The Kavački clan was behind the smuggling of 800 kilograms of cocaine seized on August 24, 2019, on the sailboat "Seascope" in the Atlantic Ocean, and since then they have been paying the skipper to remain silent.
The collection of cocaine in the port of Porto was supposed to be organized by members of a Slovenian cell and an organized criminal group, but the police officers overtook them and confiscated the expensive cargo.
This is written in the criminal complaint submitted by the Slovenian police to the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which "Vijesti" has access to.
The report includes 48 identified and several unidentified members of the clan, including Milan Vujotić from Podgorica with the Sky nickname Lavitese and the heads of the Slovenian group of kavačans Filip Vrzić (Drug, 10NO) and Klemen Kadivec (Tom Ford, Sandman).
Cocaine worth at least 50 million euros was then seized on a sailboat on which were Serbian citizen Vladislav Funstein, Russian citizen Sergej Rasokhin and Mexican Emanuel Alejandro Aceves Cuevas.
"On an unspecified day in August 2019, Kadivec ordered Darko Nevzatovic, who used the nickname Casper on the Sky app, to come to a meeting in Spain, in connection with an agreement to transport 800 kilograms of cocaine," the police files say.
It was clarified that Nevzatović was given the task of taking 20.000 euros from a man unknown to him, a member of the criminal group "Cobra", before leaving for Spain.
"Cobras are a criminal group made up of Albanian citizens, which operates in the coastal area. Nevzatović took 20.000 in cash from one of them, in Markovići, Koper, and took it to Spain, because supposedly the members of Klemen Kadivac's clan, who were there, were already short of money."
MEETING IN LLORET DE MAR
The investigators explain that Kadivec, Nevzatović, Vrzić, Slađan Petrović (Phanex) and Danijel Mišljenović, nicknamed Rossi, met in the city of Lloret de Mar on the Sky application.
The police officers discovered that the first topic of the meeting was the arrest of Dragan Todorović, the courier in charge of transporting drugs in Austria. Todorović, whose nickname on the Sky app was Mazda, was arrested on August 26 of that year in Austria, with 37 kilograms of marijuana.
"The meeting was called because of a detailed agreement regarding the transport of 800 kilograms of cocaine from the port of Porto to Barcelona, which is about 1.200 kilometers. It was specified that the skipper of the sailboat Vladislav Funštajn, with the crew and cocaine, will arrive in the port of Porto in a week. It was agreed that the entire amount would be transported at once, in a freighter with a flat load, driven by Mišljenović and Slavko Tešić (Oko). Slađan Petrović suggested that Mišljenović also ride with Tešić. Mišljenović was not satisfied with the assigned role, because he has experience in truck driving," the documentation says.
However, the top of the clan decided to be as they asked.
They also agreed that four cars would secure the truck with the expensive white powder.
“One would go directly in front of him, the other a little further forward, and two directly behind the truck. It is planned to unload 720 kilograms of cocaine in Barcelona, and 80 kilograms to be taken directly to Slovenia".
It is also written in the files that at the time of the meeting, Nevzatović did not have a reserved trip with legal cargo, nor accurate information on when the sailboat with cocaine would sail into the port of Porto.
THEY DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ARREST
When they met in Lloret de Mar, the Slovenian citizens did not know that their expensive cargo had already been seized the day before and that they were trying in vain to arrange who would take it and where further from the port.
"The transportation of 800 kilograms of cocaine was not carried out, because Vladislav Funštejn, with crew members, was arrested on the Atlantic, in the territorial waters of Portugal, southwest of the Azores Islands, for smuggling 799,59 kilograms of cocaine, on the sailboat 'Seascope'. It was established that the meeting in Lloret de Mar was organized after the arrest, but at that time the suspects did not yet know about the arrest made on August 24, 2019, at a distance of a few sailing days from the coast," the criminal report says.
However, after that, the criminal clan chose the option of paying an unspecified amount to Funstein, so that Serbian citizen would remain silent in front of the investigators about who he was smuggling 800 kilograms of cocaine for.
This follows from the minutes of the Slovenian police, made on May 27, 2020, in which it is written that the witness "Luka Arapović, whose Sky nickname is Dal, told that the organization under the leadership of Filip Vrzić is paying Vladislav Funštajn to remain silent about cocaine smuggling".
PERSONAL TRAINER RECRUITED FOR THE CLAN
In 2018 and 2019, during the implementation of secret investigative measures against Kadivac and other suspects, inspectors of the Criminal Police Sector of the Ljubljana Police Department also established that the Slovenian's personal fitness trainer was recruiting people for the clan.
