Strax, Jos Leijdekkers and Edin Gacanin are from the same town Breda.

Thanks to the hack of SKY we see so many connections all over Europe.

‘The Bosnian’ (46), Taghi’s financial man, extradited by Serbia | Interior
Thursday 20th April 2023 07:50 AM

The Public Prosecution Service has managed to bring back Boris P. from the circle around Ridouan Taghi to the Netherlands. The 46-year-old criminal was extradited from Serbia on Thursday and will be arraigned in Rotterdam on Friday.

Boris P. had emigrated to Montenegro, but was arrested when he made a trip to Serbia. P. was nicknamed the Bosnian among accomplices. He is suspected of international trafficking in large quantities of cocaine. Justice sees him as ‘CEO of the violence and finance divisions’ of the mocro mafia. The Public Prosecution Service got his eye on him through cracked chat messages.

According to the judiciary, P. looked after the store in the Netherlands, while Taghi and other leaders ran the business from abroad. “He ensured that the revenue model of the criminal organization was maintained, checked whether drug transports took place and possibly also provided violent assignments,” said spokesperson Wim de Bruin last year. The entire top of the gang has now been arrested: Taghi was arrested in Dubai , Saïd Razzouki was later arrested in Colombia, Greg F. in Curaçao and Jaoud F. in Morocco.

The Bosnian was arrested in May last year, but it took almost a year to bring him back to the Netherlands. He flew to Schiphol on a scheduled flight, under the guidance of the Marechaussee.

In the meantime, according to the OM, his place in the criminal organization has been taken by a 40-year-old man from De Meern, who was arrested last March 28. That man would be a criminal relation of P..

Dutch police help arrest former Pink Panther leader
May 12, 2023

The Dutch police cooperated in an international action in the Balkans against a large organized crime organization. One of those arrested was a former leader of the 'Pink Panthers'.

The European police organization Europol claims that with the raids and arrests in this case last Thursday, the largest drug organization in this region has been killed.

A total of 23 suspects were arrested. Earlier, in 2021, seven members of the group were already arrested in Belgium. Two people had already been arrested in connection with other crimes in Serbia and Peru. On May 8, a suspect was arrested in the Netherlands. Three of the arrested suspects are said to be leaders of the organization.

Explosives
35 house searches were carried out. Fifteen luxury cars were seized, expensive jewelery and watches worth an estimated two million euros, and nearly three million euros in cash. Police found two sniper rifles, three automatic rifles, firearms, silencers, detonators, remote controls for explosives, packs of explosives, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

The action is the result of the police hack into the encrypted message server Sky ECC. The Dutch police helped to find the organization's Serbian king pins. The organization is said to be behind the smuggling of thousands of kilos of cocaine from South America and West Africa to Europe. Of this, 700 kilos could be traced to a seizure in the port of Rotterdam, 1.2 tons in Hasselt in Belgium, and 5000 kilos in Aruba.

Pink Panthers
The gang is known in the criminal world for its use of violence and involvement in high-profile robberies. One of the leaders, according to Europol, was a former leader of the Pink Panther criminal group. They would be responsible, among other things, for the jewelry robbery at the TEFAF fair in Limburg in 2022.

Colombia cops search for Serbian drug trafficker who escaped immigration custody at airport after asking to buy water, then accomplices whisked him away amid shootout

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...escaped-immigration-custody-airport.html

Influential Bulgarian mafia boss killed in South Africa
By Krassen Nikolov | EURACTIV.bg

Est. 3min 26 mei 2023 (updated: 26 mei 2023)
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The South African police published information that they found the bodies of four people – two men and two women, “who are believed to be of Bulgarian origin” in Kamenov’s house. [Shutterstock/Arisha Ray Singh]

A notorious figure of the Bulgarian criminal underground, Krasimir Kamenov, nicknamed Karo, and his wife were killed in a bloody massacre in Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday, sources confirmed to EURACTIV on Thursday.

Karo was known as part of the former Bulgarian criminal group VIS-2, which had enormous economic and political power before Bulgaria became a member of the EU in 2007.

In addition to Kamenov and his wife, their two housemaids were also shot during the attack. The three children of the Bulgarian crime boss survived because they were at school at the time of the attack.

Kamenov was wanted with a red notice by Interpol due to suspected involvement in the murder of the Bulgarian criminal police’s former boss, Lubomir Ivanov, in early 2022.

The South African police published information that they found the bodies of four people – two men and two women, “who are believed to be of Bulgarian origin” in Kamenov’s house. The four were shot dead, and the Bulgarian special services unofficially confirmed Kamenov was killed. The bodies were found in a Cape Town suburb at around 8.20 am local time on Thursday.

