WOUNDED, SO IT WAS REVEALED NOT TO BE "KOVAČEVIĆ", BUT "THE ARKAN SLAYER": Dobrosav Gavrić
"The person who was arrested in Johannesburg was released on bail," Tanjug reports the words of Police Minister Ivica Dacic to journalists at the Belgrade "Aero Club".
He added that in the meantime, the MUP has forwarded to the Johannesburg police all the necessary elements for establishing identities, but that no feedback has been received yet.
Dacic suspects that someone published the information about Garić's arrest on purpose in order to warn him that he is not safe and that he should run away again or hide.
The newspaper "Blic" announced on Saturday, December 17 that the Belgrade police are verifying the information that in a Belgrade tavern a group of persons previously known to the police celebrated the murder of Dobrosav Gavrić. That news did not turn out to be true because on Thursday, December 22, the Serbian police were informed by phone that the identity of Dobrosav Gavrić had been confirmed, as well as that he had been arrested in South Africa.
Dobrosav Gavrić, convicted of the murder of Željko Ražnatović Arkan, was arrested in the Republic of South Africa, Reuters Africa reports. The local Cape Town newspaper "The New Age" writes that Garić's identity was revealed during the police investigation into the organized crime-related murder of Cyril Beek from Cape Town in March this year.
Kiril Bika was the owner of several insurance agencies, one of which is called Red Security. Some media call Kirill Biko "night club security boss". He is also known for the fact that he attacked a suspect in court with an armed attack for wounding his men. Kirill Biko was killed in March of this year by two assailants on motorcycles.
The newspaper "New Age" writes that Bika is a 49-year-old mafia boss, and that those who shot him are professional killers. The first shot hit Biko in the eye, and five others in the head.
"NIGHT CLUB SECURITY BOSS" KILLED: Kiril Bika
The wounds are grouped in such a way that they speak of extremely good shooters, especially if they shot from a moving motorcycle.
Gavrić, who was driving Biko's BMW X5, was shot in the chest and wounded. He lost control of the car, which hit the fence next to the exit.
The police thought that the driver of Kirila Bika was called Saša Kovačević. His real identity was only revealed when the police launched an investigation into him.
Namely, after the shooting in which Gavrić was injured, cocaine was found in his possession. According to the "New Age" newspaper, the case refers to the activity of "an Eastern European criminal syndicate based in the Balkans, led by the Serbian mafia."
A later check established that "Kovačević" is actually a fugitive from Serbia, Dobrosav Gavrić, who fled his country after being convicted of murdering Arkan, the commander of a unit that, the paper informs its readers, was feared by many during the time of Slobodan Milošević, and whose real name is Željko Ražnatović.
INSIGHT AFTER THE MURDER OF ARKAN: Interkoninental, Belgrade, January 15, 2000.
The newspaper "New Age" wrote on December 14 that Gavrić, who is known in South Africa as Arkan's killer ("The Arkan Slayer"), was charged with possession of cocaine and will be heard in Cape Town next month. "New Age" learned that his fingerprints have been sent to Interpol for identification and are awaiting confirmation, after which the Serbian authorities will send a request for extradition to serve the sentence.
In 2006, Dobrosav Gavrić aka Duka was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of Željko Ražnatović Arkan on January 15, 2000, and his accomplices Milan Đuričić and Dragan Nikolić Gagi were sentenced to 30 years each.
In addition to Arkan, his friends Milenko Mandić Manda and Dragan Garić Garo, a former employee of the federal MUP, were killed in "Intercontinental".
Gavrić's trial took place with unprecedented police security, 70 witnesses were heard, among whom the attention of the public was particularly attracted by former high-ranking police officials Rade Marković, Dragan Ilić, Miodrag Gutić, Vojislav Jekić, as well as people whose names usually have the designation businessman added to them.
Almost all the suspects connected with the murder of Arkan on January 15, 2000 in "Intercontinental" are from Loznica.
Dobrosav Gavrić and Milan Đuričić did not appear at the sentencing in the District Court in Belgrade, because they fled Serbia, and an international warrant was issued for them.
Three police officers were convicted. Gavrić was a suspended member of the MUP of Serbia, while former Loznica police chief Vojislav Jekić, who was long known as a key witness, was killed in Belgrade in April 2006, a few months before the verdict was handed down, and his killers were not discovered.
As Vreme wrote in the report from the trial on March 15, 2001, "from Jekić's voluminous testimony, in short, it follows that he learned the following from Đuričić: Rade Marković, as the head of the Serbian DB, initiated Arkan's liquidation and left the organization of the execution to Andrija Drašković as to a long-term external associate of DB, who hired Dobrosav Gavrić, Drago Nikolić Gagi (on the run) and Milan Đuričić to commit murder. However, during the shooting at the Intercontinental, Arkan's bodyguard wounded Gavrić, who was then taken by Đuričić and Nikolić to Loznica so that he could receive medical help in the hospital."
The background of the murder of Ž. R. Arkana has not been dismissed so far. Judge Dragoljub Đorđević spoke directly about this when pronouncing the verdict: "The panel is aware that this verdict did not fully clarify the event at "Intercontinental", that is, that the order was not revealed. Also, it remained unclear what the motive for the murder was. It is obvious that we are talking about some kind of reward, something that someone promised to someone... However, we tried based on the indictment, and the indictment did not even ask for more than what was done..."
