{"id":6649,"date":"2015-11-23T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T09:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krik.rs\/en\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2015-11-23T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T09:55:11","slug":"balkan-organized-crime-sets-up-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krik.rs\/en\/balkan-organized-crime-sets-up-in-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkan Organized Crime Sets up in Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prague, the post-card perfect capital city of the Czech Republic, has long been hugely popular with tourists. But it\u2019s also very popular with other, less desirable visitors: Balkan organized crime groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reporters for KRIK, working with the Czech Center for Investigative Reporting, discovered that dozens of companies established in the Czech capitol are directly linked to powerful Balkan organized crime groups that make their money from drug trafficking, murder-for-hire and cigarette smuggling.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Stevan Doj\u010dinovi\u0107 (KRIK) and Pavla Holcova (CCIZ)<\/em><\/p>\n

Some of these companies are engaged in the gambling business and control chains of casinos. Others look like offshore paper companies without offices, financial reports or any information on record about the businesses.
\nReporters working on a joint investigation with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) interviewed several of the people who established these companies for the crime groups. They said the companies were used mainly to obtain European Union (EU) residency for the Balkan figures.<\/p>\n

Czech law allows foreign nationals who own businesses to obtain Czech (and thus EU) residency. Balkan crime gangs used emigrants from their home countries to set up what appear to be fictitious business structures in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

At least six important Balkan crime figures and their groups operate in the Czech Republic, especially in Prague. These include the Darko \u0160ari\u0107 group, Andrija Dra\u0161kovi\u0107, Milan Naran\u010di\u0107, the Qasim Osmani family, Borislav Plav\u0161i\u0107\u2019s group and the Izmet Osmani clan.<\/p>\n

Most are high-profile criminal names and even celebrities in their home countries. Some are facing trial for cocaine smuggling; others have been previously sentenced for murder. Their business activities range from cocaine to heroin trafficking, cigarette smuggling, and gambling.<\/p>\n

Police say the Czech Republic has been a favorite logistics hub for drug shipments since the early 1990s for various Balkan groups, and that this continues today.<\/p>\n

Each week, at least one multi-million dollar drug shipment goes through the Czech Republic into Germany, says Hynek Vlas, a former policemen and head of the Czech unit for combating organized crime (\u00daOOZ).<\/p>\n

Besides the narcotics business, the groups use Czech territory for setting up companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese groups use (the) Czech Republic as a logistical base, because their members can easily obtain residence through establishing a company,\u201d says the 2012 Annual Report of the Czech Police Anti-Narcotics Unit.\u00a0\u201cThe company can be dormant for many years without the threat of any penalty, so it often serves as a smokescreen for actual activities or as an inconspicuous address for delivery. Members of these groups also benefit from language similarity and prefer the position of the Czech Republic in central Europe, with quality air and motorway connections to the Balkans as well as the European Union.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u0160ari\u0107 group<\/strong><\/p>\n

The most famous name on the list is Darko \u0160ari\u0107, a celebrity in the Balkan organized crime world.<\/p>\n

Although \u0160ari\u0107 himself was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison for trafficking cocaine from South America \u2013 he was charged with trafficking 5.7 tons and laundering \u20ac 22 million (US$ 24 million) \u2013 parts of his group are believed to be largely intact and operating.<\/p>\n

\"Darko<\/a>

Darko \u0160ari\u0107<\/p><\/div>\n

\u0160ari\u0107 was the group\u2019s leader but, police say, he rarely if ever touches the merchandise himself. He has good relations with powerful politicians both in Serbia, where he is living, and Montenegro, where he was born in the town of Pljevlja. Top managers of \u0160ari\u0107\u2019s group were arrested in Operation Balkan Warrior by Serbian intelligence and the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The operation started in 2009, but \u0160ari\u0107 surrendered only in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u0160ari\u0107\u2019s trail in the Czech Republic is easy to follow but not so easy to document. In January 1998, he and eight other people established a company called Solimba Z. M. in Prague at Taborska 22\/603. That address does not exist.<\/p>\n

