How and why did Jezdimir Vasiljević, known as boss Jezda, buy a house in Dedinje, and then gave it to SDB and these to Joci Amsterdam. What connects this with the man suspected of killing Slavko Ćuruvia
When it was already certain that Sreten Jocić, better known as Joca Amsterdam, after serving a three-year prison sentence in the Netherlands, would be handed over to our authorities, inspector Jan de Wis arrived from the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands to visit the Special Department of the District Court in Belgrade in charge of suppression of organized crime (Special Court). Above all, the Dutchman was interested in whether Jocić would be convicted. Of course, there is no definite answer to such a question until the eventual process is concluded with a final verdict, but it would not surprise anyone, familiar with the case, to be acquitted due to lack of evidence or as a cooperating witness.
Sreten Jocić is suspected of hiring two police officers, Bojan Milosavljević and Nenad Dragišić, to kill a certain Goran Marjanović aka Goksi Bombaš, which they did on July 18, 1995, killing Bombaš's girlfriend Marija Đorđević in the Dambi cafe on Zvezdara. Jocić obtained and gave them two "hecklers" and a green car with Italian license plates, expressly mentioning that after the liquidation of Goran Marjanović, they would throw the weapons into the deepest water of the Danube. They did not receive the promised 25.000 marks from Jocic. With the same weapon, in cooperation with police officers Zoran Đorđević and Miodrag Prodanović, they committed robbery and stole 10.000 marks from the owner of the Kod Toma tavern, near the Golubac Fortress. Instead of deep water, they threw the "hacklers" into the shallows and tried to run away. The police caught them near Pozarevac and found the "hecklers" thrown. Experts determined that Goran Marjanović and Jelena Đorđević were killed with that weapon. Jocic allegedly hired the police to execute Marjanovic because he ostentatiously boasted that he would kill Jocic on the orders of the Montenegrin underground. He obviously didn't know what kind of player he was dealing with. A few days after the murder, Jocić left the Intercontinental Hotel together with his then-wife Babet and their little son, and traveled to an unknown destination. Since then, all traces of him were lost for some time.
At the trial of the accused four, the name of Sreten Jocic appeared in the indictment with the indication "unavailable". The district court in Belgrade issued a warrant for him for the criminal offense of incitement to murder, but it was withdrawn the next day, at least as the media reported.
CONNECTION: Villa in Augusta Cesarca, first in Jezdina,...
As the years passed, Sreten Jocic was written about more and more, mostly in foreign newspapers, as a king of cocaine, the biggest drug lord, a dangerous international terrorist, a suspect in 23 ordered murders, the killer of three policemen in various European countries, an escapee from a Dutch prison, to a large-scale criminal, the most famous Serbian drug dealer...
As reported in the European press, Jocic was wanted by eight countries (the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Greece, Canada, Thailand and the Republic of South Africa) on suspicion of having committed several serious crimes. And when the Belgrade judiciary hoped that Jocić would be imprisoned for years in a foreign country, an unpleasant surprise followed: he was handed over to the Serbian judiciary, that is, to the Special Department of the District Court in charge of combating organized crime. Why was he delivered to us in addition to so many countries that are looking for him for much more serious crimes than incitement to murder? "Unfortunately, they all dropped prosecution due to lack of evidence." The last ones were the Germans, who withdrew the request for extradition," replied Jan de Wis. And so the book suddenly fell on one of our letters. "We just needed to fight with Joc Amsterdam, as if we didn't have enough similar ones from the domestic fields," they argued in the Special Court.
The investigative procedure against Jocic for incitement to murder is conducted, one would say, under a particularly strict official secret that is strictly adhered to by the investigating judge, the prosecutor and Jocic's lawyer. It is only known that the defendant Jocić denied having anything to do with the murders of Goran Marjanović and his girlfriend. "It is unlikely that anyone will convict Jocic, since the two witnesses are not alive and that Zoran Đorđević, one of the participants in the robbery at the Kod Toma tavern, was questioned during the court process as a witness, and later changed his testimony given before the court. In the changed version, he claims that he lied to the jury in order to get himself out of trouble. However, his original testimony was thoroughly checked by the court and irrefutably found that every detail of his testimony was correct and supported by valid evidence. The court sentenced all actors, the four defendants, to prison terms, and the verdict was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Serbia. Sreten Jocić was unavailable all the time.
