Organized crime

The regime and the mafia

15.May 2026. Philip Schwarm

The case of Veselin Milić: Corruption kills

What does the case of Veselin Milić say? How will it affect the MUP and the regime itself? What does the Jovanjica affair have to do with all of this? And why it is difficult to expect a significant fight against crime and corruption in the police

Criminal

24.march 2026 Daniel Donat/Viviane Menguez/Marcus Paul (DW)

Generation Z mobsters: Brutal, fearless and on social media

The new organized crime groups in Turkey, members of Generation Z, have a bad reputation for being particularly brutal, and are increasingly active in Germany as well. They brag about their misdeeds on social networks

Amendments to the Law on Public Prosecution

20.January 2026 B. B.

JTOK: The government wants to block investigations into organized crime and high corruption

The Collegium of the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime warned that the adoption of amendments to the proposed amendment to the Public Prosecutor's Law would mean a complete blocking of proceedings in the cases of the most dangerous organized criminal groups and high levels of corruption.

Justice

03.December 2025 Radmilo Marković

Coup d'état against the prosecution

In other countries, organized crime prosecutors are prosecuting various types of mafias, and some of these criminals are literally killing those prosecutors. However, in Serbia, prosecutors - and the entire prosecutor's office - are controlled by the government of the Republic of Serbia and its officials. This conclusion is not only drawn from recent events, but from 13 years of progressive "politics", which captured the state and its institutions a long time ago.

Organized crime

15.November 2025 KS

Serbia ranks fourth in Europe in terms of organized crime

Serbia ranks fourth in Europe in the Global Index of Organized Crime for 2025, and state actors play a key role in the landscape of organized crime, according to the authors of the new report

New issue of Vremena

18.September 2025 NS

Jovo Bakić: For elections with two lists - student and opposition

"Unfortunately, there are still people who have not learned from the 13 years of the rule of the criminal regime that it must change regardless of the disgust we feel towards some individuals or parties"

Criminal

31.January 2025 NR

SCREAM: Brother Vučić, Vučević and the great robbery of Novi Sad

How the SNS wings collaborated with criminals and "businessmen" in order to rob Novi Sad

Organized crime

22.January 2025 NR

Former head of Europol: Balkan mafia among the strongest in the world

They have good contacts, new routes for cocaine smuggling and are more professional than they were, former head of Europol, Finnish police officer Jari Liuku, told "Vreme" about the Balkan cartels.

Organized crime

22.October 2024 B. B.

KRIK: Criminals from Serbia sold phones for secret communication of the company "Sky"

The Canadian company "Sky", known for its secret communication application used by criminal groups around the world, hired Serbian criminals to sell "Sky" applications and phones in the Balkans

Politics and organized crime

17.September 2024 JH

"Spiegel": Albania as Eddie Rama's private narco-state

The West is courting Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, while his opponents accuse him of turning Albania into a drug state, corrupt to the core, writes the German weekly "Spiegel".

Drastic punishment

16.September 2024 IN THE

Croatian captain sentenced to 30 years in prison for cocaine smuggling in Turkey

Captain Marko Bekavac, a Croatian sailor, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in Turkey after 137 kilograms of cocaine were found on the ship he commanded.

Links between the state and crime

05.march 2024 KRIK

SCREAM: Nebojša Stefanović and Marko Parezanović helped the Šarić clan

According to KRIK, the convicted Darko Šarić was helped by people from the top of the government, Nebojša Stefanović and Marko Parezanović. After unsuccessfully campaigning with Judge Milimir Lukić, the Supreme Court expelled him from the panel that decided on Šarić's verdict

Elections, ID cards and wiretapping

24.January 2024 Slobodan Georgijev

Secrets of the identity of the president's brother

If people from the criminal milieu treat and mention Andrej Vučić and Zvonko Veselinović as their equals, is there any truth in what they are saying? Or the two criminals from Montenegro mentioned Aleksandar Vučić's brother just to spite him

Criminal history

17.January 2024 DW

Al Capone: Gangster who became a pop icon

This January 17 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of one of the most notorious gangsters of all time - Al Capone. He was immortalized in films such as "Scarface" or "The Untouchables"

