Controversial businessman guilty of cigarette smuggling

The Special Court in Belgrade sentenced Stanko Subotić aka Cane to six years in prison for cigarette smuggling on Friday.

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Friday, 28.10.2011.

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The Special Court in Belgrade sentenced Stanko Subotic aka Cane to six years in prison for cigarette smuggling on Friday. Members of his group received sentences ranging from ten months to four and a half years in prison. Controversial businessman guilty of cigarette smuggling Two of the indictees were acquitted. Subotic was sentenced as an organizer of a criminal group that smuggled cigarettes in 1995 and 1996 and illegally acquired EUR 28mn and USD 8mn. Judge Milena Rasic said that the defendants were found guilty of smuggling cigarettes from Macedonia to Serbia with the help of Federal Customs Administration workers and of selling them to legal and physical persons. Subotic lives in Geneva and was tried in absentia. He is also accused of abuse of office and the envisaged sentence for the crime is up to 12 years in prison. Within 15 days of the verdict becoming final, Subotic is to pay RSD 75,821,404 into the state budget with interest dating back to November 1, 1996. Subotic’s nephew Nikola Milosevic and Jovica Randjelovic were sentenced to four and a half and three and a half years respectively. Both of them are on the run. Former Federal Customs Administration Director Mihalj Kertes was sentenced to four years in prison, founder of the Scorpions paramilitary unit Milan Milanovic to three years and former Novi Sad police Chief Miodrag Zavisic to one year. Former State Security office in Novi Sad Head Milovan Popivoda and Ivana Krcmaricic were acquitted. An international arrest warrant for Subotic and the other fugitives was issued in 2006. Since Swiss criminal procedure code does not recognize the criminal act of abuse of office in one’s own firm, which Subotic is accused of in Serbia, he cannot be arrested there. Stanko Subotic Cane

Controversial businessman guilty of cigarette smuggling

Two of the indictees were acquitted.

Subotić was sentenced as an organizer of a criminal group that smuggled cigarettes in 1995 and 1996 and illegally acquired EUR 28mn and USD 8mn.

Judge Milena Rašić said that the defendants were found guilty of smuggling cigarettes from Macedonia to Serbia with the help of Federal Customs Administration workers and of selling them to legal and physical persons.

Subotić lives in Geneva and was tried in absentia. He is also accused of abuse of office and the envisaged sentence for the crime is up to 12 years in prison.

Within 15 days of the verdict becoming final, Subotić is to pay RSD 75,821,404 into the state budget with interest dating back to November 1, 1996.

Subotić’s nephew Nikola Milošević and Jovica Ranđelović were sentenced to four and a half and three and a half years respectively. Both of them are on the run.

Former Federal Customs Administration Director Mihalj Kertes was sentenced to four years in prison, founder of the Scorpions paramilitary unit Milan Milanović to three years and former Novi Sad police Chief Miodrag Zavišić to one year.

Former State Security office in Novi Sad Head Milovan Popivoda and Ivana Krčmaričić were acquitted.

An international arrest warrant for Subotić and the other fugitives was issued in 2006.

Since Swiss criminal procedure code does not recognize the criminal act of abuse of office in one’s own firm, which Subotić is accused of in Serbia, he cannot be arrested there.

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