Notable People
The reign of Slobodan Milošević represented the height of power of Serbian organized crime, when mafiosos and government officials were intertwined. Milošević had criminals work for him in different special units. The role of several Belgrade gangsters was described in the documentary film "Vidimo se u čitulji" ("See You in the Obituary").
| Name |
Born/died | Title | Info | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mafiosi | ||||
| Stevan Marković |
1937–1968 | Gangster | Alain Delon's bodyguard, his body was found in a garbage dump in the Paris suburbs in October 1968. His death will be the occasion of an attempt to destabilize the highest level of the French state, with accusations against the couple Pompidou. | Own gang |
| Novica (Živković) Jovanović |
1954-1984 | Gangster | Known as a gentleman robber he and his friend Bruno Sulak the most wanted mens of the eighties in France and Europe for a series of spectacular robberies in Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Paris, Lyon, etc... Killed in an ambush by a special unit of the French police, while trying to release from prison his friend Bruno Sulak. Stiv and Bruno were the forerunner of todays pink panther group. | Own gang |
| Ranko Rubežić |
1951–1985 | Boss | Murdered in February 1985 by four of his own associates: Miroslav "Vuja" Vujisić, Dragan "Dadilja" Popović, Boris Petkov, and Bojan Petrović. | |
| Ljubomir Magaš |
1948–1986 | Godfather Head Boss |
A Yugoslav amateur boxer, streetfighter and gangster, during the 70's and 80's he operated his own gang in Germany and was killed in 1986 by rival Goran Vuković "Majmun". | Own gang |
| Branislav Matić |
1952–1991 | Boss | One of the closest friends of Giška. He was the owner of 70 auto waste in the largest auto waste in the Netherlands. One of the founders and major financers Serbian Guard. He was killed outside his family home on the doorstep on August 4, 1991. | Giška |
| Đorđe Božović |
1955–1991 | Boss | Killed in Gospić on 15 September 1991 during battle. There are strong indications that he was killed by his own men. | Ljuba Zemunac |
| Aleksandar Knežević |
1971–1992 | Lieutenant | The youngest "star" of the Serbian mafia at the beginning of the 1990s, he was a bodyguard to Serbian politician Vuk Drašković. Knežević was murdered on October 28, 1992 in his room at the "Hyatt" hotel in Belgrade. | Voždovac Giška |
| Georg Stanković |
1946–1993 | Boss | One of the infamous mob bosses of the older generation. He was murdered on October 1, 1993 by a sole hitman. | |
| Goran Vuković |
1959–1994 | Boss | Murdered Ljuba Zemunac outside the court in 1986. Was assassinated alongside mob Dušan Malović in downtown Belgrade on December 12, 1994 | Voždovac |
| Mihajlo Divac | 1967–1995 | Boss | Leader of the Novi Beograd gang at time, he had previously survived a number of murder attempts. In one attempt executor was Luka Bojović. Divac was gunned down in the hall of the Hotel "Putnik", in Belgrade in 1995. | Novi Beograd |
| Božidar Stanković |
1969–1996 | Georg Stanković's son, he was murdered on June 23, 1996 by a sole hitman. | ||
| Zoran Dimitrov |
1966–1996 | Had priorly survived a number of assassination attempts, but was killed on October 6, 1996 by a sole hitman. | Voždovac | |
| Rade Ćaldović |
1950–1997 | Boss | The infamous Belgrade mafioso, was murdered on February 14, 1997 in his car in Belgrade by two assassins. | |
| Darko Ašanin | 1959–1998 | A Belgrade gangster involved with drugs and killings. His uncle was Pavle Bulatović, the late Defense Minister. Murdered on June 30, 1998, in his cafe "Koloseum" in Dedinje by a sole hitman. | ||
| Jusuf Bulić |
1952–1998 | Underboss | He was clan member of Ljubomir Magas during 1980's, and the owner of FC Zeleznik. One of Arkan's closest friends, killed in 1998. | Ljuba Zemunac Arkan |
| Zoran Šijan | 1964–1999 | Boss | Former European champion in kick-boxing, so-called leader of Surcin gang of criminals killed on 27 November 1999 at the corner of streets Nemanja and Svetozar Markovic in Belgrade. He was the husband of Serbian Turbo-folk singer Goca Božinovska. | Surčin |
| Branislav Lainović |
1955-2000 | Boss | Founder of the Serbian Volunteer Guard with Giška | |
| Željko Ražnatović |
1952–2000 | Head Boss | Considered the most powerful criminal in Serbia until his assassination in 15 January 2000 . | Own network |
| Radoslav Trlajić |
1963–2000 | A Belgrade mob boss and a member of the Novi Beograd gang. He was famous for referring to Serbia and Belgrade in the nineties as "a pond too small for so many crocodiles". He was murdered on February 26, 2000 by Mile Luković of the Zemun gang. | Novi Beograd |
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| Zoran Davidović |
1972–2000 | Murdered while returning from the funeral of Branislav Lainović on March 23, 2000 by the Zemun clan. | ||
| Dušan Spasojević |
1968–2003 | Head Boss | Head of one of the largest Serbian criminal groups on record, the Zemun clan.The peak of this cartel's influence occurred from 2000 until 2003 when Spasojević was killed by Serbian police on March 27, 2003 during a country-wide manhunt initiated after the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić. | Zemun clan |
| Milan Luković |
1969–2003 | Head | Head of one of the largest Serbian criminal groups on record, the Zemun clan. The peak of this cartel's influence occurred from 2000 until 2003 when Luković was killed by Serbian police on March 27, 2003 during a country-wide manhunt initiated after the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić. | Zemun clan |
| Boško Radonjić |
1943-2011 | Godfather | Irish American godfather. Died in VMA on May 31, 2011. | Irish American Mafia |
