ZAGREB IN 1999 ZAGREB, March 28 (Hina) - A protected witness in the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague-based U.N. war crimes tribunal said on Monday that the Serbian interior ministry's State Security
Service (SDB) had, among other things, smuggled large amounts of heroin into Croatia as a special form of warfare with the aim of weakening Croatian youth through a Zeljko Sobot in Zagreb. Sobot, a known member of criminal circles, was killed in Zagreb in 1999.
ZAGREB, March 28 (Hina) - A protected witness in the trial of former
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague-based U.N. war
crimes tribunal said on Monday that the Serbian interior ministry's
State Security Service (SDB) had, among other things, smuggled
large amounts of heroin into Croatia as a special form of warfare
with the aim of weakening Croatian youth through a Zeljko Sobot in
Zagreb. Sobot, a known member of criminal circles, was killed in
Zagreb in 1999. #L#
His name was often mentioned in the trial of the so-called criminal
organisation in Zagreb, which, according to the verdict of the
court of first instance several months ago, did not even exist.
Sobot's murder was entered as a count of the indictment, but due to
lack of evidence, nobody was convicted for this act.
During the night of March 11, 1999, Sobot was killed while he was
parked in his BMW in a Zagreb street. The killer was never found.
Sobot, then 34, was killed with several bullets from a machine gun.
The media wrote at the time that the murder was obviously planned to
the last detail and was another mobster showdown on Zagreb's
streets.
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