A formation agent named Milka \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nkov\u00e1 registered the company. She told reporters she came to Prague in 1993 to escape the Yugoslav wars.<\/p>\n

She said she formed companies for organized crime members, in part because they were from her Balkan community, and partly because she was the victim of an abusive relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came to Prague with two small kids. And I was pregnant,\u201d she said. \u201cI came together with my former husband Zoran. We relied on the support of our community. This is why I never asked too many questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she signed documents for her husband because she was afraid of him. \u201cHe was beating me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nkov\u00e1 said she was not aware that \u0160ari\u0107 was a drug lord.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know him from Pljevlja, our hometown. He always gave me the impression of being a nice guy, just a little bit of a yokel. I would never assume he would have such a mind and good-enough connections to do drug business,\u201d \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nkov\u00e1 said.<\/p>\n

\u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nkov\u00e1 said she met him just once, in 1993, when he came to sign the documents needed to establish the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not seen him since. He founded the company only to get his papers done \u2013 he was trying to get permanent residency everywhere. From what I know, he was aiming more West.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u0160ari\u0107\u00b4s lawyer, Radovan Strbac, is charged in Serbia with helping \u0160ari\u0107 launder money and with gathering sensitive information from police to help the drug-trafficking organization. He told reporters the same thing.<\/p>\n

“The point was that we, from this area, get as close to Europe as possible, to get residency there and (obtain) certain privileges that European companies have,\u201d Strbac told reporters from KRIK.<\/p>\n

Solimba Z.M. never filed any financial or annual report, \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nkov\u00e1 confirmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing ever happened with the company. There was no money and no business activities. I would know. They would need me to sign the papers. And it never happened,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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

Another Balkan family that helped organized crime figures establish companies in Prague was Ratko \u0160kori\u0107 and his son, Mi\u0161a. The \u0160kori\u0107s provided addresses for a number of companies formed by \u0160ari\u0107 associates.<\/p>\n

\"postansko<\/a>

Mi\u0161a \u0160kori\u0107 mailbox<\/p><\/div>\n

The \u0160kori\u0107 family register their companies in Mod\u0159any, an area on the outskirts of Prague dominated by tall blocks of flats typical of socialistic-era architecture. The flats were designed to be accessible living for young families, but ended up as clusters of anonymous hulks. It was here that \u0160ari\u0107\u00b4s close ally and alleged right-hand man, Goran Sokovi\u0107, established a company called VUK-SOK Company in one of three apartments owned by the \u0160kori\u0107 family. Sokovi\u0107 is currently a fugitive.<\/p>\n

\u0160ari\u0107\u2018s cousin Arso \u0160ari\u0107, who was sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling 20 kilograms of heroin in 2007, also received help from the \u0160kori\u0107 family.<\/p>\n

Only a month before his arrest in 2010, he opened the Czech company TIM Trade Praha. After his arrest, he transferred ownership to four citizens of India at the Czech embassy in Belgrade. Arso \u0160ari\u0107 was sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling drugs.<\/p>\n

When reporters of CCIZ asked Ratko \u0160kori\u0107 about \u0160ari\u0107 in a phone interview, he denied knowing \u0160ari\u0107, excused himself due to poor health and hung up. His son, Mi\u0161a \u0160kori\u010d, answered the doorbell and when asked about TIM Trade Praha, said he had never heard of the company, adding: \u201cWhat\u00b4s wrong with it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Police say another fugitive member of the \u0160ari\u0107 gang, Bo\u015bko Nedi\u0107, once controlled the cocaine market in Milan, Italy. They say he also shared a Prague-based company, Man-Co, with Vitomir Baji\u0107, another member of \u0160ari\u0107\u00b4s group.<\/p>\n

Police say Nedi\u0107 fled to South America to avoid arrest in Italy. Bajic was arrested in Montenegro and extradited to Italy, where he committed suicide in 2011.<\/p>\n

