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The Montenegrin drug boss is executed in Turkey

Politiko 2022-09-09 20:32:10

The Montenegrin drug boss is executed in Turkey

Montenegrin media reported on Thursday that Jovan Vukotic, 42, the suspected leader of the notorious Skaljari drug gang, was killed in Turkey. The media reported that he was shot dead by a motorcycle while he was in a car with his wife and daughter, reports Balkan Insight .

The Montenegrin police have not officially confirmed the death of Vukotić.

"Montenegro services are trying to get information and confirmation from colleagues in Turkey. However, the procedure is slow", said the Police Department for Antena M radio.

Vukotic was on the run after Montenegrin judicial authorities issued a red warrant for his arrest in September last year.

He appears in Montenegrin police files and documents as one of the leaders of the drug gang based in the city of Kotor. In 2018, he denied involvement in drug trafficking.

In December 2020, the Special State Prosecution charged Vukotić with creating a criminal organization and preparing the murder of three members of the rival Kavac drug gang.

According to the prosecution, Vukotic planned to kill Slobodan Kascelan, the alleged kingpin of the Kavac gang, and Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljkovic, the leaders of another notorious gang from Serbia.

Vukotic was charged as a result of evidence obtained from Sky ECC communications, received and broadcast by French and Dutch police, of crimes including drug trafficking, murder and kidnapping.

Skaljar's gang has been involved in a six-year war with Kavac's rival gang, also from Kotor. At least 40 people have been killed in Montenegro, Serbia, Austria and Greece in the conflict. Both gangs take their names from the neighborhoods of Kotor, a medieval town of around 20,000 inhabitants in Montenegro's Boka Bay.

The conflict began in 2015 after 300 kilograms of cocaine disappeared from an apartment in Valencia, Spain, in 2014.

In 2018, Vukotic was arrested in Turkey and extradited to Serbia, where the High Court in Belgrade sentenced him to 15 months in prison for using a forged Macedonian passport. In February 2020, he was extradited to Montenegro, where he was charged with the attempted murder of members of Kavac's gang. But in July of that year the Supreme Court in Podgorica dropped the charges and he was released.

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