The Slovenian cell of the Kavac criminal clan in Slovakia bought weapons, which it resold to other criminal organizations and paid in cocaine or heroin.
They were supplied with automatic and semi-automatic weapons by a citizen of Serbia, who, from house arrest, organized the handing over of the pistol to the gangsters, and they then smuggled it across the borders of the European Union states, as well as into Serbia, it is written in the criminal report that the Police of Slovenia submitted to the Special State Prosecutor's Office there against more than a dozen members of the Kavac clan.
At the end of May 2019, they also supplied weapons to an older Montenegrin, with a thinner build, in Belgrade.
In the capital of Serbia, he allegedly waited for them with Filip Vzrić and took over seven "scorpions" - for testing.
Vrzić drove him in his "BMW X5", it is written in the documents of the Slovenian police.
Criminals were supplied with "Glock", "CZ" pistols, and on several occasions with "scorpions".
In May 2020, Vrzić allegedly ordered his associates to smuggle two sniper rifles to the Netherlands, and then pistols to Serbia.
The Slovenian police, with the help of colleagues from other countries, tracked down people who bought weapons for the clan, using forged documents and permits to carry weapons. They did this even though all the seized guns had serial numbers stamped on them, and they were assembled from several weapons of the same manufacturer.
They were also helped in the investigation by representatives of EUROPOL, through whom they obtained data from the weapons manufacturer for each item to which store it was delivered, and through them they reached the customers.
They also found that the peculiarity of several pistols that ended up in the hands of clan members operating in Slovenia was that they had orange barrels.
The Slovenian police allegedly discovered in which crimes the weapons supplied by the gangs were used, and some pistols were also seized from their members.
WING THE GOODS IN THE CABIN
The criminal complaint states that the couriers hid the pistols in the cab of the truck, in a metal bed box.
In this way, they transported them from the "supplier" in Slovakia to the customers in the Netherlands, Slovenia and Serbia.
"Criminal association led by Filip Vrzić, whose nicknames on the Sky app are Drug i 10NO, in addition to the regular smuggling of various types of drugs, also engaged in the smuggling of weapons, mainly semi-automatic and automatic pistols. Vrzić and Klemen Kadivec who used Sky nicknames Tom Ford, Sand Man and...
Vrzić bought illegal weapons in Bratislava from a Serbian citizen who was under house arrest at the time. According to his instructions, the weapon was delivered by an unidentified man," the report says.
It was explained that the man handed over the weapon to them in the Ružinov district of Bratislava, at Ivanska cesta 5900/30.
"The handover was done so that the courier is the truck driver Mario Budimir called JSK waited at that address, and a member of the association Mali or Mirko with the nickname Sky Home or Lusy, he took weapons from the supplier or a person associated with him and handed them over to the courier Budimir, who continued to carry out the transport," the report says.
Investigators have obtained evidence that suspects Budimir of transporting smuggled weapons with a truck with the registration number KP-VP785, and that he also did so on several occasions. Darko Nevzatović, whose nickname on the app is Sky Casper:
"Weapons were mostly transported to the Netherlands, and in some cases to Slovenia and Serbia. The handover in the Netherlands was coordinated by Kadivec, who also provided arms dealers in that country".
SOLD OVER 100 GUNS
The report explained that between February 22 and April 29, 2019, that criminal group smuggled large quantities of semi-automatic pistols from Slovakia to the Netherlands five times.
"After each surrender of weapons in the Netherlands, they returned to Slovenia with cocaine," the application states.
In a very detailed criminal complaint, it was also described how the couriers who transported the weapons were paid from 200 to 250 euros per piece.
They organized the first arms smuggling on February 22, 2019 - on that day, Mario Budimir left the Slovak town of Topoljčani with a legal cargo for the Netherlands.
In Bratislava, the inspectors explain, he loaded between 20 and 30 automatic pistols, which, in coordination with Nevzatović, he handed over to buyers in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Already on February 28, they allegedly repeated the same quantity of pistols, and the third delivery of thirty pistols was packed on March 26, when Budimir, according to the report, was transporting legal cargo from Austria to the Netherlands.
The next two times he took the pistols when he allegedly left Hungary with legal cargo to the Netherlands.
In the files of the Slovenian police, it is described that during one transport, the courier of a coffee shop in Ljubljana handed over a kilogram of cocaine, for which he received seven pistols.
Inspectors explain that cocaine was supplied to that group in the Netherlands by a man from Podgorica Milan Vujotić, who they claim used a nickname on the Sky app Lavitesse.
Although investigators from Slovenia claim that Vujotić was the main link between the Slovenian cell of the Kavački clan and the heads of that crime group from Kotor, the man from Podgorica denied the accusations.
Vujotić, who is on the run, wrote in a letter sent to "Vijesti" that he does not know who Vrzić is and that he has nothing to do with any of the criminal acts listed in the documents of the Slovenian police. He denied allegations that he procured large quantities of cocaine for that group and ordered them to illegally transfer millions of euros in cash to Serbia...
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.
They identified 48 members, and filed a complaint against dozens of unidentified members of the organized criminal group with whom they communicated through the encrypted Sky application.
The police discovered that in that group there were twenty Slovenian citizens, twelve from Serbia, eight from Bosnia and Herzegovina, five from Croatia, two Montenegrin citizens and one from Macedonia.
THE SUSPECTS
According to the investigators, apart from Vrzić, Vujotić, Kadivec, there are Slovenian citizens in that organized criminal group. Blaž Kadivec (26), Danijel Mišljenović (32), Armin Beganović (22), Stojan Babić (40), Luka Bevc (35), Željko Hrkalović (44), Elvis Kolenović (31), Ivica Krivošija (36), Alen Bajc (32), Nenad Tabaković (51), Luka Arapović (36), Dejan Marjanović (34), Dejan Pejoski (39), Mladen Samardžija (31), Ana Marija Mandić (26), David Filip Brzović (29), Uroš Inglič (38), Hajro Kovač i Kosta Tabakovic (46).
A citizen of Serbia, who allegedly formed a cell of the Kavača clan in Slovenia, allegedly also had compatriots in that criminal group - Miloš Miljković (36), Srđan Petrović (51), Slavko Tešić (39), Dalibor Kožul (38), Radoslav Tepavac (41), Slađan Petrović (41), Miloš Joksimović (36), Aleksandar Nikolić (38), Dalibor Nikolić (36), Danko Vukojevića (34) i Marko Plavšić (32).
Their associates, couriers, suppliers and executors of criminal activities are allegedly from Bosnia and Herzegovina Mario Budimir (35), Igor Popović (51), Radenko Vučenović (43), Dragan Todorović (53), Slađan Karimović (35), Vasilije Babić (51), Darko Podraščanin (36) and Mišo Krčić (32), and from Croatia Marko Škrebec (29), Nika Škrebec (25), Hrvoje Krstanović (33), Josip Skoko (36) i Saša Bastalić (53).
In addition to Vujotić, the Slovenian police claim that a thirty-seven-year-old man from Podgorica, living in Belgrade, was also in the cell of the Kavača criminal clan there. Marko Radoman.
According to the criminal complaint, there is also a Macedonian citizen in that group Ivica Stojoski (31).
The police suspect them of having committed dozens of crimes related to the smuggling of drugs, weapons, money... from August 2018 to May 2021.
They explain that before August 2018, Vrzić suggested to Kadivec that they form a part of the Kavaka clan in Slovenia, promising him that, through his acquaintances with the leaders of that clan, he would provide him with large quantities of cocaine from Spain.
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 documents, special prosecutors suspect them of smuggling drugs and weapons and transferring dirty money from Spain to Serbia.
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