Hot pursuit trail after Pukanic’s assassins causes mafia unrest

Investigation over murder of Ivo Pukanic and the arrest of seven suspects seriously imperiled security of Serbia President Boris Tadic and several other top officials of security-police services who ordered arrest of Sreten Jocic, the prime suspect.

Jocic is charged with organization of the assassination in Zagreb. He is believed to have paid EUR 1.5 millions to professional killer Zeljko Milovanovic and his associates in logistics. ‘Blic’ source from Serbia Home Ministry claims that the threats followed Jocic’s arrest and came from his closest associates.
‘Sreten Jocic is a head of the strongest criminal organization in Serbia’, our source says.
The decision over his arrest was made three days before the special police forces broke into a villa which Jocic rented and after the energy summit in Sofia held on April 23 attended by presidents of Croatia and Serbia, Stjepan Mesic and Boris Tadic.
As claimed by Ratko Knezevic it was then when ‘Mesic informed Tadic about indications on potential threat to Serbia President’s security learned during investigation over Pukanic’s murder’. In his interview with ‘Blic’ Knezevic accused the tobacco mafia for Pukanic’s murder and also said that the money from cigarette smuggling ended at bank accounts of Stanko Subotic and Milo Djukanovic.
Six days after Jocic’s arrest the police managed to trace Zeljko Milovanovic believed to have planted the explosive device at a parking lot of ‘Nacional’ in Zagreb on October 23 last year.
It is interesting that threats continued arriving even after Milovanovic’s arrest.
In recent week in his interviews with the ‘Vijesti’ daily and ‘Blic’ daily, Ratko Knezevic, Godfather of Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic spoke about ‘army wing of the tobacco cartel, the desperados ready to kill for little money’ and ‘the death cabinet that is in session in Podgorica’.