Investigations

27/07/2021

Ukraine Cops Implicated in Attempted Murder of Montenegrin Gangster

Montenegrin crime boss Radoje Zvicer was scampering back to his Kyiv apartment with his kids to escape a spring rainfall last year when shots rang out. Authors: Dmytro Replianchuk (Slidstvo), Yevheniia Motorevska (Slidstvo), Stevan Dojčinović (OCCRP/KRIK), and Bojana Jovanović (KRIK) Zvicer, who leads Montenegro’s Kavač cocaine-trafficking clan, barely survived the […]
25/05/2021

Lukashenko Doles Out Prime Belarus Real Estate to Serbian Cronies

Belarus has given away about $1 billion worth of land to construction companies owned by Serbia’s well-connected Karić family. Authors: Stas Ivashkevich (Belarusian Investigative Center), Olga Ratmirova (Belarusian Investigative Center), Ales Yarashevich (Belarusian Investigative Center), and Bojana Jovanovic (KRIK) When the Minsk City Council announced the winner of an architectural […]
09/02/2021

Serbian President’s ‘Best Man’ Linked to Businessman with Organized Crime Ties

Nikola Petrović, a close friend of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, has done business with Stanko Subotić, a controversial figure with long-standing ties to organized crime. Data from the new OpenLux project reveals that Subotić sold an aviation firm to Petrović for what appears to be a hugely discounted price, through […]
23/10/2020

How an Irrepressible Serbian Arms Dealer Found a Conduit to Saudi Arabia through Qatar

A Cypriot shell firm accused of funnelling bribes on behalf of a notorious Serbian weapons dealer deposited $1.7 million into a secretive trust fund set up for a prominent Saudi, leaked bank records show. Authors: Lawrence Marzouk and Stevan Dojčinović That fund’s Qatari parent company was subsequently fined by regulators […]
02/09/2020

Zoran Jaksić’s Last Hurrah in Peru

By Pavla Holcová and Stevan Dojčinović The world got a little smaller on July 17, 2016. That evening, television news reports in Peru and in Serbia were covering the very same story: A global drug trafficker who had switched among 40 identities to escape justice for years had finally been caught. […]

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