Stanko Subotić aka Cane accused on Wednesday former Interior Minister Dušan Mihajlović of accepting his money.
Subotić is wanted in Serbia on cigarette smuggling charges, and his representatives held a press conference in Belgrade to say that Mihajlović received a quarter of a million euros in 2003.
Posts Tagged ‘cigarette smuggling’
Ex-minister accused of corruption
August 12th, 2010 |
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Diplomat smuggled cigarettes from Kosovo
July 6th, 2010 |
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Austria’s customs service have detained a foreign diplomat accredited to Serbia and his driver for cigarette smuggling. They are suspected of smuggling more than 25,000 cartons of cigarettes worth about EUR 1mn in the past two years, Austrian media have reported.
“Crime bosses held series of meetings”
March 19th, 2010 |
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A daily writes that suspected crime bosses Stanko Subotić and Darko Šarić held a series of meetings in Montenegro, Switzerland and France over the last year. Subotić, aka Cane, accused of leading a cigarette smuggling ring, and Šarić, who is accused of smuggling 2.7 tons of cocaine into the region, were in constant communication, and meeting almost every month, a Blic daily source stated.
“Prosecution to verify Subotić allegations”
March 17th, 2010 |
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Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime Miljko Radisavljević says allegations made by “controversial businessman” Stanko Subotić, aka Cane, will be verified. Subotić, indicted in Serbia for his role in the 1990s cigarette smuggling operations, said in a phone-in a B92 TV live talk show on Monday evening that money that he was owed was used to finance the purchase of the Port of Belgrade company and Belgrade-based daily VeÄernje Novosti.
Delta, daily deny allegations
March 16th, 2010 |
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Delta Holding has denied having any joint investments with “businessman Stanko Subotić”, it was announced in Belgrade. Subotić, aka Cane, is a suspected mastermind behind the cigarette smuggling operations in the 1990s.
Crime suspect accuses Montenegrin politician
March 15th, 2010 |
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A suspected cigarette smuggling kingpin has accused two Serbian businessmen of “using his money” to buy Port of Belgrade and a daily newspaper. Stanko Subotić, aka Cane, indicted in Serbia for cigarette smuggling operations organized in the 1990s, last night took part in a B92 TV program via phone.
Äukanović’s statements wanted in 4 murder probes
January 20th, 2010 |
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Montenegro’s Supreme Prosecution has submitted a request to the Podgorica Higher Court to question Milo Äukanović and Stanko Subotić aka Cane. The pair, previously mentioned in connection to cigarette smuggling probes, should give their statements in investigations of four murders, Podgorica daily Dan writes.
Ex-Äukanović ally “ready to testify”
November 25th, 2009 |
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Ratko Knežević, described as a Montenegrin businessman, says he is ready to testify in the cigarette smuggling case against Stanko Subotić, aka Cane. The former advisor of Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Äukanović told B92 TV that he has talked with the Serbian special prosecutor via video link from Zagreb about the so-called Tobacco Mafia, that worked on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
Tobacco Mafia, assassinations cases take new turn?
October 19th, 2009 |
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Serbia’s public prosecutor has provided two key witnesses in the investigation of the so-called Tobacco Mafia, a Belgrade daily reports. Blic newspaper writes today that the first witness is going to present new evidence against Stanko Subotić, aka Cane, who is accused of cigarette smuggling.
Police “contact” ex-Äukanović ally
August 29th, 2009 |
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Montenegrin police have contacted Ratko Knežević, who recently accused the country’s PM Milo Äukanović of committing criminal acts. In a series of interviews, the former envoy to Washington and Äukanović’s close associate also pointed the finger at Stanko Subotić, aka Cane, indicted in Serbia for organizing cigarette smuggling operations.
Knežević claims to have proof
August 24th, 2009 |
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Former chief of the Montenegrin trade mission in Washington, Ratko Knežević, said that he can prove his allegations regarding cigarette smuggling activities. “My publicly stated claims in the media will once again be confirmed officials, and the material evidence which I have will be submitted,†Knežević said regarding the statements he gave to the media earlier about Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Äukanović’s involvement in cigarette smuggling.
Police to question Knežević regarding smuggling allegations
August 23rd, 2009 |
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Montenegrin police inspectors will question former Washington trade mission chief Ratko Knežević about his allegations regarding cigarette smuggling activities. According to daily Dan, Montenegrin police administration Director Veselin Veljović said that Knežević “will have the opportunity to give his statement on his information regarding cigarette smuggling actions in a direct talk with police officials.â€
Dirty money financed Montenegrin club
July 26th, 2009 |
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A Swiss indictment on cigarette smuggling in the Balkans says that money gained in this way financed a well-known Montenegrin sports club. The prosecution in the Swiss town of Bern claims that part of the illegal gains made by a criminal group of cigarette smugglers, made available in Switzerland, financed basketball club Budućnost from Podgorica.
Former Äukanović adviser “fears for his lifeâ€
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Äukanović’s former adviser, Ratko Knežević, says that he fears for his life. Knežević has accused Äukanović of being involved in cigarette smuggling activities during the 1990s.
Former ally slams Äukanović as “cartel boss”
July 21st, 2009 |
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A former adviser to Montenegrin PM Milo Äukanović says that the so-called Tobacco Cartel is to blame for the murder of Ivo Pukanić. The Croatian journalist and publisher was assassinated last fall in Zagreb. Now Ratko Knežević told Podgorica’s Vijesti daily what he claims he knows about cigarette smuggling operations, secret channels, bank accounts and persons involved.