Serbian criminal Filip Korać, who was arrested in Hungary at the beginning of October, was extradited to France.
He is accused of organizing international drug smuggling and participating in money laundering, it was announced today from the prosecutor's office in Paris, KRIK learns, reports N1.
In a major police operation, Korać was arrested together with his associate Branimir Vujović, who is connected to people from political life in Serbia.
Two days ago, after being extradited from Hungary, Korać was accused in France of being the head of a criminal group that was involved in drug and weapons smuggling, but also that laundered money in this country. He was remanded in custody and will face trial at the Paris Organized Crime Court.
He was arrested in early October, in a major police investigation in which 13 people were detained in France and six in Monaco. The investigation began in March of last year, and was based on messages from the secure communication application "Sky" used by criminal groups around the world.
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As written in the document from the investigation, the details of which were previously published by KRIK, Korać had the nickname Marko on "Skaj" and often used a fake passport, especially when he traveled to the Dominican Republic and stayed in Spain.
This document also revealed that one of Korac's key associates in France was Branimir Vujović, also arrested in this action and suspected of money laundering. The two were quite close and, as can be seen from the document, Vujović used the French policewoman to check for Korac whether there were proceedings and warrants against him. The policewoman was also arrested and is under investigation. Their relationship worsened last year, when they allegedly got into a conflict and Vujović declared war on Korac.
Vujović, as revealed by KRIK, was also connected with people from the authorities in Serbia - he met on several occasions with the Secretary General of the Government, Novak Nedić, and his business partner was Filip Bačević, the son of Milan Bačević, the former minister and ambassador of Serbia to China. One of the meetings with Nedić was attended by Korac's associate Nemanja Obradović, the document from the investigation says, but it is not stated what the reason for this meeting was. Nedić previously confirmed for KRIK that he met with Vujović, but did not provide many details.
Apart from France, Korać is also under investigation for drug smuggling in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There are no proceedings against him in Serbia.
His criminal group, which he took over after his closest associate and known criminal Luka Bojović was arrested in Spain, participated in a multi-year war in the Balkan underground. His ally was the Skaljar clan, and his greatest enemy was the group led by Aleksandar Stanković Sale Mutavi, and then Veljko Belivuk, close to the Kavački clan.
Belivuk and his team planned to kill Korač, the domestic prosecution established during the investigation against this clan, but they failed in this.
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