Police arrest 3 members of Red Star board

Police launched an operation this morning to arrest members of the board of Red Star FC. B92 has learned that the club's secretary general, Zoran Damjanovic, security commissioner Novica Mijuskovic and stadium director Miodrag Corovic are all in custody this afternoon. Police arrest 3 members of Red Star board They will be charged in connection to a brutal assault on a Gendarmerie inspector during a game at the Red Star stadium in Belgrade last Sunday. Yesterday, reports emerged that police were looking into ties between the club management and criminal groups in the capital. Our sources with the MUP say that police are also investigating that angle of the case, but no arrests have so far been made over connections that the club management allegedly has with narco bosses. A smiling Damjanovic was arrested in front of the Football Association of Serbia premises, by several plain clothes policemen who arrived in an obsolete Zastava car with civilian license plates. The MUP is now looking at some of the multi-million euro transfers conducted in the past. The Red Star board announced yesterday that the authorities regularly monitored the club’s dealings, and that they had always provided them with the relevant information concerning their affairs. “A standard review of Red Star’s dealings is under way by the authorities, and the club, as they have up to now, has shown its willingness and openness to make all the relevant data concerning its operations and contracts available for assessment,” it was stated on the club’s website. Meanwhile, a 19-year-old detained earlier this week, one of the four direct perpetrators of the shocking violence in the stands, identified as Uros Misic, was today placed in custody for 30 days. Misic is suspected of aggravated attempted murder on an officer on duty. He was among the group of hooligans, that the police now believe are controlled by the club, who on Dec. 2 identified Nebojsa Trajkovic as a policemen, and attacked him with broken chairs and lit flares. At one point, the suspect tried to force a burning flare in the officer's mouth. Trajkovic, who is recovering from serious injuries, was forced to shoot in the air in a bid to fend off his attackers. Misic hits Tajkovic with a lit flare (FoNet)

Police arrest 3 members of Red Star board

They will be charged in connection to a brutal assault on a Gendarmerie inspector during a game at the Red Star stadium in Belgrade last Sunday.

Yesterday, reports emerged that police were looking into ties between the club management and criminal groups in the capital.

Our sources with the MUP say that police are also investigating that angle of the case, but no arrests have so far been made over connections that the club management allegedly has with narco bosses.

A smiling Damjanović was arrested in front of the Football Association of Serbia premises, by several plain clothes policemen who arrived in an obsolete Zastava car with civilian license plates.



The MUP is now looking at some of the multi-million euro transfers conducted in the past.

The Red Star board announced yesterday that the authorities regularly monitored the club’s dealings, and that they had always provided them with the relevant information concerning their affairs.

“A standard review of Red Star’s dealings is under way by the authorities, and the club, as they have up to now, has shown its willingness and openness to make all the relevant data concerning its operations and contracts available for assessment,” it was stated on the club’s website. Meanwhile, a 19-year-old detained earlier this week, one of the four direct perpetrators of the shocking violence in the stands, identified as Uroš Mišić, was today placed in custody for 30 days.

Mišić is suspected of aggravated attempted murder on an officer on duty. He was among the group of hooligans, that the police now believe are controlled by the club, who on Dec. 2 identified Nebojša Trajković as a policemen, and attacked him with broken chairs and lit flares.

At one point, the suspect tried to force a burning flare in the officer's mouth.

Trajković, who is recovering from serious injuries, was forced to shoot in the air in a bid to fend off his attackers.