On Wednesday, May 27, the Special Court in Belgrade extended the custody of Sreten Jocic, known as Joca Amsterdam, for another two months. He is suspected of the criminal offenses of criminal association and aggravated murder, that is, that in 2008 he organized a criminal group in Serbia and Croatia which, on his orders, killed Croatian journalist and businessman Ivo Pukanić on October 23 of that year. That group is suspected of having planted an explosive device in the parking lot in the yard of the "NCL Group" building in Zagreb and activated it at the moment when Pukanić was approaching his vehicle, as a result of which Nikola Franić, the head of marketing at "Nacional" was also killed. . The police and judicial authorities of Croatia submitted the evidence to the Serbian prosecutor's office.
Jocić denies his involvement in the murder of Pukanić.
His detention was extended due to the gravity of the crime and the amount of the punishment threatened by law - 30 to 40 years in prison.
Prior to this case, the District Court in Belgrade decided that Jocić was free on bail of 300.000 euros to defend himself against the accusation from 1996, in which it is claimed that in July 1995 he incited Miodrag Prodanović and Bojan Milosavljević to kill Goran Marjanović and his girlfriend Marije Djordjevic. An international warrant was issued for him in connection with that case in June 2001, and based on it, he was arrested in Bulgaria in the center of Sofia in the summer of 2002. At the time, Serbia and Montenegro submitted a request for extradition, but Jocić was extradited to the Netherlands in August 2002, and there he served the sentence to which he was previously sentenced. The Netherlands then extradited him to Serbia.
The Serbian special prosecutor recently announced the initiation of a financial investigation against Jocic, with the aim of confiscating property benefits acquired through criminal acts