| Sreten Jocić |
1962- | Boss Underboss |
One of most known mafiosi, became strongest in Netherlands through his elimination of rivals. He smuggled cocaine from Colombia. He worked under "Duja" Becirovic as underboss in the Belgrade group and became boss after Duja died in 1990 after Bruinsma hired the kill. He smuggled drugs in Bulgaria and was arrested in 2002. In Serbia, he took over companies with the Surčin clan. Joca was involved in the 2008 car bomb which killed journalist Ivo Pukanić in Zagreb. | Belgrade group |
| Stanko Subotić |
1959- | Boss | Head of the Tobacco Mafia that smuggled cigarettes throughout Europe, allegedly connected with Serbian and Montenegrin officials. | Tobacco Mafia |
| Milorad Ulemek |
1968- | Boss | Arkan's Tigers member during the Yugoslav wars, transferred into the Red berets by Milošević, involved in Đinđić murder | Arkan Zemun |
| Kristijan Golubović | 1969- | The only surviving gangster of top Belgrade criminals in the 90's | Godson of Ljuba Zemunac | |
| Sretko Kalenić |
1974- | Member of the Zemun clan, the clan's role was to liquidate the person who orders Dusan Spasojevic | Zemun clan | |
| Miloš Simovió | 1979- | Member of the Zemun clan,accused of involvement in the assassination of premier Zoran Djindjic | Zemun clan | |
| Luka Bojović |
1973- | Boss Lieutenant |
Arkan's Tigers member and Lieutenant during the Yugoslav wars | Arkan Zemun clan |
| Vladimir Milisavljević |
1976- | Member of the Zemun clan,accused of involvement in the assassination of premier Zoran Djindjic | Zemun clan | |
| Darko Šarić | 1970- | Head Boss | Šarić's clan |
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| Assassinations & connected people | ||||
| Klaas Bruinsma |
1953–1991 | Drug lord | A Dutch drug lord killed on June 27, 1991 by Martin Hoogland, a former police hired by Joca Amsterdam as a revenge for the killing of Joca's boss, the previous Belgrade group leader Duja. | |
| Radojica Nikčević | 1948–1993 | Businessman | A businessman who is said to have had close ties with the State Security Service, but also with Arkan, who was killed on 7 October 1993. The front of his office in Dedinje. His work takes Arkan godfather Giovanni di Stefano. He was suspected of having ties with the Medellin cartel. | FR Yugoslavia |
| Radislava Vujasinović |
1964–1994 | Journalist | Reporter for the news magazine Duga. She was found dead in her apartment on April 8, 1994. The police ruled it a suicide, but most evidence disputes this. She was active the day before and made many plans for the future. | |
| Vlada Kovačević |
1958–1997 | Businessman | Businessman and close friend of Marko Milosevic, son of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosević, who was killed on 20 February 1997. The front of the Belgrade Center "Sava". | Marko Milošević |
| Radovan Stojičić |
1951–1997 | Chief | a police chief killed on 10 April 1997 in the pizza parlour "Mama Mia" in Belgrade by a sole hitman. | Police |
| Zoran Todorović |
1959–1997 | Businessman Politician |
The Secretary General of the Yugoslav Left was killed on 24 October 1997. in New Beogad, front seat of the company "Beopetrol", which he was director. | Mirjana Marković |
| Slavko Ćuruvija | 1949–1999 | Journalist, Owner and chief editor of the newspapers | The owner of the Belgrade daily "Daily Telegraph" and weekly "European" was killed on 11 April 1999. front of his apartment in Svetogorska street 35, in downtown Belgrade during the NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia. The assassination was preceded by an attack on Curuvija in state media. Public Safety accompanied him all day, until just before the murder. | |
| Jill Dando | 1961–1999 | Journalist | English journalist, television presenter and newsreader who worked for the BBC for 14 years. She was murdered by gunshot outside her home in Fulham, West London. Hitman was sent form FR Yugoslavia. | |
| Zoran Uskoković |
1963–2000 | Businessman | a Belgrade businessman, was murdered on April 27, 2000 by the members of the Zemun clan. | |
| Branislav Lainović |
1955–2000 | Businessman | Businessman from Novi Sad. Murdered in Belgrade on March 21, 2000 by Miloš Simović of the Zemun gang. | |
| Momir Gavrilović | 1959–2001 | Deputy Chief (Retired) |
was killed by Milorad Ulemek "Legija" and the Zemun clan in an attempt to damage Zoran Đinđić's administration by convincing the public that he was killed for delivering "evidence" of government ties with the criminals. Sretko Kalinić's, the number one hitman of the Zemun clan, DNA was found on the murder spot. Zvezdan Jovanović was asked to carry out the assassination. | BIA |
| Smail Tarić | 1981–2008 | Beheaded because of his connections with the police by two members of the Berane Clan, Velibor Brkić and Milos Rašić. | ||
| Danilo Radonjić | 1948–2011 | Businessman | One of many businessman's during 90's. He's first assassination attempt was made back in 1985 when Andrija Lakonjić Laki tries to kill him in front of restaurant "Sabor" at Belgrade Fair. He was killed on September 6, 2011, by professional hitman . | |
| Boško Raičević | 1971–2012 | Businessman | He was a "relative and associate" of Andrija Drašković - who was put on trial and found guilty for the murder of a member of the Surčin Clan organized crime group. He was killed by the blast that destroys his car. | |
| Radojica Joksović |
1980–2012 | Businessman | He was "the key witness" in the case against the Darko Šarić, while reports described the two as "friends since elementary school". He was killed by the blast that destroys his car. | |
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