Lukšić: How does the prime minister of the country where Dragoslav Ilić lives feel?

Montenegrin Prime Minister Igor Lukšić announced that Nišlija Dragoslav Ilić, a cocaine boss from Argentina and the godfather of Sreten Jocić, also known as Joc Amsterdam, came to Montenegro from Belgrade, where he attended a concert by the South American star Šekira a few days ago.

Answering the question of how he felt as prime minister while drug lords roam freely in Montenegro, Lukšić answered:

"How does the prime minister of the country where that man lives feel? If I'm not mistaken, that gentleman came to Montenegro from Belgrade, where he enjoyed the concert of the South American star Šekira.

Also, I assume that he did not come to Montenegro from the sky, but arrived via one of the European airports. So it is not fair, by interpreting things like that, to stigmatize Montenegro. In a few months, we have certainly shown that we are successfully dealing with the challenge of organized crime," he said.

The Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that, as he says, the key to these successes is regional cooperation.

"I think it is already very clear that we in Montenegro have shown that we can carry all international obligations very easily. In that context, not in the case of that man who is in Montenegro, but anyone, the moment a legally viable need to react would arise, we would do it as we have done until now," he told reporters in " Miločer" where he attended the conference "Dialogue of Montenegro and the EU", organized by the National Council for European Integration.

After he recently managed to avoid arrest in Brazil, Ilic was filmed by the "Vijesti" team on the popular beach in Budva while he was sitting with several friends.

The man, who for many years has been considered one of the biggest Serbian drug lords in South America, as "Vijesti" was told by the police, can move freely in Montenegro, because there is no active warrant in the Interpol system, on the basis of which he could be arrested.

On the run from the Brazilian police?

Only ten days ago, the Serbian and Brazilian media filled the newspaper columns with descriptions of the "Niva" police action, in which thirty members of the international criminal group of cocaine smugglers organized by Goran Nešić, known as Ciga, were arrested, which smuggled more than a ton of narcotics to the European continent. Allegedly, Ilić was also supposed to be arrested at that time, but he managed to elude the Brazilian police.

According to "Blic", the Brazilian police established a connection between Nešić and Dragan Ilić's criminal group. Ilić, however, was not arrested, but the action allegedly yielded information about the criminal acts of his group. After the arrest of Nešić, Ilić was the only Serb left, who has excellent connections with the leaders of the local cocaine cartels, and who runs his business from Argentina, where he lives.

Ilić, who is known as a billionaire in Argentina, officially owns several casinos, restaurants, jewelers... He became known to the Serbian public in April 2004 when the Argentine police seized 171 kilograms of pure cocaine, destined for the European market, in the "White Vineyards" operation. .

The cocaine was stored on a ship that was supposed to sail to Spain and hidden in wine bottles.

Immediately after the seizure, an arrest operation followed, in which Ilic was handcuffed, as well as thirteen members of his group, among whom were Serbs Dragan Tršić and Filip Dragić, who in the meantime received British citizenship.

During the court proceedings, Ilic was granted house arrest, which he violated two years later by organizing a spectacular celebration of his wedding with a Venezuelan arm.

Although the judge approved a modest church wedding, Ilić organized a wedding in a luxury hotel, with two hundred guests who were entertained by Svetlana Ceca Ražnatović, Mira Škorić and Aca Lukas.

Photos from the wedding were then published in almost all Serbian newspapers, but also in the Argentine media, so the US Agency for Combating Drug Trafficking (DEA) reacted due to the violation of the agreement with the court, which filed a protest, and Ilic was sent back to prison by the judge's decision.

In the meantime, he found himself free again in Argentina, where he moved from the Netherlands in 2002, and is considered one of the strongest Serbian drug gangsters. His relationship with Sreten Jocić, which started in the Netherlands, continued all the following years - Jocić was first extradited to Serbia and accused of murdering Goran Marjanović, and then Ivo Pukanić.