A Serbian former football player was recently arrested in Amsterdam in an international investigation into cocaine trafficking. It concerns Dusan Petkovic, the son of the former national coach of the Serbia national football team Ilija Petkovic. He was arrested for allegedly being involved in cocaine smuggling. The arrest was part of a police operation against a Montenegrin clan from Vracar, a town near Belgrade.

The investigation is being carried out by a special branch of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Serbia, which deals with organized crime. A total of eight people were arrested and a total of 115 kilos of cocaine was seized.

Between 1992 and 2007, Dusan Petkovic played for VfL Wolfsburg, 1. FC Nürnberg, Spartak Moscow and RCD Mallorca, among others. His father Iljia Petkovic, who died in 2020, played in the 1974 World Championship in Germany for the Yugoslavia national team. Between 2003 and 2006 he was national coach of Serbia.

It is suspected that the members of this criminal organization had large quantities of cocaine transported from South America to the port of Rotterdam.