Investigation against Stanko Subotic into “Network” case ended

Cane’s group accused for fraud of 24 million Euro

Author: U. Piper | 21.11.2007 - 06:05

Vucko Mircic, the magistrate in charge of the investigation, from the
Department for Organized Crime of the Belgrade District Court, ended
the investigation against Stanko Subotic into “Network” case. The end
of the investigation against the smuggler group (led by Bojana
Bajrusevic, Mirjana Markovic and Marko Milosevic) is also expected in
near future, as well as against the criminal group from Nis, led by
Sinisa Stojicic, the brother of Radovan Stojicic Badza, the Minister’s
assistant at the time.

“Subotic’s criminal group has been accused of smuggling and illegally
selling cigarettes from 1995 to 1996, costing the state budget roughly
24 million Euros. The judge Mircic conducted an investigation five
months, examined the witnesses and gave expert opinion on the
financial issues”, Maja Kovacevic, the spokeswoman for the Special Court for Organized Crime, said for “Blic”. She added that the indictment was forwarded to the Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime, who should make the final decision until the 6th of December.
The arrest of Subotic’s criminal group was carried out in June. Since Subotic was not in Serbia at the time, an international warrant for his arrest was issued, but he has still not been found.
The police suspect that Subotic is hiding in Montenegro or
Switzerland, or maybe in France. Having close relations with
Montenegrin authorities, Subotic is the greatest importer of alcoholic drinks. Apart from several companies in Serbia and Montenegro, he also owns firms in the countries of the EU.
Apart from Subotic as the leader of the group, there are three other persons on the run, while other suspects are in custody. Criminal charges are also brought against Mihalj Kertes, the director of the Customs at the time, Nebojsa Nikolic Tarzan, Drage Dodeski and Stevan Banovic, the former Customs employees, Milan Milanovic Mrgud, the
former high state official, ” Miodrag Zavisic, the founder of the “Scorpions”, Milan Popivoda, the former head of SUP Novi Sad, Milan Rankovic, the former head of Novi Sad DB, Miroslav Pesic, “Mia”employees, the singer Ivana Olujic, Djordje Subotic, Nikola Milosevic, Jovica Randjelovic, Ivana Krcmarevic and Luka Nenadic.

Russians won’t arrest Marko Milosevic
An international warrant for the arrest of Bojana Bajrusevic, Marko Milosevic and Mirjana Markovic,
suspected “tobacco maffia”, has been issued. The police suspect that Bojana Bajrusevic is hiding in Montenegro, while Mirjana and Marko are freely moving on the territory of Russia. Mirjana Milosevic, the leader of the criminal group, is suspected of ordering Kertes to transport the goods “Tref rent a car” across the border without
control. The main Bajrusevic’s protector Marko Milosevic earned several million Deutsch marks through cigarette smuggling.
Although the warrant for the arrest of Marko Milosevic has been issued, the Russian authorities have not made any effort to arrest him.

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Serbia to Try Alleged Smuggler in Absentia

05 September 2008

Beograd _ Serbia`s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by an alleged cigarette smuggler`s attorney not to try him in absentia.

The court ruled that the trial of Stanko Subotic should go ahead “because he is on the run”. He is charged with cigarette smuggling during the 1990s.

“There are particularly important reasons for him to be tried in absentia,” the court ruling said. It did not list these reasons.

Subotic has been at large for more than a year since his detention was ordered. An Interpol warrant has been issued for his arrest.

When the warrant for his arrest was issued, Subotic was in detention in Russia. However, he was released. Serbia subsequently demanded his extradition.
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Subotic is accused of organising a criminal group which illegally imported and sold cigarettes in Serbia between 1995 and 1996.

In April this year the Belgrade daily Blic quoted a police source as saying that Montenegro Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, who has been described as a friend of Subotic, had guaranteed his free passage to Moscow.

The source said that Djukanovic`s guarantee meant that Subotic, “regardless of an Interpol arrest warrant, will not be detained,” according to the paper.

Bankruptcy Mafia decision dangerous precedent

3 August 2008

Organized Crime Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevi criticized a decision to cancel detention in a high profile case.

The Supreme Court last week decided to let Sekula Pjev
evi, Jelica Živkovi and Goran Kljajevi leave prison as proceedings against them continue.

The three are former state employees – Kljajevi was president of the Commercial Court – suspected of abusing office to make illegal gains in bankruptcy cases.

Radisavljevi told the daily Blic that he believes the move jeopardizes and impedes the work of his office, but also that of police, investigative judges and the court council that is currently conducting the main hearing.

The prosecutor also spoke about the case of the murder of Slavko uruvija, a journalist shot dead in Belgrade in the spring of 1999, by saying that his office does not have sufficient evidence to lodge a request to start another investigation, but that he hopes “new personnel in the security structures will help discover the perpetrators of this crime”.

As for another case the media dubbed a mafia – this time the Tobacco Mafia, and its alleged leader Stanko Suboti’s extradition from Russia, so far denied by that country, Radisavljevi told the newspaper that his detention was ordered on multiple charges, and not only out of fear that he might flee.

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