The foundations of the gang began during the mass immigration of Yugoslav guest-workers to Sweden in the s. Its power base is in the cities of Stockholm and Copenhagen[1] and territory in Malmö and Gothenburgamong other cities in western Sweden.
The founder and first leader of the gang is believed to be warlord Željko "Arkan" Ražnatović[3] and the current leader is alleged to be Milan Ševo. The beginnings of the "Yugo Mafia" came with the large waves of guest-workers from Yugoslavia to Northern Europe in the s and s.
During this time Socialist Yugoslavia was emptying its prisons and flooding Western Europe with Yugoslav criminals, many of whom created organized criminal albanska maffian stockholm in GermanyAustriaDenmarkand Sweden. One of these newly freed criminals was Željko "Arkan" Ražnatovićwho in began organizing large heists and hijackings across Western Europe, accumulating a group of subordinates, wealth, and a feared reputation in the underworld.
In New York multiple heists that were so ahead of its time was happening all over New York. Arkan was at the helm of the gang untilat which point he fled Sweden due to Interpol Warrants. Arkan's childhood friend Dragan "Jokso" Joksović is believed to eventually have taken control of the Serb mafia in Sweden, broadening the gang's focus from robbery to cigarette smuggling and extortion.
Although indicted multiple times for drug offenses and assault, he was never convicted. Owner of several upscale Stockholm restaurants he had close ties to celebrities and politicians in Sweden - eventually being murdered by hit-men on February albanska maffian stockholm, In the late s disagreements over money, territory and leadership caused a degree of infighting within the Serb mafia in Scandinavia.
Soon after Joksović's murder, the next boss Ratko "Cobra" Đokić was shot 30 times and killed in the center of Stockholm in Ševo survived several assassination attempts and in left Stockholm for Belgrade, Serbia, from where he is believed to have continued control of the organization.
Ševo is suspected by Swedish and Serbian authorities to be behind the infamous Stockholm Helicopter Heist worth 10 million euros. Inthe Danish government label the Serb mafia as having a "leading role in smuggling heroin into Denmark", surpassing the Albanians and Turks in the Copenhagen drug market.
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