Analyze

16.January 2024 Jelena Zoric

Koluvija opens new companies: Call Peđa for work

While the inspectors who arrested him for drug production have been dismissed from their positions and are threatened with liquidation, Predrag Koluvija is expanding his business. In November last year, he founded the company "Jovanjica Nova" doo registered for non-specialized wholesale trade

Organized crime

16.January 2024 BIRN

Police translator in custody for people smuggling

Alen Basil Dajub, a Serbian citizen of Syrian origin, was arrested in November last year. During the search of his house, the police found two unlicensed hunting carbines, a drone and a fake police uniform

Organized crime

15.January 2024 BIRN

Jovanjica: The court still hasn't decided whether 660 kilograms of cannabis is evidence

The Court of Appeal in Belgrade still has not decided on the selection of some of the key evidence from the "Jovanjica 1" case, including about 660 kilograms of dried cannabis. For this reason, not a single hearing has been held in that procedure for three and a half months

Organized crime

18.October 2023 BG

KRIK: Arrested for money laundering in France close to people from the authorities in Serbia

Branimir Vujović met on several occasions with the Secretary General of the Government Novak Nedić, and his business partner was Filip Bačević, the son of the former minister and ambassador of Serbia to China, Milan Bačević.

Organized crime

10.October 2023 BG

KRIK: Everyone knew about gendarme Vučković's connection with crime, but no one reacted

The information collected by the journalists reveals not only that Vučković led a group of criminals for years, but also that his colleagues from the police and prosecutors knew about it.

Organized crime

07.October 2023 Jelena Zoric

Son of "Serbian cocaine king" arrested in Brazil

Aleksandar Nešić, the son of the convicted drug dealer, the "Serbian king of cocaine" Goran Nešić Ciga, was arrested in Brazil on suspicion of smuggling cocaine and being the leader of a Balkan drug cartel.

GI-TOC research

06.October 2023 Jelena Zoric

In the new issue: Heroin, cocaine and the state apparatus

Serbia ranks third out of 44 countries on the European continent in terms of the prevalence of crime. Only Russia, which is in first place, and Ukraine, which is in second place, have worse positions than it, according to the index of organized crime for 2023 published by the Global Initiative to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).

GI-TOC research

04.October 2023 Jelena Zoric

Heroin, cocaine and the state apparatus

Serbia ranks third out of 44 countries on the European continent in terms of the prevalence of crime. Only Russia, which is in first place, and Ukraine, which is in second place, have worse positions than it, according to the index of organized crime for 2023 published by the Global Initiative to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).

Personal attitude

27.September 2023 Sasa Djordjevic

The breakthrough world of secret communication

Domestic and foreign courts hold in their hands the fate of the material obtained from the demolition of the Sky ECC device

Organized crime

27.September 2023 JH

Serbia ranks third in Europe in terms of criminal trends

Serbia shares third place with Italy in the list of European countries in terms of criminal trends from 2021 to 2023, the Global Initiative to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) announced.

Montenegro: Mafia tunnel and political passions

20.September 2023 Voislav Bulatović

Government crime scene trip

The most fascinating fact is that the tunnel was dug for more than a month in the very center of the city, where in a diameter of three hundred meters there are the buildings of the Assembly, the Government, the President, the premises of the High Court, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. This indicates a complete failure of all security services and of course the procedures for securing important state institutions. This very fact supports the thesis that the mafia conquered the entire marketing team of the Government of Montenegro

Criminal

14.September 2023 BG

In Serbia, between one and two and a half billion euros of laundered money

Serbia should submit its progress report this year. The country was on the gray list of the Interstate Body for the Control and Prevention of Money Laundering from February 2018 to June 2019.

Jovanjica: The biggest political, police and judicial scandal in Serbia

31.August 2023 Jelena Zoric

In the new issue: Power against law and justice

The removal of Slobodan Milenković and Dušan Mitić is pressure on the former before the announced testimony in court and revenge on the latter who testified about the involvement of the top military and civilian security services and the MUP in Jovanjica. The dismissal also halted the investigation, because Milenkovic submitted a written request to the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime to bring the investigation to an end "in connection with financing, logistics, distribution and support at the state level for the production of marijuana in Jovanjica" - the so-called Jovanjica 3. The dismissal is and the announcement of the worst attack on inspectors so far