On an autumn evening, on October 13, 2016, Aleksandar Stanković (29), aka Sale Mutavi, was sitting in the studio apartment he was renting with his fiancee in the Belvil neighborhood of New Belgrade. For three years now, with the permission of the court, on as many as 12 occasions, he has been postponing his departure to serve a five-year prison sentence for dealing in drugs and illegal weapons. His plans for the future had nothing to do with what he would do when he got behind bars…
On the contrary, Stanković planned to travel even though the judicial authorities took away his travel documents as a convicted person. However, he crossed borders while waiting for his regular documents to be returned. After his death, it was discovered that he often used a fake BiH passport in the name of Tihomir Ždero, issued in New Sarajevo. A few hours before he was killed, Aleksandar Stanković wrote in his diary:
photo: branislav božić / beta photoT-shirt with the image of Aleksandar Stanković - Salet Mutavo worn by Partizan football players in a match a few days after his murder in October 2016.
Goals by the end of 2016:
– an apartment for Beka and me;
– getting the company back on its feet;
- 500 thousand euros to collect;
– case/passport to resolve;
– to lose weight to 100 kg;
– I should get a nice watch;
– steely, military discipline.
If you can still breathe, you are not working properly
Stanković then, with a will of steel and a bulletproof vest over his chest, went to training at the Spartanac fitness center, in Ulica gospodara Vučića, in Belgrade. He drove off in a standard car. His armored Audi remained parked in the underground garage of the building in Belleville. Inexperienced for a criminal who aspired to be the main drug dealer in Serbia - he ran out of gas.
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In the armored audio, as the weekly "Vreme" exclusively learns, Stanković also had a built-in police radio station. Speculations that it was the Service for the fight against drugs that provided Stanković with a radio connection in his car in order to be in contact with them while he was dealing narcotics have never been proven. This is not the only speculation when it comes to the relations between Salet Mutavo and the Service for the fight against drugs, which has powers at the republic level. It is suspected that police officers from that very department, armed with hecklers, were his bodyguards during the handover of drugs.
However, on October 13, 2016, there was only one bodyguard with Stanković, a guard in the Belgrade District Prison, Milorad Đurić, who worked part-time as a security guard for a drug dealer and the leader of the "Janičari" hooligan group.
photo: branislav božić / betaI REMEMBER EVERYTHING WELL: Salute to the murdered fan leader on Partizan basketball players' shirts in October 2016.
Along with Stanković, his friends Veljko Belivuk and Darko Ristić Meda were in the gym. Mutavi, Velja Nevolja and Meda became known to the public a few months earlier when they attacked the director of FC Partizan Miloš Vazura and his security. While Belivuk and Ristić were beating people in front of the JNA stadium, Mutavi mocked the entire system and showed his middle finger in front of the security camera.
Before Sale Mutavi left the gym, the last motivational messages written on the wall that he could read were: "If you can still breathe, you are not working properly" and "Rest when you die."
At the same time, killers swarmed and deployed around that place, preparing Saleta Mutava for a "fatal vacation".
A PLACE FOR MASOCHIST
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In that fitness center, where it says "Spartan, a place where masochists are united", in addition to Stanković, the then Minister of the Interior of Serbia, Nebojša Stefanović, also trained in those years, who in 2012 took journalists there to film him doing push-ups and hitting a truck. rubber. That recording is still on the Internet today, it is part of the official YouTube page of the Serbian Progressive Party. It was said that the former BIA and MUP employee Dijana Hrkalović, as well as the chief of staff of the Minister of Police, Ivan Ristić, trained at the "place for masochists". By the way, during Stefanović's ministry in the MUP, the trainer from Spartanc was promoted to liaison officer in Rome.
Aleksandar Stanković chose that gym as if out of spite - not only did he train in the same place with the top police at the time, but the premises of the fitness center are only a few meters away from the District Prison in Belgrade. It was as if he was saying that the "state drug dealer" is stronger than the state. However, he was not stronger than the mafia.
FATAL SLAP
He knew that he was in danger in the war between the "Kavački" and "Skaljar" clans, which had been raging for a year and a half. This leader of hooligans from the South Stand of FC Partizan sided with the "covens" led by the criminal from Kotor, Radoje Zvicer. And in those very days, before and after Stanković's murder, as later police investigations showed, Zwitzer walked around the Serbian capital as a free man.
