Serbian Embassy in Lisbon and the cocaine network – people close to Vučić directly linked to crime

Serbia's diplomatic mission in Portugal served as a safe haven for the storage of cocaine by the Montenegrin criminal clan.

At the time, the ambassador was Oliver Antic, one of the founders of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). This is not the first time that people close to Aleksandar Vučić and the ruling party have been linked to drug smuggling or use.

The news reported, referring to correspondence with Sky of the former mayor of Budva, Milo Bozovic from the Democratic Front, and his associate Ivan Mijatovic, accused of international cocaine smuggling, that the Serbian embassy in Lisbon served as a safe haven for their drugs.

"I have 7 minutes of free time, if we're going to fall in seven minutes to the free place, then let it go to hell. I'm taking the goods directly to the embassy and in case something happens, you know where it is. I'll give you a replacement ambassador," he wrote in the message sent by Skaj Mijatović to Božović, assuring him that he had a plan to remove 100 kilograms of cocaine from the MSC Fantasia ship.

Ambassador Oliver Antic

These are messages dating back to 2020, more precisely from the period when Oliver Antić, the founder of the ruling party, was the Serbian ambassador. This is about a man who has been in the public eye several times due to scandals, and who tragically lost his life on the Atlantic coast. Some claimed that he committed suicide, but his family denied these claims.

His name was linked to the "Indeksi" affair, which was related to the sale of exams and diplomas at the Faculty of Law in Kragujevac. At the time, there was talk of accepting bribes worth between 500 and 16,000 euros for the fixing of exams and diplomas at this faculty.

Also, a criminal complaint was previously filed against Antic that in the period from 2020 to 2021 he sexually abused his daughter, who was nine years old at the time, in his home in Belgrade, but the case remained unsolved due to his death in 2022.

The latest case with the Serbian embassy in Lisbon is another in a series of examples that the ruling party and the way it has contacts and connections with people from the criminal environment, and some of them from the close environment of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, were directly linked to drugs.

Driver Petar Filipović

Petar Filipović from Obrenovac was caught by police in late 2024 with 34 packages of heroin in a luxury car, Radar previously reported. This would have been just another in a series of such news if Filipović had not been seen as a member of President Vučić's security at the "Informer" party.

Just over two months after that event, Filipović was questioned at the premises of the High Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, and despite the fact that two months passed from the discovery of this case to the questioning of the suspect, no search or arrest warrant was issued for him.

The joint prosecutor for this case was Aleksandra Mrdović, who heard the suspect, but did not request detention. This act qualifies as possession of drugs for personal use, and in this case, Filipović is proposed a suspended sentence and mandatory drug addiction treatment.

However, this was no obstacle to Filipović being in Vučić's company at a party organized by the regime's newspaper.

Koluvija and Jovanjica

Of course, the most famous affair is the one that connects the marijuana plantation in Jovanjica to the top of the state and its security services. Despite the fact that it was unequivocally revealed that several members of the Serbian security services were directly involved in securing a private drug fortune, the owner Predrag Koluvija enjoyed the protection of President Vučić himself.

"First of all, that man spent two years in detention, there is no similar case of a man being in detention for two years for such a crime, and at the same time the reason is being sought why he is not still in detention. Very strange, you will agree, because he did not kill anyone, he did not have 10 tons of cocaine or something like that, but, as I understand it, a ton of marijuana, half of the environment, the Germans and others legalized it. Which he also denies having had at all. But spending two years in detention for something like that, obviously someone was afraid of what might be heard. We will see who those people are," Vucic said.

That Koluvija enjoys the protection not only of Vučić, but of the entire ruling group, became clear when the public saw that Koluvija chose Vladimir Đukanović as his protector.

In 2023, the Disciplinary Court of the Serbian Bar Association fined him for the interview Djukanovic had with Koluvija on his YouTube channel.

Predrag Koluvije. The Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime accuses him of being the organizer of a criminal group that produced and sold marijuana without authorization, and several criminal proceedings were combined against him.

Record seizure and seizure

The public in Serbia thought that Jovanjica was the largest seizure in this part of Europe, or at least in Serbia, however, progressive Rade Spasojevic, arrested in a major operation by the police and prosecution in the village of Konjuh in Kruševac, broke that record because the police found up to five tons of marijuana on his property for growing small cucumbers.

By the way, as the oppositionists from Kruševci discovered, Rade Spasojević is a close friend of Bratislava Gašić, a longtime associate of Aleksandar Vučić, and a minister in the Government of Serbia.

The prosecution then announced that investigations from August last year, when two tons of marijuana intended for further sale were seized in Zemun, are continuing. In addition to Spasojevic, police have also targeted Aleksandra Mijajlovic, Nebojsa Spasojevic, Ivan Dragnic and Uros Mladenovsaki.

In addition to narcotics, police also found weapons, including automatic rifles and hand-held rocket launchers.

President of Kumo, Nikola Petrovic

One of the most shocking examples is the case of Nikola Petrovic, the godfather of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who caused a traffic accident in March 2023, for which he will not be held responsible, while driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol.

Petrović then drove his expensive car, ignoring the mandatory stop sign, off the side road and crashed into the car with two people inside.

He was tested at the scene of the accident and was found to have more than 0.4 per thousand alcohol in his blood, as well as testing positive for cocaine.

However, experts later determined that the amount of alcohol was between 0.1 and 0.2, which is within normal limits, because the alcohol was in the resorption phase and it was not possible to determine the exact time of cocaine consumption, CINS reported.

Initially, a criminal case was filed against Petrovic, but this intention was later abandoned, so everything ended with a misdemeanor charge.

He was initially sentenced to 10,000 dinars, as well as 2 fines, which were overturned by the Court of Criminal Appeals. Since the procedure was not completed two years after the accident, the absolute statute of limitations began, so Petrović is a free man despite the accident, reports NOVA.

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