...then the service,...
For days in the Special Court, Sreten Jocić answers the questions of the investigating judge. One can only guess about the topics of conversation. "He's probably talking about something wider," says one of the investigating judges enigmatically, assuming that in ten days something from the investigation will be published.
Jocić no doubt had enough time to put his story together since he knew that he would be extradited to the Belgrade judiciary. In any case, a long and very exhausting investigative procedure is expected. Jocić, for example, would have to explain his "business cooperation" with the then SDB, of which he was a member at the time when this service was headed by Jovica Stanišić, in whose company he was often seen and had an identity card of our secret service. Which, after all, was also owned by a large number of evident criminals, starting from Surčin to Voždovac, whose boss was, as the media reported, Ljubiša Ljupče Bogosavljević, from Debe, otherwise in charge of controlling the Belgrade underground. What "control" means is needless to say. The fact is that at that time there were thirty murders that have not been solved even to this day, about which Jocić, as the leader of the team and the man credited with the speed of the trigger, should know everything. It is unlikely that he will say anything more about it. Or admit that he participated in them.
At that time, State Security had several houses where hired criminals - collaborators of the SDB - occasionally stayed when planning and assigning tasks that had to be done secretly. One of these houses was bought by Jezdimir Vasiljević aka Gazda Jezda with money earned from gullible depositors and he gave it to SDB. By the way, recently Jezdimir ran away, and that house, left as collateral, was confiscated by the state. However, as it is said in the Special Court, the house is not Yezda's at all, but the then SDB gave it to Joca Amsterdam. As we unofficially learn, Jocić's residence address is written in that very house - Augusta Cesarca 2/a in his identity card. According to the Belgrade press, at that time the most lively time in that villa was in the mid-nineties, and one of the frequent guests was Ljubiša Buha Čume, the leader of the powerful Surčina clan.
...and Sreten Jocic too
It is unlikely that Jocic will reveal anything about the mysterious murders, especially the names of the perpetrators, if he is asked about them. Since Ljubiša Ljupče Bogosavljević was a great friend of Jocić and the godfather of Novica Vulić, the commercial director of JAT at the time, who years before was the head of the JAT representative office in Cyprus at a time when huge amounts of money were being taken out of Serbia, perhaps Jocić would was asked if he knew anything about the money, as well as the murder of the former head of JAT, Žika Petrović. Or about the liquidation of his close friend Zoran Ristović Prika, whose body was discovered on July 4, 2001 in Košutnjak. He was killed by a shot in the head. By the way, after the war conflicts in which he participated in the units of Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović, Prika stayed for some time in Jocić's villa in Dedinje. During his ministry, Dušan Mihajlović claimed that Prik killed Slavko Ćuruvija with the usual remark that "we know everything, but we have no proof". Does Sreten Jocić know anything more about that? At that time, it was said about him in the Belgrade underground that he always followed the rule: dead mouths do not speak. Joca Amsterdam no doubt knows a lot, but it is hard to believe that his testimony will allow the police to start the investigation of many unsolved murders. First of all, it refers to the multitude of liquidations committed from 1995 to 2000.
"Jocic is here to be acquitted and it would not be strange at all if he received the status of a cooperating witness." "Would he be the only one to even confess to two or three murders," say lawyers familiar with Sreten Jocic's biography.
Who was Prika?
The public learned about Zoran Ristović Prika when the former Minister of Internal Affairs Dušan Mihajlović labeled him as one of the possible killers of Slavko Ćuruvija. Who was this man who after his death was rumored to have participated in other ordered and paid for liquidations? Goran Vuković, for example. Prika was less than twenty years old when he reported to the Krajina police in 1991. Impetuous, violent and without any scruples, he found his place in the Red Berets the very next year. Even if it is not true, the following legend describes his character well. Sometime in 1993 or 1995, Prika found himself in the wider security of Slobodan Milošević. In other words, he was on the lawn, in front of the building where Milosevic had some sort of meeting. At one point, someone asked to turn off the lawnmower because the sound was disturbing. When he failed to find an adequate button, Prika took out a gun and "silenced" the machine. Of course, there was a general alarm... He went to the scrubbing at Chief Prik's place with complete peace of mind. When his colleagues asked him how he did, he calmly replied: "He took ten percent off my salary, but I got juice and coffee for nothing."
