ZAGREB, April 24 (Hina) - An investigating judge, Zoran Luburic, on Tuesday, launched a probe and ordered that Samir Ivosevic and Marko Nikolic should be kept in custody as they were under suspicion of being involved in the
assassination of Vjeko Slisko a month ago. Ivosevic was apprehended by police on Saturday and will be detained in custody one month. Marko Nikolic is on the run and a warrant for his arrest has been issued. The two are believed to be accessories to the murder of Slisko in the downtown Zagreb on 22 March. They are charged with first-grade murder for gain. On Tuesday, judge Luburic questioned Ivosevic who stood mute. According to the document on which the State Prosecutor's office instigated the procedure, Marko Nikolic and James Cappau, who shot at Slisko, prepared his assassination after they were hired by a still unknown person to kill Slisko, who is believed to have been one of
ZAGREB, April 24 (Hina) - An investigating judge, Zoran Luburic, on
Tuesday, launched a probe and ordered that Samir Ivosevic and Marko
Nikolic should be kept in custody as they were under suspicion of
being involved in the assassination of Vjeko Slisko a month ago.
Ivosevic was apprehended by police on Saturday and will be detained
in custody one month. Marko Nikolic is on the run and a warrant for
his arrest has been issued.
The two are believed to be accessories to the murder of Slisko in the
downtown Zagreb on 22 March. They are charged with first-grade
murder for gain.
On Tuesday, judge Luburic questioned Ivosevic who stood mute.
According to the document on which the State Prosecutor's office
instigated the procedure, Marko Nikolic and James Cappau, who shot
at Slisko, prepared his assassination after they were hired by a
still unknown person to kill Slisko, who is believed to have been
one of bosses in the Zagreb underground.
Cappau then included Ivosevic in the plan offering him 40,000
German marks. In late February, prior to the murder, Ivosevic
received DM 15,000 and the rest should have been given him after the
killing.
Nikolic provided arms such as a machine-gun, rifles and a hand
grenade, for Cappau and Ivosevic. All the three men rented a flat in
the vicinity of Slisko's flat in the downtown Zagreb some time
before the assassination, and followed Slisko and his bodyguard
every day.
On the very day of the assassination, March 22, Ivosevic and Nikolic
followed the movements of Slisko. At about 02.20 pm Ivosevic
informed Cappau where Slisko was standing exactly in Cvjetni
Square. Cappau approached his victim from behind, fired several
bullets at his head and chest and started running away. Slisko's
bodyguard, Ivica Bertic, reached him and fired a bullet at his head.
Both Slisko and Cappau, who were in a critical condition, were
hospitalised, but a few days later they died of wounds.
A few days after that showdown, Bertic was nabbed by police and is
currently in custody as well.
A score of witnesses will be questioned during the investigation.
The Slisko family has offered a reward of one million kuna for
information about who ordered this contract killing.
(hina) ms