Dra\u0161kovi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrija Dra\u0161kovi\u0107 is another celebrity figure in the Balkan crime syndicates with ties to Prague. He was indicted in Italy for his involvement in a Montenegro-based cigarette smuggling scheme allegedly involving Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, and a number of well-known Balkan and Italian crime groups including the Sacra Corona Unita and Camorra crime families. In 2001, he was convicted of murdering Zvonko Plecic, another criminal, in a Belgrade restaurant and was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.<\/p>\n

Dra\u0161kovi\u0107 was released on appeal in 2004, only to be nearly killed in a hail of automatic gunfire when a rival crime gang allegedly attacked his armored Jeep, killing one bodyguard.<\/p>\n

\"22.09.2010,<\/a>

Andrija Draskovic<\/p><\/div>\n

Dra\u0161kovi\u0107 was convicted again in the Plecic shooting at a second trial in 2010; he was finally released in October of 2013.<\/p>\n

Dra\u0161kovi\u0107 was jailed again in Croatia in June 2015, under a warrant from Belgium. Belgian law enforcement was investigating him for his role in the 1990 murder of an Albanian political activist. After posting \u20ac 100,000 bail (US$ 110,000), Croatian authorities allowed him to await extradition in a luxury Croatian hotel. Dra\u0161kovi\u0107 promptly fled from Croatia to Serbia. His lawyer told KRIK that he cannot be extradited from Serbia to Belgium because the countries don\u2019t have an extradition agreement.<\/p>\n

In Prague, Dra\u0161kovi\u0107 registered a company called Mizzora. According to Ivana \u0160imkov\u00e1, a woman who has registered other companies for the \u0160ari\u0107 gang, the crime figure has shown little interest in the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came just once to sign the papers, I haven’t seen him since. All the establishing process was done in a rush, which is why my daughter Martina was enlisted as a signatory,\u201d \u0160imkov\u00e1 said. Her daughter, Martina \u0160imkov\u00e1, a hairdresser by trade, shows up on company formation documents from 2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe companies are dormant. They were established only to gain permanent residency in the Czech Republic. To get the permanent residency by the ordinary way takes more than five years, which was a time frame that not many of my clients would consider,\u201d says \u0160imkov\u00e1.<\/p>\n

Mizzora is registered at the address of its accountant, Marie Vejanoska, on Molitorovska Street in Prague. Vejanoska also does accounting for \u0160ari\u0107\u2019s associate Bo\u0161ko Nedi\u0107 and a company for Rijad Izi\u0107, a business partner of Sa\u0161o Mijalkov, the head of the Macedonian secret service.<\/p>\n

Vejanoska would only say, \u201cI have nothing to do with the companies, they are just located here and I do their accounting work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lemon\u2019s Gang<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before entering the gambling business, Milan \u201cLemon\u201d Naran\u010di\u0107 was allegedly a member of the Belgrade-based Sur\u010din clan, Serbian police said in a special investigative report in 2002.<\/p>\n

\"Milan<\/a>

Milan i Branka Narancic – photo from their private album.<\/p><\/div>\n

The violent group controlled heroin and cocaine trafficking operations in the region, the report said, and was active in money laundering and other crimes. The Sur\u010din clan was one of the biggest organized crime groups in Serbia until 2003 when it was broken up by police raids.<\/p>\n

The clan was involved in murders, drug trafficking, car theft and cigarette smuggling. One of the offshoots of the Sur\u010din clan was the notorious Zemun clan whose members were involved in the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindji\u0107.<\/p>\n

Naran\u010di\u0107’s most recent arrest was in 2003 as part of a police sweep aimed at rounding up alleged organized crime figures. He was released four days later and has not had any legal troubles since. In 2003, Naran\u010di\u0107 established a company called LD Games in the Czech city of Cheb; it has since closed.<\/p>\n

No one has ever heard of LD Games. There is no sign of the company at its official address and people working at that address in Cheb do not recall a company called LD Games. Still, its last financial report from 2005 showed a US$ 700,000 annual turnover.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, in 2012 the company was struck off the business register for not being present at its domicile and not being able to pay its debts.<\/p>\n

