Editor’s Note: See also Bosnia to extradite major suspected Balkan tobacco-smuggler. (2012)
From: The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
Serbian Businessman With Organized Crime Ties to Profit Big in Airport Deal
Stanko Subotic, a businessman twice indicted for cigarette smuggling and known for his links to an alleged drug lord, is set to make millions from the expansion of Belgrade’s airport.
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Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla airport. (Photo: KRIK)
The planned buying spree will likely mean money in the bank for Subotic, whose friends and business associates include accused Balkan drug trafficker Darko Saric and Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, who was indicted in Italy for large-scale cigarette smuggling in 2008 but never prosecuted because he had diplomatic immunity.
Past allegations against Subotic himself include two indictments for cigarette smuggling. He was acquitted on some charges and released on others after the statute of limitations lapsed.
