Bosnia Suspends Top Prosecutor Over Scandal

radio free europe
July 01, 2011

The institution in charge of supervising Bosnia's justice system has suspended the country's chief prosecutor for alleged links with an international arms dealer....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/bosnia_suspends_top_prosecutor_over_scandal/24252880.html

Indictments of European gun dealers expose business of war

deutsche welle
Defense

09.05.2011

A legal drama involving three European gun dealers offers a rare look into the small arms trade. The case exposes a murky global supply chain that seeks to fill Defense Department demand for guns in Iraq and Afghanistan.

.....Business in the Balkans

According to Griffiths, Hyde and Kleber orchestrated a particularly shady deal that began around 2004. Over 70,000 Kalashnikovs were exported from Bosnia to a former airbase in the UK at Faldingworth, once a storage site for nuclear weapons. The corporate network that moved the weapons included York Guns, Transarms, JAGO Ltd as well as a company by the name of Procurement Management Services. ...more...
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14851608,00.html

Weapons found stashed near southern town

b92.net
Crime & War crimes

Thursday 5.05.2011
14:19
Source: FoNet, Beta

VRANJE -- The Serbian police (MUP) in the southern town of Vranje announced that its officers recovered arms and military equipment in the village of Crnotince.
The village itself is located in the municipality of Preševo....more...
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=05&nav_id=74157

Trial of Mladić's wife begins in Belgrade

b92.net Crime & War crimes Tuesday 5.04.2011 12:51

Source: B92 BELGRADE -- The wife of Gen. Ratko Mladić appeared before a Belgrade court today as her trial on charges of illegal weapons possession began. The former military leader of Bosnian Serbsh as been a fugitive from justice for more than a decade, indicted by the Hague Tribunal for war crimes and genocide....more...

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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=04&dd=05&nav_id=73631

The diva, her warlord and a football fraud trial

independent

The wife of the late war criminal Arkan is accused of stealing €4.5m in a case dividing Serbia

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic in Belgrade

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Svetlana Raznatovic, one of Serbia's most popular folk singers and former wife of the Serbian warlord Arkan, is to face trial for allegedly stealing millions of euros from transfers of football players during her time as the head of the Belgrade club Obilic....more...

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-diva-her-warlord-and-a-football-fraud-trial-2256632.html#

Serb singer Ceca charged with embezzlement

guardian.co.uk

Widow of paramilitary leader Arkan also accused of illegal possession of weapons

Ed Vulliamy

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 29 March 2011 18.05 BST

The pin-up star for Serbia's ultra-nationalist movement, and diva of Serbian turbo-folk music, Svetlana Raznatovic, known by her stage moniker Ceca, has been charged with embezzling funds from a football club and illegal possession of weapons....more...

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/29/serb-singer-ceca-charged

Serbian Singer, Widow Of Warlord 'Arkan' Indicted For Embezzlement

radio free europe March 29, 2011 Local media report that superstar Serbian turbofolk singer Ceca, the widow of Serbian warlord and paramilitary "Tigers" commander Arkan, has been indicted on charges of embezzlement and illegal arms possession....more... read more: radio free europe http://www.rferl.org/content/serbian_singer_wideo_warlord_arkan_indicted_embezzlement/3540412.html

Albanian Government Selling Weapons to Muammar Qaddafi

serbianna.com

March 24, 2011 – 3:09 am In January 2010, MEICO a company owned by the Ministry of Defense of Albania engaged in a complex operation of exporting 150,000 82-millimeter mortar shells to Libya. Two Serbian gun smugglers made this export possible. One of them was Slobodan Tesic, who violated the UN weapons embargo to President’s Charles Taylor Liberia; the other was Zoran Damianovic, who in July 2005 spent a short stint in prison in Montenegro for attempted smuggling of a thousand M70 and M72 Zastava assault rifles [note: These are reverse-engineered Kalashnikov variants.]...more...

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http://serbianna.com/blogs/michaletos/archives/970

Croatian arms dealer suspected of smuggling weapons to Iraq

serbianna.com

February 23, 2011 – 9:49 am
Croatian Times 23 February 2011The owner of Scout company, Ivan Peranac, is believed to have been a partner of Brit Gary Hyde who was recently arrested in the United States on the same suspicions.A Croatian arms dealer is suspected of smuggling thousands of Kalashnikov weapons to Iraq.
The owner of Scout company, Ivan Peranac, is believed to have been a partner of Brit Gary Hyde who was recently arrested in the United States on the same suspicions.According to the British media, Hyde had smuggled the surplus of weapons from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) to Iraq with the help of his partners, German Karl Kleber and Peranac.
Hyde had specialized in the trade of Kalashnikov weapons, and had allegedly collaborated with Peranac who had good connections at the Ministry of Defence, of one of BH’s governing entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. More specifically, Peranec had access to thousands of weapons sold on the black market....more...

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http://serbianna.com/blogs/michaletos/archives/951