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Saturday, 10.09.2011.

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WikiLeaks: Ties between Serbian football, mafia

The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade wrote about ties between mafia and football hooligans in a cable sent in October 2009, WikiLeaks has released.

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Stefan

pre 12 godina

That probably helps explain why the league has turned to absolute tripe! Whatever happened to the good old days when Zvezda actually won something?!

New Zealander

pre 12 godina

Oh no!!! Criminal elements in a criminal country; What a surprise!!!
(Pls say it ain't so!!, 10 September 2011 18:28)

Both is bad, but what is better? If football clubs have mafia ties, or if the government has ties to local mafia groups?
(Comm. Parisson, 10 September 2011 19:50)


I'd go further then that, I'd say the Kosovo-Albanian government is a mafia group

Baldy Mary

pre 12 godina

Oh no!!! Criminal elements in a criminal country; What a surprise!!!

Pls say it ain't so!!!
(Pls say it ain't so!!, 10 September 2011 18:28)

It's me or you or you is me? Mirror, mirror, I am confused

Amer

pre 12 godina

"Nothing new, these ties are known for ages, inofficially.
(Analyst, 10 September 2011 17:36) "

These cables were not intended to reveal secrets to the publics of the respective countries, but to help inform Washington about "what everybody knows" there. I'd be concerned only if there were reports from all over the world that the Americans had no idea what was going on in their particular country. The fact that what we see in the cables and what American diplomats say in public and what the locals agree is old news should be reassuring, except to the conspiracy freaks of the world. (Although these are only "confidential" documents - there's always the chance that the super-secret stuff would be more interesting.)

Comm. Parisson

pre 12 godina

Oh no!!! Criminal elements in a criminal country; What a surprise!!!
(Pls say it ain't so!!, 10 September 2011 18:28)

Both is bad, but what is better? If football clubs have mafia ties, or if the government has ties to local mafia groups?

Agim Kelmendi

pre 12 godina

It adds that “there have been long-standing allegations that representatives in the assemblies of both teams are fronts for mob figures. As a result of these murky ties, individuals from fan clubs have been connected with mob figures and war criminals”.

“Authorities have done little to investigate these allegations and combat corruption in the teams or the fan clubs,” it is said in the cable published by WikiLeaks.


No, these things don't exist in Serbia. Serbia is full of angels, it must be a mistaken identity!?

Baldy Mary

pre 12 godina

Oh no!!! Criminal elements in a criminal country; What a surprise!!!

Pls say it ain't so!!!
(Pls say it ain't so!!, 10 September 2011 18:28)

It's me or you or you is me? Mirror, mirror, I am confused

New Zealander

pre 12 godina

Oh no!!! Criminal elements in a criminal country; What a surprise!!!
(Pls say it ain't so!!, 10 September 2011 18:28)

Both is bad, but what is better? If football clubs have mafia ties, or if the government has ties to local mafia groups?
(Comm. Parisson, 10 September 2011 19:50)


I'd go further then that, I'd say the Kosovo-Albanian government is a mafia group

Agim Kelmendi

pre 12 godina

It adds that “there have been long-standing allegations that representatives in the assemblies of both teams are fronts for mob figures. As a result of these murky ties, individuals from fan clubs have been connected with mob figures and war criminals”.

“Authorities have done little to investigate these allegations and combat corruption in the teams or the fan clubs,” it is said in the cable published by WikiLeaks.


No, these things don't exist in Serbia. Serbia is full of angels, it must be a mistaken identity!?

Amer

pre 12 godina

"Nothing new, these ties are known for ages, inofficially.
(Analyst, 10 September 2011 17:36) "

These cables were not intended to reveal secrets to the publics of the respective countries, but to help inform Washington about "what everybody knows" there. I'd be concerned only if there were reports from all over the world that the Americans had no idea what was going on in their particular country. The fact that what we see in the cables and what American diplomats say in public and what the locals agree is old news should be reassuring, except to the conspiracy freaks of the world. (Although these are only "confidential" documents - there's always the chance that the super-secret stuff would be more interesting.)

Comm. Parisson

pre 12 godina

Oh no!!! Criminal elements in a criminal country; What a surprise!!!
(Pls say it ain't so!!, 10 September 2011 18:28)

Both is bad, but what is better? If football clubs have mafia ties, or if the government has ties to local mafia groups?

Stefan

pre 12 godina

That probably helps explain why the league has turned to absolute tripe! Whatever happened to the good old days when Zvezda actually won something?!

Agim Kelmendi

pre 12 godina

It adds that “there have been long-standing allegations that representatives in the assemblies of both teams are fronts for mob figures. As a result of these murky ties, individuals from fan clubs have been connected with mob figures and war criminals”.

“Authorities have done little to investigate these allegations and combat corruption in the teams or the fan clubs,” it is said in the cable published by WikiLeaks.


No, these things don't exist in Serbia. Serbia is full of angels, it must be a mistaken identity!?

Baldy Mary

pre 12 godina

Oh no!!! Criminal elements in a criminal country; What a surprise!!!

Pls say it ain't so!!!
(Pls say it ain't so!!, 10 September 2011 18:28)

It's me or you or you is me? Mirror, mirror, I am confused

New Zealander

pre 12 godina

Oh no!!! Criminal elements in a criminal country; What a surprise!!!
(Pls say it ain't so!!, 10 September 2011 18:28)

Both is bad, but what is better? If football clubs have mafia ties, or if the government has ties to local mafia groups?
(Comm. Parisson, 10 September 2011 19:50)


I'd go further then that, I'd say the Kosovo-Albanian government is a mafia group

Comm. Parisson

pre 12 godina

Oh no!!! Criminal elements in a criminal country; What a surprise!!!
(Pls say it ain't so!!, 10 September 2011 18:28)

Both is bad, but what is better? If football clubs have mafia ties, or if the government has ties to local mafia groups?

Amer

pre 12 godina

"Nothing new, these ties are known for ages, inofficially.
(Analyst, 10 September 2011 17:36) "

These cables were not intended to reveal secrets to the publics of the respective countries, but to help inform Washington about "what everybody knows" there. I'd be concerned only if there were reports from all over the world that the Americans had no idea what was going on in their particular country. The fact that what we see in the cables and what American diplomats say in public and what the locals agree is old news should be reassuring, except to the conspiracy freaks of the world. (Although these are only "confidential" documents - there's always the chance that the super-secret stuff would be more interesting.)

Stefan

pre 12 godina

That probably helps explain why the league has turned to absolute tripe! Whatever happened to the good old days when Zvezda actually won something?!