential is a global investigation examining Russian influence in Cyprus, and how local service providers helped oligarchs and billionaires structure their wealth over the years preceding the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The project is based on more than 3.6 million documents leaked from six different Cypriot service providers, as well as a Latvian firm.\n\nThe Cypriot firms are DJC Accountants, ConnectedSky, Cypcodirect, MeritServus, MeritKapital, and Kallias and Associates. Additional records came from a Latvian company, Dataset SIA, which sells Cypriot corporate registry documents through a website called i-Cyprus.\n\nThe MeritServus and MeritKapital records were shared with OCCRP, ICIJ and other media outlets by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS). OCCRP has previously reported on these firms, and the current project builds upon this work. ICIJ also shared the leaked records from Cypcodirect, ConnectedSky, i-Cyprus, and Kallias and Associates that were obtained by Paper Trail Media. In the case of Kallias and Associates, the documents were obtained from DDoS who shared them with Paper Trail Media and ICIJ. OCCRP shared the DJC Accountants leaked records with media partners after previously obtaining them via DDoS.\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the Crosshairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pukani\u0107 was not short of enemies. Blunt and unapologetic, he used his extensive network of political, business, and underworld contacts to dig up fodder for the scandalous headlines and pictures he splashed across the pages of Nacional, which he had co-founded in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His colleagues publicly criticized him for his friendly connections with controversial businessmen and criminals, but he also produced major investigative stories about powerful figures. His reports on the wealth of the former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader garnered widespread attention. So did a series of stories on connections between the then-President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovi\u0107, and the controversial Serbian businessman Stanko Suboti\u0107. Pukani\u0107 wrote extensively about Suboti\u0107 and Djukanovi\u0107\u2019s alleged ties to cigarette smuggling. When Italian prosecutors launched a case against Djukanovi\u0107 in 2002, the journalist was one of their witnesses (Djukanovi\u0107 invoked diplomatic immunity to get the charges in Italy dropped.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a first attempt on Pukani\u0107\u2019s life in April 2008, he was given police protection. But despite this, it emerged after his death that he had been surveilled for three months before his killing in 2008, and that the murder had been planned so carefully that a Serbian sniper was waiting on the roof of a neighboring building to shoot him in case the bomb didn\u2019t detonate, or the explosion didn\u2019t kill him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the mastermind of Pukani\u0107\u2019s assassination was never identified, an organized crime figure was tried in Serbia for orchestrating the killing: Sreten Joci\u0107. Known as \u201cJoca Amsterdam\u201d due to his base in the Netherlands, Joci\u0107 is a Serbian drug lord and infamous criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sreten Joci\u0107 and Slobodan \u0110urovi\u0107 (screenshot RTS) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A 2008 Interpol report from Serbia, in coordination with Dutch and French authorities, described \u00d0urovi\u0107 as Joci\u0107\u2019s \u201cright hand,\u201d and said that he managed Joci\u0107\u2019s business and bought companies on his behalf. According to another report from Interpol Montenegro from the same year, \u00d0urovi\u0107 was Joci\u0107\u2019s \u201ckum\u201d (a Slavic expression for a very close relationship) in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serbian prosecutors indicted Joci\u0107 in 2009, alleging that he organized Pukani\u0107\u2019s assassination, but he was eventually acquitted after a judge ruled that the prosecution did not present sufficient evidence of his connection to the murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joci\u0107\u2019s lawyer did not respond to written questions. \u00d0urovi\u0107 did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An ‘Extremely Urgent’ Payment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Joci\u0107\u2019s trial in Serbia, \u00d0urovi\u0107 was pressed about the 780,000 euros he had received in his bank account. He insisted that the money had been paid \u201cby my Bulgarian friends\u201d in exchange for his help filing paperwork to the Belgrade city administration for a land deal. When asked why he was paid such a large sum for a simple task that \u201ceveryone could \u2026 do,\u201d he did not have a clear answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montenegrin anti-money laundering investigators also questioned the explanation for the wire transfers at the time of the trial, and told Croatian investigators that \u00d0urovi\u0107 withdrew 60,000 euros from his Montenegrin account the day after the transfer from General Pioneer. Croatian authorities shared the findings with Serbian counterparts, who later said in an indictment that this cash withdrawal was part of how \u00d0urovi\u0107 paid the other conspirators in the assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Records from the trial and the leaked documents provide additional evidence that \u00d0urovi\u0107 and Bozarov had been working together for many months before Pukani\u0107 was killed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ognian Bozarov (credit: social media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

