The former vice-president of the Serbian List, Millan Radoicic, has bought new real estate in a prestigious location in Belgrade, writes the Balkan Investigative Journalism Network (BIRN).
The High Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Serbian capital accuses Radoicic of several criminal offenses in connection with the attack against the Kosovo Police in the village of Banjské in Zveçan in September 2023, where a police sergeant and three Serbian attackers were killed.
Radoiçiqi publicly claimed responsibility for that attack and admitted that he was the organizer and leader of the armed group.
Nikola Petrovic, the godfather of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, as well as the wife of Radočić’s godmother and his business partner, Zvonko Veselinović, bought properties in his neighborhood Dedinja, which is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Belgrade.
According to BIRN, the common denominator for all these properties is Davor Macura, the owner of Alta Bank, who is mentioned in the media as a businessman close to the Serbian Progressive Party regime.
The properties owned by Millan Radoicic, according to this research portal, are located between the boulevard “Princi Aleksandar Karagjorgjevic” on one side and the street “Užička” on the other.
The plots, which are located next to each other, have a total area of more than 12,000 square meters.
BIRN reveals that on two plots of land on “Princi Aleksandar Karagjorgjevic” boulevard, one of which belongs to Radoicic and his wife, and the other to Ljiljana Bozhovic, the wife of Zvonk Veselinovic, buildings are being built, which exceed 1,500 square meters.
Furthermore, BIRN reveals that the investor in the construction of the Radoicic facility is the company “Danica Park” from Belgrade. Until May 21 of this year, this company was an investor of the facility being built on the plot of Veselinović’s wife, when she became an investor, according to official documents.
The estimated total value of the works in both buildings is around 5.6 million euros.
The company “Danica Park” is owned by Davor Macura, once the owner of Alta exchange, which later bought Jubmes bank, known today as “Alta banka”. In recent years, some media have characterized Matsuru as a businessman close to the Government.
These are not the first properties in Dedinje owned by Radoicic, Petrovic and Veselinovic. They are also neighbors in another part of Dedinje, which BIRN wrote about before.
After the attack against the Kosovo Police on September 24, Radoiçiqi resigned from the post of vice president of Lista Serbe, the largest party of Serbs in Kosovo, which enjoys the support of official Belgrade.
In parallel with politics, he also developed business in Serbia in the field of construction and hospitality, earning millions of income.
According to a survey by Radio Free Europe (REL), the three construction companies led by Radoicic until last year have earned more than 23.5 million euros in 2023. As seen in financial reports, tenders and other documents, the the income in the accounts of the companies “Inkop”, “Novi Pazar-put” and “Betonjerka”, were earned from the works paid by the state treasury.
Building expressways, maintaining local roads, and erecting poles for transmission lines were just some of the multimillion-dollar jobs these companies did.
Radoicic left the job to his former business partners, brothers Zharko and Zvonko Vesselinovic, businessmen from northern Kosovo, who – like Radoicic – are on the US sanctions list from 2021, due to suspicions of involvement in organized crime and corruption.
Since the placement of Radoicic and Veselinovic and their related companies on the “blacklist” of the United States of America, official Belgrade has not implemented those sanctions, because there are no international obligations for this.
REL also wrote in July 2022 that the state of Serbia gave millions of jobs to Radoicic’s companies.
“Novi Pazar put” won five contracts for the rehabilitation of local roads in the southwest of the country, while “Betonjerka Aleksinac” produces poles for transmission lines for the state-owned company Electricity of Serbia.
Even before the attack in Banjska, Radoicic was on the run from the Kosovo authorities, but due to accusations of corruption.
The Interior Minister of Kosovo, Xhelal Sveçla, described him as one of the leaders of the criminal structures in the north of Kosovo.
The Kosovo Prosecutor’s Office connects Vesselinovic and Radoicic with the murder of the Serbian politician from Kosovo, Oliver Ivanovic.
They are mentioned as suspected organizers of the criminal group, but no charges were brought against them, as they were on the run at the time.
Kosovo law does not allow indictments against fugitives, unless they have been investigated before.
Lista Serbe denied all charges against Radoicic, and Radoicic himself spoke about the Ivanovic case at some point, saying that he was “not the closest friend” of Oliver Ivanovic, but that he was “not a murderer” and that he “had no regarding the murder” of the politician.
