balkan insight
03 Nov 2010 / 12:28
Six men were sentenced to a total of 150 years in prison for their part in the 2008 killing of prominent Croatian editor Ivo Pukanic and his marketing director, in a ruling delivered by a Zagreb court on Wednesday.
Six men were sentenced to a total of 150 years in prison for their part in the 2008 killing of prominent Croatian editor Ivo Pukanic and his marketing director, in a ruling delivered by a Zagreb court on Wednesday.
Sabina ArslanagicSarajevo
The six were found guilty of killing Pukanic, the influential editor-in-chief of Croatian Nacional weekly, and his marketing director Niko Franjic in a car blast in the center of Zagreb in 2008.
Zeljko Milovanovic, one of the two defendants who was tried in absentia, was given the maximum sentence of 40 years in jail. The five other defendants were handed down sentences of between 15 and 33 years behind bars.
At the time of the murder, Pukanic was investigating co-operation between organised crime groups in the Balkans, most notably cigarette smuggling gangs.
According to prosecutors, the men killed Pukanic to stop him from publishing stories that exposed Balkan mafia groups.
His murder was allegedly ordered by the Serbian businessman Sreten Jocic, who is currently on trial in Belgrade on charges of having paid the killers €1.5 million for the carrying out the murder. Two other men are also being tried in Serbia in connection to the case.
The six were found guilty of killing Pukanic, the influential editor-in-chief of Croatian Nacional weekly, and his marketing director Niko Franjic in a car blast in the center of Zagreb in 2008.
Zeljko Milovanovic, one of the two defendants who was tried in absentia, was given the maximum sentence of 40 years in jail. The five other defendants were handed down sentences of between 15 and 33 years behind bars.
At the time of the murder, Pukanic was investigating co-operation between organised crime groups in the Balkans, most notably cigarette smuggling gangs.
According to prosecutors, the men killed Pukanic to stop him from publishing stories that exposed Balkan mafia groups.
His murder was allegedly ordered by the Serbian businessman Sreten Jocic, who is currently on trial in Belgrade on charges of having paid the killers €1.5 million for the carrying out the murder. Two other men are also being tried in Serbia in connection to the case.
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