As a companion of various leaders from the Red Berets, Prika often traveled around the Krajina. The last time he was in Knin was in 1995, just before the Storm, with Momir Gavrilović, a member of the State Security of the MUP of Serbia, who was killed after talking with the advisors of the then president of the FR Yugoslavia, Vojislav Koštunica. In certain military and police circles, Prika was also known for one particular passion: no one, not even himself, knew how many jeeps he stole from UNPROFOR in Bosnia and Krajina. His method was simple - he would approach the driver and take out a gun... Onizak, stocky, with a creepy look, seemed like a man who doesn't take out a weapon until he threatens.
As soon as the Special Operations Unit was formed, Prika became one of its members and lived in the style of a veteran of this formation. It's about Terevenkas with shooting and singing, where some people get beaten up, with a car trunk full of weapons and ammunition, a gun always on his belt... Prika was considered particularly awkward when he drank. After all, just like his commander Milorad Ulemek Legija or then a fellow soldier, and today protected witness Nenad Šare Škene.
According to certain reports, Prika was killed in an extremely cruel and brutal manner. His body was found several days after his death, almost decomposing, and it is said that a nylon bag was pulled over his head. The police then, as is usual in similar cases, announced that he had left the Unit (JSO) a little earlier at his own request. Two things can then be considered certain: first, no one has ever been charged with Prika's murder and, second, according to the stories about him, it turned out that he killed more people as a mere executioner than the SS division "Prince Eugen". And here comes Joce Amsterdam's main rule: dead mouths do not speak.
F. Š.
Supreme Court: Restitution of bail
A few days ago, the Supreme Court of Serbia annulled the decision of the District Court in Belgrade, which allocated 15.000 euros to the judicial budget due to the failure of Mirjana Marković, the widow of Slobodan Milošević, to respond to a summons, in the proceedings against her for abuse of position in the allocation of an apartment from the Serbian Government Fund to a nanny. her grandson, and not because of the murder of Ivan Stambolić, Slavko Ćuruvija or state cigarette smuggling, as the uninformed might think.
"Mirjana Marković could not be properly served with the summons, because she did not come to the country, and no one knows the address of her residence now." Thus, 15.000 euros could not even be taken away," said her legal representative Zdenko Tomanović.
And he was absolutely right, just as the president of the Supreme Court of Serbia, Vida Petrović-Škero, was right, interpreting that the guilty will be the "laymen" who will interpret that the money is being returned to Mirjana Marković, that is, to the SPS that took it ( they say: hardly any jedvice) collected. That money, she is right, will still remain in the District Court's account, but only until a new decision.
That money will be returned to the payer very soon, considering that - just like when the bail was accepted, in order to enable Marković to come to the funeral of her husband Slobodan Milošević - there will be no elements to take the bail now either. Namely, she is not there and no one knows her address except, as we have seen, CNN and possibly her lawyer, who himself belongs to the "nobody" category when it comes to her address. The court will not have any legal reason to deal with bail following the renewed order of the Supreme Court, but can only repeat - due to the defendant's non-appearance - the decision on custody and warrant for Mirjana Marković.
However, the court did not have the elements to cancel the detention and the warrant and accept the bail of 15.000 euros even on March 15, when it passed it: even then Mirjana Marković was not in the country and the summons for the upcoming main trial could not be served on her, nor was she in custody, which would be a prerequisite for setting bail at all.
This is how the wolf is fed up and the goats are outnumbered: the government allowed the widow to come to Serbia, and SPS, which the widow cheated and impoverished, will get back her hard-earned money. The shame that the government forced the District Court to do was legalistically corrected by the Supreme Court, shutting the malicious mouths of the laymen and returning to the socialists what they generously, as a short-term loan, wrung out of their pockets.
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