The situation was different with the "skals" and their collaborators from the Luka Bojović clan. Namely, the rival clan constantly protested why Sale Mutavi procures cocaine at a much cheaper price than them. They even tried to smooth over the conflicts. A source from the weekly "Vreme" says that, a few weeks before the liquidation, Aleksandar Stanković and Filip Korać met in front of the "Izlog" cafe on 27. Marta Street. The meeting was allegedly arranged for them, on his territory, by one of the more dangerous heroin dealers in Serbia. The negotiations were a fiasco. Even political protection could no longer help Salet Mutava because he broke the mafia code at the meeting and slapped Filip Korac, Luka Bojović's right-hand man. With that, it is suspected, he mortally offended both the interlocutor and the host of the meeting. Several clans banded together and revenge was inevitable.
As soon as Stanković left the gym, at the corner of Bačvanska and Ulica gospodara Vučića, the air was cut by the sound of a whistle. It was the signal to start the attack. A black audio station wagon blocked the road and sixty bullets from two Kalashnikovs flew in the direction of the driver. His bodyguard Milorad Đurić managed to fire back with a shot before he was wounded, while the two monstrous men Veljko Belivuk and Darko Ristic hid behind the car and waited for the danger to pass.
The killers knew that the target was wearing body armor, so the bullets were fired exclusively at Stanković's head. The attackers fled on the highway and while the investigation was still going on, they reached the forest in the vicinity of Čačak, where they set the car on fire. Mutavo's bodyguard and prison guard was seriously wounded and transported to the Emergency Center. Only recently, police inspector Aleksandar Ljubičić said on Happy Television that he learned from his colleagues how the then high-ranking MUP official Dijana Hrkalović visited the wounded Đurić in the middle of the night and talked to him privately. That information remained unverified, given that no one investigated what the inspector said publicly.
After the mafia showdown, Milorad Đurić continued to work as a prison guard, and last year he was fired because he talked to a passer-by while he was on guard in front of the District Prison in Belgrade, and his bosses considered it inadmissible.
"SHE TOLD YOU TO GO BACK TO THE STACK! "
The police investigation is being done in order to reveal the evidence and clues that lead to the killers as soon as possible. However, the investigation after Stanković's murder was also done in order to hide some things. Namely, the investigation was allegedly attended by all the most prominent people of the MUP at the time: among others, the head of the Anti-Drug Service Radomir Popović, the head of the Belgrade Police Veselin Milić, the head of the intervention unit Tomislav Radovanović... One of them, according to eyewitnesses, then bloodied his hands while pulling out one of the three phones he had from the pocket of the murdered drug dealer. That phone was not tested.
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Another received a call from a powerful woman in the MUP at the time. Still holding the phone to his ear, he yelled, "Who's Bellywook?" When Bellywook responded, the command followed: "... she told you to go back to the pen!"
A series of illogical moves for the murder investigation continued even after the investigation. Less than a week after the homicide inspectors worked on the case and when they were already moving in the right direction, i.e. they discovered that the security cameras recorded the car with the killers on the highway, the object called "Spartan" was taken from them. And the riddled car in which Stanković was killed was taken by a spider from the parking lot in front of the police station on November 29.
The top of the Ministry of Internal Affairs decided that in the future the investigation of the murder of Salet Mutavo will be carried out by the Anti-Drug Service. As the weekly "Vreme" learns, since the investigation was completely ruined after a year, the "Spartan" case was forwarded to the Service for the Fight against Organized Crime. The case was never solved. In the following years, what was not solved by the police, was solved by the street. According to reports, most of those who in any way participated in Stanković's liquidation were killed or their killers are still on their heels.
WARS AGAINST THE MAFIA
The morning after the murder of Aleksandar Stanković, the then Minister of Police Nebojša Stefanoić declared war on the mafia. However, mafia confrontations, liquidations and corruption in the security system and the judiciary only exploded then. The overall impression was that the "Kavački clan" and their associates Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković were untouchable. The public was stunned that Velja Nevolja and Mare Mesar were acquitted of the murder of karate player Vlastimir Milošević, a case known as "murder on the rails". DNA traces and evidence magically disappeared, in the middle of the court process. Members and associates of the "Skaljar clan" were arrested and killed more often. As is the rule, the liquidated "skaljaris", immediately and at the time of the murder, were under police monitoring and wiretapping measures.
And then it was Ritopek's turn... While police officials were telling the citizens that they had never been safer and that the statistics of criminal murders were at a historic low, people were disappearing and being taken to the Velje and Mareta slaughterhouses in the middle of Belgrade.
The war against the mafia, declared after the murder of drug dealer Aleksandar Stanković, ended when the president of the country, Aleksandar Vučić, announced a new war against the mafia in October 2020. After that, the former close associates of Salet Mutavo, the leader of the "Principi" hooligan group, formed from "Janjičar", and the clan leaders, as well as members of the Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković clans, were arrested.