The shooting of Kamenov takes place as Sofia is undergoing a huge political shakeup after it was announced that long-term political rivals, the GERB party of long-serving Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria joined forces to lead the new government together.

“We are going back to gangster times,” Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev said after the news of Kamenov’s murder.

Geshev is expected to be the first victim since the formation of the new coalition after the head of the prosecution was accused of illegally recording a colleague in the Supreme Judicial Council. Just a month and a half ago, Geshev named Kamenov his shadow enemy and suspected him of participating in a group to discredit the Prosecutor General and the Prosecutor’s Office. Two weeks later, an explosion occurred near Geshev’s car, but he did not name Kamenov as the suspect.

Kamenov was known as the owner of a large fruit and vegetable market in Sofia. Large quantities of cocaine were found at the market several times in recent years, but there is no public information that Kamenov was associated with these drugs.

Under the leadership of former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, about three and half years ago, the Commission stopped monitoring Bulgaria under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism.

It decided that the poorest EU country had solved its old problems with organised crime, turning a blind eye to the lack of results in the fight against corruption at the highest level.,

Bulgaria is now pushing to enter the visa-free Schengen zone, but the Netherlands insists the Commission renews such monitoring.

(Krassen Nikolov | EURACTIV.bg)

https://www.euractiv.com/section/po...arian-mafia-boss-killed-in-south-africa/

Crime boss linked to missing OneCoin scammer Ruja Ignatova shot dead

A Bulgarian mobster gunned down in South Africa may have been about to reveal more details about the disappearance of so-called ‘Crypto Queen’ and OneCoin scammer Ruja Ignatova.

https://cryptonews.net/news/other/21096573/

Ruja Ignatova is a Bulgarian-German convicted fraudster. She is best known as the founder of a ponzi scheme known as OneCoin, which has been described by The Times as "one of the biggest scams in history". Since last summer, the woman has been on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list.

Mirza Ga?anin, believed to be in top of the Tito and Dino drug cartel has been arrested in Spain he is Edin's uncle.

Mirza Ga?anin was on the run , he was sentenced in Netherlands to 4 years for laundering millions of money , also assets worth 2.3 million euros were sized from Breda in Netherlands.

Criminal arrested in Spain from Breda fled 'for fear of being stabbed to death'
According to his lawyer Louis de Leon, Mirza G. is not on the run from his prison sentence, but from Edin G. to whom the police link him. Mirza G. would not have been on good terms with his nephew for 20 years. Three years ago he even filed a report against him because of a failed attempt to liquidate him.

U.S. Sanctions Narco Boss from Bosnia and Herzegovina

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/17431-u-s-sanctions-narco-boss-from-bosnia-and-herzegovina

Moscow is reaping the benefits of Bulgaria’s faltering anti-corruption fight

https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/06...ulgarias-faltering-anti-corruption-fight

How the 'good' Serge Miranovic became a pivot in the Amsterdam underworld
From the edition of Wednesday, July 19, 2023: In 2006, a liquidation is carried out on Serge Miranovic, the Yugoslav gangster who, according to sources, was the most handsome gangster who ever walked around in the Netherlands. Miranovic managed to grow into a pivot in the Amsterdam underworld in record time. How? And who did he do that with? And why did he have to die anyway? A portrait.

https://panorama.nl/artikel/499694/...-spil-werd-in-de-amsterdamse-onderwereld

Strax translate the article to english it's pretty good and shows how the Yugo's and Dutch Penoze are intertwined there is much more but a good start.

It is pretty good and detailed article , i thought Holleeder was sentenced for murder , Milos-Bata Petrovic was sentenced to 15 years for Serge's murder.

Interesting, Holleeder was arrested in his cell for the murder, but he was never officially charged, however witnesses stated that Holleeder, Maruf 'Paja' M. and Luka B. had a festive gathering in a restaurant in The Hague after the murder of Miranovic.

Luka B. is Luka Bojovic if u didn't know , one of biggest organized crime players in the Balkans , if not the biggest.

I don't know much about him but he was very close to Holleeder in the feud with Joca Jocic. Former member of Arkan Tigers I believe. In December he arrived back home after ten years spent in prison in Spain.
Is the Zemun clan still active? Because in recent years Bojovic has been linked directly to the Škaljar clan.

Edin Gacanin on the other hand previously protected the leader of the Kavac clan, Radoj Zvicer.

His criminal group associated with the blacksmith clan did not only trade drugs, they also committed other crimes, theft, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping and murder. The Colombian police even have evidence that they bought and sold soccer players around the world, in order to funnel money earned from cocaine into legal channels. It was this activity that helped the investigators, because the trail of money from the sale of players was followed - the Spanish Abc.es reported, without specifying which football transfers were involved.

