News: Zemun Clan - Red Barrets and the assassination of Premier Zoran Djindjic

27.9.2011 by ctstmaser.

More Red Beret arrests in Serbia

26/09/2011

A probe into activities of a special ops unit could shed new light on the Djindjic assassination.

By Igor Jovanovic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade — 26/09/11

 

Former Red Berets commander Milorad “Legija” Ulemek was convicted in 2007 for his role in the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. [Reuters]

Serbian police on September 20th arrested four former members of a special operations unit that organised a November 2001 rebellion against the government. The fifth suspect, belonging to a unit known as the Red Berets, avoided arrest as he is out of the country.

Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said after the arrests that it was “of state importance” to reveal the possible political background of their rebellion. “I expect the investigation to provide answers, as does Zoran Djindjic’s family and all Serbian citizens,” Djelic said.

The Red Berets were a special unit of the Serbian secret police, formed during the former Yugoslav conflicts. The unit’s former commander, Milorad “Legija” Ulemek, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 2003 assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in Belgrade.

For some Belgrade politicians and analysts, the latest arrests show that light is finally being shed on the political connections behind Djindjic’s murder. Others, though, see it as part of the pre-election campaign in Serbia, and doubt that it will deliver results.

All agree on the necessity of finding those who ordered the killing. There is widespread doubt among the Serbian public that it was organised solely by Ulemek and his “Zemun Clan”.

Lawyer Bozo Prelevic, who was the assistant interior minister in Djindjic’s cabinet, said it is good that such an investigation is taking place. However, he said, the probe should have been launched much earlier.

Coming a decade after the 2001 rebellion, he said, there is a strong likelihood that the trail will have gone cold.

Zemun gang member Milos Simovic, arrested in Croatia after years of hiding, said at the trial that he knew who had ordered Djindjic’s murder and who among the politicians had known he would be killed.

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over 10 years ago, the journalist Curuvija, was murded in belgrad

Milos Simovic: Legija showed me Curuvija’s assassin in discotheque
Tamara Markovi-Subota | 12. 04. 2011. - 00:02h | Komentara: 0

Belgrade - ‘Milorad Ulemek was talking to a man in a discotheque and then he told me: ‘This man killed Curuvija’. Later I saw Miki Kurak, member of the State Security in photographs and recognized him as the man from the discotheque’, Zemun gang member Milos Simovic said.

Miki Kurak

Miroslav Miki Kurak named by Milos Simovic as a man who killed journalist
Slavko Curuvija has been living in Tanzania for several years ‘Blic’ learns. His main occupation is safari hunting.

Milos Simovic, member of the Zemun gang arrested in June last year said in pre-
criminal proceedings for assassination of Curuvija that he did not have direct
knowledge over the crime committed on the Easter Day in 1999.

‘A month after Curuvija’s murder, I was in a discotheque with Milorad Ulemek
Legija. He was then approached by a man whom I saw for the first time. I did not
know who he was. They talked for several minutes, had a glass of drink and the man left. Legija turned to me and said: He killed Curuvija’’, Simovic testified.

He further said that Legija had not told him the man’s name. ‘Later I saw Miki
Kurak’s photographs in newspapers and recognized him’, Simovic testified.

However, Simovic’s testifying has not led to crucial progress in the investigation
revealing who ordered, who organized and who committed assassination of Slavko Curuvija. Simovic’s knowledge over the murder is indirect and can be of use only if some other witness would confirm or substantiate it by evidence.

Serbian Attorney General Zagorka Dolovac said for ‘Blic’ yesterday that Milos
Simovic had been questioned, that certain progress had been made, that a huge
number of proofs had been provided and that more than a hundred witnesses
had been heard. Among those witnesses there are also former members of the 9th Administration of the State Security. According to Dolovac’s words ‘there are
indications that the secret service has been responsible for the crime’ and that ‘in spite of omissions made at the crime scene, Curuvija’s murder shall not remain unsolved’.

Miroslav Kurak was arrested over Curuvija’s murder in the ‘Sward’ police action but was released two months later without a single account of charge which would bring him in connection with the crime.
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http://english.blic.rs/News/7547

08. 04. 2011. - 00:02h | Komentara: 0

Emergency vehicle drivers under investigation as courriers of Zemun gang

Novica Elek (30) who was arrested last week over suspicion to have been involved in an armed robbery on money transport of the ‘Securitas’ company on March 10 when about 83 million Dinars were stolen, allegedly got sick at premises of the Police Administration for the City of Belgrade. A driver of emergency car that came to give him medical help tried to secretly give Elek several pills of ‘Bensedin’, ‘Blic’ learns
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Last week the police arrested Novica Elek (30), Ivan Jurek (35), Bogdan Restovic
(22), Milos Markovic (33), policeman Petar Obradovic (31), Boris Polic (3 and
Senad Denaj (33) all suspected for armed attack on money transport. The stolen
money has not been found yet. It is believed that some members of the gang have invested it in real estate.
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Zemun Clan, Zoran Djindjic und akutelle Ermittlungen in Serbien

 

BLIC

Srdja Popovic, Djindjic family lawyer, has said that the man mentioned by Milos Simovic, convicted of assassinating then Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, under the nickname ‘Coki’ as allegedly ordering the assassination of Djindjic was then deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic.

Such a statement represents Simovic’s attempt to gain the status of protected witness, though the Prosecution for organised crime believes that he is doing so through claims already heard earlier during the original trial.

Simovic would to become prosecution’s witness via Covic and thin proofs
Statement by Milos Simovic that Nebojsa Covic ordered assassination of Premier Zoran Djindjic is his attempt to get the status…»

Slovenians arrested and then released tripled murderer

Organizer of one of the most horrible crimes in Serbia, a triple murder in Belgrade in 1993, Aleksandar Zlender (35) was arrested in Slovenia last Friday and then released. He is Slovenian citizen and…»

As ‘Blic’ learns Zlender replied with ‘I have no idea’ to all questions regarding a triple murder committed in Belgrade as his lawyer instructed him.

Aleksandar Zlender

According to our source Slovenian citizenship is protecting Zlender from extradition to Serbia. However, it is not clear to anyone why during sixteen years since issuance of the wanted list no agreement has been reached between Serbia and Slovenia so that charges are raised against Zlender by a criminal court in Ljubljana.

On October 9, 1993 during robbery of a flat in Belgrade Zlender killed a businessman Nebojsa Salatic, his girlfriend Slavica Kovacevic and Salatic’s underage nephew.

Vuk Z. Cvijić | Utorak, 13. 09. 2011. - 00:02h | Komentara: 0

Statements about political conspiracy offered by Simovic not important in investigation
Statements given by Milos Simovic (32) the last arrested member of the Zemun gang, that he gave yesterday at the beginning of repeated trial for assassination of Premier Zoran Djindjic referring to political…»

Željka Jevtić | Petak, 09. 09. 2011. - 00:02h | Komentara: 0

Gold confiscated from criminals to be turned into bullion bars
Serbian Government shall have gold confiscated from criminals cast into bullion bars, ‘Blic’ learns. The Ministry of Justice is to decide how big bars are going to be, how they shall be sold and what the…»

Tamara Spaić | Sreda, 07. 09. 2011. - 02:02h | Komentara: 0

Serbia to lose EUR 9 millions each year because of fuel smuggling
Serbs in the Kosovo north might become again hostages of petrol, wood and similar goods smugglers who thanks to no control of tax collection were smuggling or carrying out faked export to Kosovo. As ‘Blic’…»
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