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The suspect in the murder of criminal Strahinja Stojanović has been identified and an international arrest warrant has been issued against him, the Interior Ministry announced today. Stojanovic died eight days ago in a car explosion in Belgrade.
Writes: Milica Vojinović
A 50-year-old man is suspected of riding an electric bike from the apartment in Vracar to the underground garage in New Belgrade, where Stojanovic’s car was parked, and planted an improvised bomb under the driver’s seat, according to a police statement. . He remotely detonated the bomb around noon.
The police did not announce the suspect’s first and last name, but only the initials and year of birth, they said he was a 50-year-old ML. Criminal charges were filed against him, his apartment was searched, but he was at large and not was arrested.
It is suspected that he is hiding in another country, since in addition to Serbian, he has citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as a Croatian identity card, according to the High Prosecutor’s Office of Belgrade for KRIK. Because of that, an international arrest warrant was issued against him.
The prosecution also claims that the suspect has a residence address in Serbia, but has not been there since 2006.
“It was determined that the perpetrator of this criminal act used an explosive device that, in addition to explosive substances, also contained a certain amount of so-called metal coils.” the nuts used when installing the bolts, all in order to increase the destructive effect and the lethality of the bomb he used ”, says the spokeswoman for the prosecution Irena Bjelos for KRIK
The motive and possible connection with certain criminal structures will be determined during the investigation, added the Prosecutor’s Office.
Let us remind you that Strahinja Stojanović, 30, was killed when his BMW X5 exploded eight days ago. A Colombian citizen was in the car with him, who was slightly injured.
Stojanovic was convicted of various crimes. Thus, he was sentenced to just over two years in prison because in 2014 he shot a “point” from his car at the corner of Vojislava Ilića and Rimska streets in Belgrade. That same year, he was suspected of falsifying documents, but no proceedings were initiated against him because he paid 150,000 dinars for humanitarian purposes, according to documentation held by KRIK.
He was extradited from the Netherlands three years later after a court order was issued for him to serve a prison sentence for extortion.
Stojanovic has been linked to several liquidations, but has not been charged with any.
At the trial for the murders of Nikola Bojovic and Milos Vidakovic, one of the defendants claimed that Stojanovic ordered the murder of his godfather Vidakovic. He also said that he should have carried out a liquidation for the clan headed by Slobodan Sharanovic: kill Luka Djurovic, a man supposedly close to Luka Bojovic. Stojanovic’s DNA was found on a handgun, bulletproof vest and laptop in the apartment where members of Saranovic’s group were staying prior to Vidakovic’s murder, and it also appears in recordings and photographs taken by police at the time. However, the prosecution did not charge him, and he was a witness at the trial and said he knew nothing about the murder. Read more in a special story.
The media wrote that Stojanović is a suspect in the murder of Dragoslav’s lawyer, Mišo Ognjanović, who defended Luka Bojović and his associates for years. The lawyer was killed, according to the prosecution, in the war of the Kavač and Škaljar clan, which has been burning underground since 2014 and in which all criminal groups sided with one of the parties in conflict. Bojovic’s group is, among other things, the Skaljar clan’s strongest ally.
The prosecution has never officially confirmed speculation about Stojanović’s involvement in this murder, as the investigation is still ongoing.
In August 2018, a bomb was planted under Stojanović’s car. He was not in the car and his then girlfriend, a Spanish citizen, was injured.
Stojanovic’s father, Paja Stojanovic, was killed in Zemun in 2015, and his murder has yet to be solved.
Read more about the war between the Kavač and Škaljar clans here.
Take a look at the “Black Book”, the database of criminal settlements in Serbia and Montenegro.