Yes, he was/is very well connected with important players in Netherlands. Zemun clan is not active anymore , last members were arrested in Spain together with Luka Bojovic. Filip Korac who is his right hand basically is very close to Skaljarski clan.

'Undercover German police officer tortured and murdered in Spain'
October 8, 2023

An undercover German police officer was tortured and murdered on Spain's Costa del Sol in the summer of last year. According to research by WDR and NDR, the 33-year-old Serb was an undercover police officer in Hesse, who was used to infiltrate drug networks.

Cannabis and cocaine
The police in Hesse are said to have specifically deployed the Serb to investigate an international drug network that allegedly traded cannabis, cocaine and other drugs on a large scale. The information provided by the murdered police informant is said to have already been processed in various investigations.

Holiday home
The life of undercover agent Aleksandar K. ended on a chair in a holiday apartment in the southern Spanish city of Marbella. With a plastic bag over his head and his hands and feet tied, the Serb is said to have been tortured for days before being shot twice in the head.

German residence permit
On June 30, 2022, a day after the murder, the landlord discovered the body. It took the Spanish police some time to identify the dead man. He had no identity papers with him, but a German residence permit was reportedly found in the apartment in the holiday complex.

Drug trafficking
According to research by WDR and NDR, the Serb worked as an informant for the police in Hesse. Aleksandar K., who last lived in Offenbach in Hesse, is said to have been involved in the drug trafficking of a European network and had to provide information about the activities of the drug gangs on behalf of the police in Hesse.

Intercepted communications
It is still unclear why K. was murdered on the Costa del Sol last year. The Serb may have been exposed before his murder. The police in Hesse are now said to have evidence, including from intercepted telephone conversations, that K. allegedly confessed to his murderers under torture that he had worked as an informant for the German police.

Convicted lawyer
The undercover agent also played a role in the trial of Frankfurt lawyer Benjamin D., who was sentenced to seven years and nine months in prison by the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court in July for drug trafficking and money laundering.

The court found it proven that the 46-year-old lawyer had helped organize drug transport from Spain to the Rhine-Main area. D., together with other suspects, is said to have set up a kind of shipping company with which drugs, especially cannabis, were smuggled from the region around Barcelona to Germany.

“Ignacio Varga”
Benjamin D. is said to have carried out the drug transports mainly via encrypted EncroChat messages. There he called himself “Ignacio Varga”, after a criminal character from the American crime series Better Call Saul. D. made an extensive confession in court, reporting on his cocaine addiction and heavy alcohol use, and how he became increasingly involved in the criminal environment from 2018 onwards.

D. regularly provided legal advice to drug dealers and acted as an intermediary between the smugglers. One of his contacts is said to have been undercover agent Aleksandar K.

The German authorities do not want to comment on the case to WDR and NDR. It remains unclear whether and how the police in Hesse used the Serb shortly before his death. The Hanau Public Prosecution Service is investigating the murder.

Montenegrin drug clans
According to reports in the Spanish media, the criminal investigation initially pointed to a drug war that has been raging for years between two rival families from Kotor (Montenegro). Several assassination attempts in Spain, the Balkans, Turkey, the Netherlands and other countries are said to have been carried out by these drug cartels, which are fighting with extreme brutality for their position in the European cocaine market. Aleksandar K. may have fallen victim to that rivalry and been exposed as a police informant before his death.

Fugitive
Several suspects who allegedly first tortured and then shot dead Aleksandar K. were identified through forensic investigations at the crime scene, fingerprints and recordings from the resort's surveillance cameras. Spanish and German authorities assume that at least one suspect is a member of an outlaw motorcycle club. The suspects are on the run.

Concern
The use of informants by the German police is currently a thorny issue for the federal government. According to the wishes of the Federal Ministry of Justice, led by the German Federal Police, the use of recruited and often paid informants should be better regulated by law through clear guidelines.

A preliminary report of a new law regulating the use of undercover agents and confidential counselors was sent to the federal Ministry of the Interior in July.

'Undercover German police officer tortured and murdered in Spain' added by – onOctober 8, 2023

Branislav Brano Micunovic: Shadowy Montenegrin Power Boss With Reputation for Impunity
BIRNNovember 17, 202315:11
The businessman blacklisted by the US for corruption on Thursday has had a notorious reputation in his home country for decades – where he has also appeared untouchable.
Despite decades-long accusations of ties to organised crime, Montenegrin businessman Branislav Brano Micunovic was only officially mentioned as a leading organised crime figure for the first time on Thursday, when the US Treasury Department blacklisted him.

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/11/1...power-boss-with-reputation-for-impunity/