"Uroš Jug, Kadivec's personal fitness trainer, asked the undercover investigator if he has a trusted person, who is a sailor or a skipper, adding that his friend from Domžal, who is currently in Spain (Kadivec), is looking for a person who would transport drugs from Peru or Panama to Spain. He also told him that this twenty-eight-year-old friend of his has excellent combinations in the drug business and that he is certainly the best in Europe," the report says.
The investigators explain that the criminal group under the leadership of Kadivac and Vrzic, in fact, hired Funštajn afterwards:
"Which, with crew members, was supposed to smuggle drugs from South America to Spain, but was arrested on August 24, 2019."
Their suspicion, along with the statement of the witness who admitted his guilt and told everything to the inspectors, is reinforced by the conversation between Jug and the undercover investigator, as well as Arapović's statement that Kladivec and Vrzić are paying Funštajn not to turn them in.
COCAINE PRINCIPLE
A few days after the seizure of 800 kilograms of cocaine on a sailboat operated by a Serbian citizen, Mirko and Dragan Đanković from Šid were arrested in Belgrade, suspected of having participated in that smuggling. Borislav Istijanović was also arrested.
At the time, the media reported that some packages of cocaine, which were hidden in specially made cavities of the sailboat, had a picture of Gavrilo Princip.
Not long after the arrest, some media reported that Vladislav Funštajn from Erdevik was the "mastermind" of the operation.
He, father and son Đanković and Istijanović are on trial in Belgrade, but the hearing was postponed for months.
According to the indictment, Đanković and Istijanović paid Funštajn and other members of the group money used to smuggle cocaine.
All three denied guilt, claiming that they had nothing to do with smuggling and that they sent the money because Funstein asked them to.
ACTION IN SLOVENIA
On May 14, the Slovenian police broke up the local cell of the Kavac criminal clan and suspected at least 60 people of smuggling drugs, weapons and illegally transferring the millions earned from that business from Spain to Belgrade.
The list of dozens of suspected members of that clan is dominated by citizens of Slovenia, and the report also includes citizens of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro.
Milan Vujotić (39) from Podgorica, Lavitese, is the fourth on the list of suspects, and the local authorities accuse him of having agreed with Filip Vrzić (2018) in 36 to establish a branch of the Kvak clan in Slovenia, as well as of procuring drugs for them, which they further spread throughout Europe.
In the document that "Vijesti" has access to, it is written that Vujotić supplied them with cocaine for the first time in December 2018, and that the delivery, which arrived in Slovenia from the Spanish resort of Lloret del Mar, was supervised by the head of that group, Filip Vrzić. aka Drug and 10NO.
It was explained that after that Klemen Kadivec gave orders for further transport.
The Slovenian police explain that they collected evidence against the members of that criminal group through classic work, but also through covert investigative methods, including a secret drug trafficking operation.
Among the many pieces of evidence, there are allegedly means for packing and counting money, surveillance camera footage, confiscated mobile phones in which members of the criminal group left a lot of evidence, as well as DNA from all confiscated items.
In that investigation, the Slovenian police cooperated with colleagues from Norway, Germany, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Serbia, Austria and the Netherlands.
According to the files, the special prosecutors suspect Klemen Kadivec, Luka Arapovic, Drejc Kovac, Blaž Kadivec, Danijel Mišljenović, Uroš Inglić, Igor Popović, Stojan Babić, Srđan Petrović, Elvis Kolenović, Nenad Tabaković, Dalibor Kožul, Danko Vukojević, Željko Hrkalović, Alen Bajc. and Miloš Joksimović that they were with Filip Vrzić, Darko Nevzatović, Marko Škrebec, Vujotić, Slađan Petrović, Miloš Miljković, Mario Budimir, Slavko Tešić, Radenko Vučenović, Marko Plavšić, Radoslav Tepavac, Marko Stefanović, Stefan Stojanović, Vasilij Aleksić, Kosto Tabaković, Josip Skok, Niko Škrebec, Hrvoj Krstanović, David Filip Brzović and unknown persons whose nicknames on the "Sky" application are Notorius Big, *****, Majstor, Home or Lusy, Jorgić, Triple XXX, Wolfi, Matan, Mr. Nice, Rocky new Tesla, Bale new, Lucbek, Bari, Lion new, Zio II, Corsco, Jare, Gonzales, Bolt, Centurion"... smuggled drugs, weapons and transferred dirty money from Spain to Serbia.
That criminal group is suspected of smuggling at least 790 kilograms of cocaine, 2,249 kilograms of hemp, 96 kilograms of hashish, 10 kilograms of heroin, 30 liters of amphetamine base, and the smuggling of several million euros earned from drug sales.
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