Željko Bojanić killed Risto Mijanović?

One of the most wanted Montenegrin fugitives, from Kotor Zeljko Bojanic (55), was arrested in Istanbul for the murder of a man from Cetinje Rista Mijanović, the local media reported.

Bojanić was arrested by members of the Istanbul Branch for the fight against organized crime, on suspicion of committing a murder in the house where he was hiding.

According to information from CNN Turk, yesterday, in search of the body of the allegedly murdered Mijanović, the police used construction machines to dig up the yard of the house where Bojanić was hiding.

They point out that yesterday, during the search, no trace of the victim was found, but that the search will continue with the first light of the morning.

The same media also announced that Bojanić, whose nickname is Boris, among the 45 most wanted criminals in Europe and that he entered Turkey with a false passport in his name Andelew Belchew Jordan.

Information about the arrest of Bojanić could not be confirmed by the Montenegrin police last night.

That man from Kotor has been on Interpol's list of the most wanted fugitives from the law for years. He has been on the run since Slovenia issued a warrant for him on suspicion that he participated in the smuggling of cocaine from South America to Europe from September 2014 to June 2015.

Mijanović was considered close to the Skaljar criminal clan.

On February 26, 2021, his family reported to the Cetinje police that they had lost all contact with Mijanović, they told "Vijesta" from the Police Administration in the middle of that year.

"Vijesti" then, referring to sources from the security sector, announced that Mijanović disappeared at the beginning of November 2020 in Istanbul.

Allegedly, before he disappeared, he told his family and friends that he was going to meet a man from Kraljevo, whom the Special State Prosecutor's Office later determined was killed in Kotor at the end of 2020.

Mijanović was arrested in 2013 in an international operation that was carried out in Montenegro under the code name "Thunder". In that action, at the same time, in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, several persons were arrested and a large quantity of drugs was seized.

The following year, he was sentenced to a single sentence of five years and ten months in prison for creating a criminal organization and smuggling marijuana on an international scale.

WHO IS ŽELJKO BOJANIĆ?

Bojanic, who was arrested in Istanbul for the murder of a scumbag from Cetinje, has been on the list of the most wanted fugitives in Europe since 2016, due to his involvement in international cocaine smuggling.

In the warrant issued by Slovenia for him, the manner in which drugs were smuggled was also described.

"Identified and unidentified suspects acted as an international criminal group in which everyone had clearly defined roles. They were in constant contact, they informed each other and gave instructions when committing crimes. Bojanic, following instructions received from an unidentified person with the pseudonyms 'Drug' and 'Mr. X' met with MS and CN in Zagreb on September 7, 2014, where it was agreed to purchase a yacht for transporting cocaine. They agreed to buy a ship outside of Europe, which would be intended for transporting cocaine from South America to Europe," the eumostwanted.eu website wrote about Kotoranin.

Before escaping, Bojanić worked in the catering business in his hometown.

According to earlier research by the Center for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro, it has enabled the arrival of the world's largest cruise ships in Montenegro for years.

Bojanic is a former close associate of the now deceased Dragan Dudić Fric - the right hand of a drug lord from Pljevlja Darko Sarić. Fritz was killed in 2010 in the cafe "Moka" in Kotor's Old Town. Bojanic was also wounded in that attack.

He was convicted for the murder of Dudić and wounding of Bojanić Ivan Vračar from Nikšić.

At that trial, in 2011, Bojanić, testifying about the murder, also said that he is the owner of the cafe-bar "Moka" where the crime took place.

Republican leader: Cartels, leave our cities

Serbian cartels: leave our cities! We don't want your dirty money. I warn you, you will lose your head. We don't have a single child to sacrifice to you, wrote yesterday after the arrest of Bojanic, the leader of the Turkish Republican People's Party, Kemal Kilchdaroglu.

"I said that black money also brings its owner. All the mafia scum came to our cities with their money. Now they are looking for the body in the garden. What you see is just a grain of sand in the sea," the Turkish politician wrote on Twitter.

Istanbul, the scene of confrontation between Montenegrin clans

The arrest of Bojanić shows that Istanbul was a safe harbor for Montenegrin criminals, but also the last stop for another scumbag - Mijanović. The murder of Mijanović has not been officially confirmed by the Montenegrin police, to whom the disappearance of the man from Cetinje was reported a year and a half ago.

That local criminals chased each other through Istanbul, or hid in that city, was also shown by the murder of the leader of the Skaljar clan, Jovan Vukotić, on September 8.

The Turkish police, however, needed only a few days to shed light on the mafia liquidation and arrest the suspects. In the operation on September 16, 12 people were arrested, among them high-ranking members of the organized criminal group "Kavač" - Radoje Žuti Živković and Zdravko Perunović.

Allegedly, for that murder, the people of Kavnica paid 1,5 million euros.

Recently, for complicity in the murder, the EK skalar from Bijelo Polje, who was driving Vukotić, was also arrested. The local police established that he was informing the murderers of the movements of the leader of the Skaljar clan...