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Sreten Josic is said to be the man behind the assassinations of Bulgarian mafia bosses Poli Pantev, Konstantin Dimitrov and Ivan Todorov among others. Photo by BGNES
Alleged Balkan drug lord Sreten Josic has masterminded the murders of a number of Bulgarian underworld bosses, Serbian press reported, citing police sources.
Josic, also known as Joca Amsterdam, was detained last week on charges of being an accomplice in the murder of the owner of the Croatian magazine "National" Ivo Pukanic.
Serbian police reportedly expects his arrest to lead to clues related to the murders of a number of mafia bosses, who were important players in cocaine trafficking from Latin America to Europe.
Most of them are believed to be Bulgarian underworld lords, who were Josic's partners in the supply and distribution of cocaine.
Josic has been linked to the assassinations of Poli Pantev, who was killed in March 2001 in Aruba, Konstantin Dimitrov a.k.a. Samokovetsa, shot dead in broad daylight in Amsterdam in December 2003 and Ivan Todorov - Doctora, who found his death in February 2006 in downtown Sofia.
At the beginning of April Sreten Josic made headlines in Bulgaria, telling a Belgrade court he enjoyed the protection of high-ranking officials here, citing the names of the then Interior Chief Secretary Boyko Borisov, who was later elected Sofia mayor, and Nikolay Gigov, owner of Lokomotiv football club.
Borisov vehemently denied the allegations, accusing the ruling three-party coalition of crafting a long-term strategy to discredit him.
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