Part of the Kavač clan collaborated with the criminal organization No Limit Soldiers (NLS), which originated in the poor neighborhood of Koral Speht in Willemstad, on the island of Curaçao, and which developed from a street gang into a transnational network for cocaine trafficking, money laundering and contract killings. This criminal organization is linked to a series of liquidations, including the assassination of politicians Half of the Wild (Helmin Wiels) in 2013, and its leaders were arrested in international police operations from the Caribbean to Dubai.
That some drug traffickers from the former Yugoslavia collaborated with them emerges from transcripts of conversations from the once protected Sky app, which were conducted by a fugitive member of the Kavač clan with a police badge, Ljubo Milović and Trebinje Bozidar Ratkovic.
Hidden behind a door Officer i Bad Montana, Milović and Ratković exchanged messages for months about the activities of drug gangs, planning liquidations, kidnappings, collaborators and traitors, as well as international police operations in which members of the NLS and other related criminal groups were arrested.
In his communication with Milović over several months, the interlocutor repeatedly referred to himself in the third person in his messages, using the name Božo. According to information from international sources, it was Ratković who also used the nickname Montana Malvada on Sky.
During a chat about the situation in the Balkan underworld, on November 30, 2020, he complained to Milović that his people had been arrested in Dubai, Belgium, and Brazil.
"They arrested all my people in Dubai, Belgium and Brazil. I've seized the money, I'll have to go to the South to see what I can do. This brother from Tyson is left, so let's continue. He tells me that his lawyers told him to continue the EnCro operation," he wrote to Milović that day.
The fugitive police officer was interested in how they were arrested, but also whether it was safe because of the encrypted Enkro application.
After that, Ratković writes the details: "Yes, 45 of them were arrested in the EU, Dubai and 149 in Brazil. Luckily I got the fuck out of that Enkro in time."
He also states what international services seized in that operation:
"They took away 100 or so houses, 37 planes and who knows what else. Tyson was No. 1. The most f*cking thing about him is that in 2013 he killed a politician who advocated for the islands in the South to separate from the Netherlands, now they've pinned that on him too. He killed that Wils, he was the world's most famous fighter against corruption. Your generation, he had billions."
Milović forwarded the correspondence Mileta Ojdanić, who explains to him that if they are talking about a Moroccan arrested in Dubai and then released, that person is their associate who was "extracting" cocaine for them.
After that, the escaped policeman demands an answer from Trebinje, who solves the "mystery", explaining that the Moroccan was also arrested again, but also who he is talking about:
"He's been arrested again. This one's from Curacao, those are the Dutch islands." Shurendy Tyson Quant, I was with him in the Dominican Republic, he has a villa, a zoo within the villa... Lions, tigers, everything, fuck his father. He has those serious faces. Enough. He has, clans are funny for foreigners, believe me"...
Accusations, arrests, escape...
Božidar Božo Ratković from Trebinje is known as one of the leaders of the Balkan drug cartel, with strong ties in Latin America and Europe.
According to media reports, his criminal network included smuggling routes from Bolivia and Brazil, through Argentine and Brazilian ports, to markets in Europe and South Africa.
It is known that he used numerous false identities and travel documents, with the help of which he avoided arrest and extradition for years, which is why he earned the nickname "the man with a thousand faces" in international police circles.
He was first arrested in 2010 in Brazil for smuggling 500 kilograms of cocaine. He continued his criminal operations after that, and 12 years later he was arrested in Argentina. On that occasion, 165 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a shipping container, destined for the European market, were seized.
While in prison, in January 2023, he reportedly suffered a severe stroke, resulting in partial paralysis. Due to his health, he was transferred to house arrest in Avellaneda, under electronic monitoring. At the end of the same year, he escaped from custody, although he was under surveillance and in a wheelchair, and has been on the run since then. According to available information, he remains beyond the reach of the judicial authorities.
Milović has been on the run for three years.
Montenegrin police have been searching for Milović since July 2022, and the Special State Prosecutor's Office is conducting several criminal proceedings against him in the field of organized crime.
This fugitive police officer is considered one of the key figures in the Kavac crime clan and has been accused multiple times of international cocaine smuggling and money laundering.
According to evidence provided to Montenegrin investigators by Europol four years ago, he wrote on the once encrypted Sky app under the nicknames Officer and Evil Lieutenant. It was through this phone app that he coordinated smuggling routes from Latin America to Europe, distributed money, collected data from investigations and shared it with the clan leader Radoje Zvicer and his associates, but also gave instructions to members of his criminal group...
Proceedings are also being conducted against him in Serbia.
According to the accusations of Montenegrin special prosecutors, Milović and Ojdanić are the leaders of the so-called police drug cartel.
Individuals in that team are accused of organizing cocaine smuggling from Ecuador to European Union countries and Turkey, transporting the money earned from cocaine to Serbia and Montenegro, but also using violence and intimidating others, acquiring large quantities of weapons and explosives... influencing the appointment of people close to them to management positions in the Police Directorate in order to obtain classified information and other important data, but also using money earned through criminal activity to prevent voters from exercising their right to vote in the parliamentary elections in August 2020 in Montenegro.
Cocaine, murder, money laundering...
According to the available information, Shurendi Tyson Kvant, whom Ratković is talking about, is the leader of the NLS criminal organization. Under his leadership, the clan grew from a local street gang into a transnational network for cocaine trafficking, money laundering and murder, with connections in South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Dubai.
Quant's name was linked to the murder of politician Helmin Wills on May 5, 2013, leader of the Pueblo Soberano party and the most prominent anti-corruption fighter on the island.
In the "Maximus" investigation, the direct perpetrator of the murder and a member of the NLS clan, Elvis Monster Kuvas, was sentenced to life imprisonment, while former Finance Minister George Jamaluddin was declared the mastermind and sentenced to 28 years in prison.
In March 2021, The Daily Herald reported that the Court of Appeal had sentenced the former Finance Minister of Curaçao, from the Muvimentu Futuro Corsou party, to 30 years in prison for ordering the paid murder of a then-MP and leader of the Pueblo Soberano party.
Kvant was arrested in Jamaica in April 2013 and deported to Curacao, although his lawyers disputed the legality of the proceedings.
Dutch prosecutors later charged him with cocaine smuggling and attempted murder in Rotterdam, but a court in Haarlem acquitted him in February 2014 due to lack of evidence, and the acquittal was upheld by an appeals court in 2016.
In November 2020, in a coordinated action by the police of Curaçao, Aruba, Sint Maarten, the Netherlands, and the United Arab Emirates, Kvant was arrested in Dubai.
The Sint Maarten prosecutor's office charges him with organizing murders, kidnappings, money laundering and leading a criminal organization.
The Netherlands sought his extradition, but the process was hampered by the lack of a formal extradition agreement with the UAE.
The latest publicly available information does not confirm that he has been extradited, nor that he has been released.
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