When police arrested \u00d0urovi\u0107 six days after Pukani\u0107 was killed, they confiscated two phones from him. Although police and prosecutors did not make note of this at the time, KRIK journalists trawling through the old court records found telephone numbers for Bozarov in Bulgaria and Cyprus among \u00d0urovi\u0107\u2019s contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nWho Is Ognian Bozarov?\n<\/strong>
\nThe 76-year-old Bozarov has maintained a relatively low profile, even in his native Bulgaria. One of the few public references to him is found in a 2011 book by Christo Christov, a Bulgarian researcher and journalist. Christov wrote that Bozarov worked for the Communist-era intelligence service during the dictatorship of Todor Zhivkov, who was in power for 35 years until the fall of communism in 1989.\n\nWhile reporters were unable to confirm Bozarov\u2019s connections to the Bulgarian state, U.S. Department of Justice documents show that the Bulgarian embassy in Washington, D.C., came to his aid when he was arrested there in the 1980s for allegedly trying to send computer technology to Bulgaria in violation of export controls. Paperwork shows that the embassy covered the costs of a law firm for Bozarov and another Bulgarian national.\n\nThe charges were eventually dropped, according to U.S. court records, but a Bulgarian member of parliament later questioned who had footed Bozarov\u2019s $250,000 bail.\n\nBozarov did not respond to questions about whether he was in the intelligence service.\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The earliest evidence of \u00d0urovi\u0107 and Bozarov working together comes from November 2007, when \u00d0urovi\u0107 transferred a Serbian company called Karizia to another company ultimately owned by Bozarov for the nominal fee of 500 euros, covering the funds \u00d0urovi\u0107 had injected when setting up Karizia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00d0urovi\u0107 had used the company to apply to the Belgrade Land Development Public Agency for a 99-year lease to a land plot. The award was approved in September 2007, and the contract was signed on November 5, 2007 \u2014 three days after Karizia was transferred to Bozarov\u2019s company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 1, 2007, shortly after transfering Karizia to Bozarov, \u00d0urovi\u0107 signed a contract with General Pioneer to help secure an increase in the area on which Karizia was allowed to construct. His fee for this was to be 255,000 euros, even though securing permission to expand the construction area simply required paying a higher lease. General Pioneer had no formal relationship with Karizia, and it is unclear why Bozarov used this company to pay \u00d0urovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also unclear why this side agreement was made at all, since \u00d0urovi\u0107 remained Karizia\u2019s general director after transferring ownership of the company, meaning that he continued to work for the company as Bozarov\u2019s employee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2008 the request was granted by the Belgrade city administration, and the 255,000 euros were paid into \u00d0urovi\u0107\u2019s Serbian account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second contract between \u00d0urovi\u0107 and General Pioneer, dated September 19, 2008, set out the terms for the second additional payment of 780,000 euros for having successfully increased the size of the buildings permitted on the plot. \u00d0urovi\u0107 was still employed by Karizia at the time of the second payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u0110urovi\u0107 was hired to file paperwork to obtain building permits for land in Belgrade, but, years later, nothing has been constructed there (photo: KRIK)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Leaked correspondence suggests the 780,000-euro payment was made in a hurry. In an email to a Cypriot service provider that helped manage General Pioneer, sent the day before the transfer was made, Bozarov\u2019s daughter wrote that the payment to \u00d0urovi\u0107 was \u201cextremely urgent\u201d and needed to be sent \u201ctomorrow morning, first thing if possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, just three days before the assassination of Pukani\u0107, \u00d0urovi\u0107 resigned as a director of Karizia and left the company, whose ownership was simultaneously transferred to a Cypriot firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bozarov\u2019s daughter did not respond to a request for comment. Bozarov did not respond directly to questions about his business with \u00d0urovi\u0107, but said any payments from his companies were supported by \u201cvalid contractual documentation,\u201d and he and his lawyers shared copies of General Pioneer\u2019s contracts, signed with \u00d0urovi\u0107, related to the land deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet more than 15 years after those documents were signed, nothing has been built on the plot of land. When KRIK reporters visited the site last month, they found it empty, overgrown with vegetation and scattered with litter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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