Borislav Plavsic group<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoran \u201cSuri\u201d Petkovi\u0107, an associate of drug dealer Borislav Plavsic, was arrested in late 2010 for attempting to smuggle 120 kilograms of heroin from Istanbul to the Czech Republic. A Slovenian Mercedes truck filled with 383 packets of heroin hidden in boxes of lemons was stopped by authorities in Belgrade. The plan had been to cut the mostly pure heroin in the Czech Republic for shipment to Western Europe.<\/p>\n

Petkovi\u0107 established his Prague company in 2003 and called it Surikompani, matching his nickname. According to financial reports, the company conducted no business activities and was struck off the register in 2010. According to a police investigation, the company was supposed to be a front for narcotics trafficking.<\/p>\n

Jan Draslar, the liquidator of the company, said: \u201cNo one was answering my legal requests and I did not find the company at its alleged address. I even sent a legal request to Croatia, to help me monitor the company assets. Specifically I was asking about one car in evidence of the company, but no one ever replied. So I have closed this case and this company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albanian Mob<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Kuca<\/a>

House at Brezova<\/p><\/div>\n

Kosovar-born Ismet \u201cCurri\u201d Osmani from Kosovska Mitrovica established his company Dafina in Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic, located about 100 kilometers north of Vienna. For a long period of time, the company was dormant, but last year, in August 2014, Osmani sold a majority share to his roommate, Nikola Ku\u017enini.<\/p>\n

Both Osmani and Ku\u017enini are living in an upscale house on B\u0159ezov\u00e1 Street in Brno. They share this address with Pjeter Nikollaj, who was vice-chairman of the board of directors of Paradise Casino Admiral \u2013 a network of 20 casinos that belong to the Austrian-based Novomatic group.<\/p>\n

Felix<\/strong><\/p>\n

Qazim \u201cFelix\u201d Osmani (no known connection to Ismet Osmani) earned his nickname for his alleged legendary luck at gambling \u2013 allegedly he made his first million Deutsche Marks in casinos. The Kosovo-born Osmani cultivates a playboy image and is often seen dating Serbian pop singers.<\/p>\n

He is also head of the Osmani family business, which is worth more than \u20ac 400,000,000 (US$ 440 million). Together with his brothers, he runs casinos, nightclubs and gambling houses across Europe. In Prague, he is co-owner of the Banco Casino, a network of 20 casinos located headquartered on P\u0159\u00edkopy Street. Its annual turnover is about US$ 5 million.<\/p>\n

\"\u0106azim<\/a>

Qazim \u201cFelix\u201d Osmani<\/p><\/div>\n

According to a German BND investigation, Osmani and his brothers, who are his closest business partners, were investigated many times for violence, prostitution, fraud, money laundering, extortion and drug possession.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Osmani clan is an organized group active in the transfer of cocaine and is financing the purchase of weapons for the U\u0106K (a violent paramilitary group from Kosovo),\u201d says a BND report obtained by OCCRP. Nevertheless, Felix – the lucky one – has never been found guilty. His brother Burim Osmani was found guilty of possessing forged documents and was sentenced to pay a fine of 20,000 Deutsche Marks (US$ 11,200), according to the BND report.<\/p>\n

According to a Czech custom police officer, some of the Balkan criminals have gained the status of untouchable, so the chance they will be ever sentenced for anything related to drugs, is minimal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose kind of drug lords are staying far from the real cocaine or heroin business. They are just sitting in some cozy place, remotely supervising the operations \u2013 through additional layers of managers and sub-managers. We can raid their network, but we always hit the lower levels of people working for them, those who are easily replaceable,\u201d says a highly ranked police officer from Customs Administration who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of those narco-traffickers chose Prague for its perfect location for logistical operations. They are staying or coming to Prague to make deals or to watch the trucks with their drug packages driving through Europe. If their official companies are dormant or not, it often does not matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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