Miloš Milanović, also known as Smajli, who is believed to be a member of the criminal group of Dejan Stojanović Keke, one of the most wanted Serbian fugitives, was liquidated nine years ago in front of the building where he lived in Novi Beograd. This crime was never solved, and the perpetrators are still unknown.
Milanović was killed on January 28, 2015, around 11 a.m., in front of the building where he lived in Gagarinova Street number 60 in New Belgrade. Milanović was in the garage and tried to park his car, but the attacker was waiting for him. Allegedly, they quarreled and then fought. Miloš then tried to escape and ran to the stairs, but the attacker caught up with him and shot him in the back with a pistol.
The critically wounded young man continued to try to save himself, but soon fell to the sidewalk and died, while the killer fled. Witnesses heard an argument, a commotion, and then cries: „Kill me, kill me!“
„I looked out the window and saw a guy sitting on concrete across from the entrance to the building. At first, I thought that guy was drunk, as he stumbled even as he sat. Then he stood up, crossed a few meters, and then fell. Neighbors then called the police and ambulance. We also saw a guy who ran out of the entrance. It is possible that he was the killer,“ said a resident of the building in Novi Beograd.
Milanović is from Užice, and he lived in the building in front of which he was killed with his family. He was, reportedly, known to the police from earlier due to drugs and illegal possession of weapons. It was said that Milanović ran a café in Novi Beograd, in front of which Vujadin Pejanović, aka Vule Balavi, was killed three years earlier. At that time, however, Milanović was not the owner of the café.
Milanović’s mother and older brother were at the scene. They were crying, while neighbors expressed their condolences. Soon after the murder, the top Belgrade police arrived at the scene, led by the chief of the Belgrade Police Directorate, Veselin Milić.
Vujadin Pejanović (34), known as Vule Balavi, one of the prominent members of Keke’s group, was liquidated on April 17, 2012, in front of the „Ki Largo“ cafe in Novi Beograd while entering his „Opel“ on the parking lot. The attacker shot Pejanović in the head. Miloš Ljubenović (31) was sitting in a parked „Fiat Punto“ in Gagarinova Street in Novi Beograd, when the attacker approached him and fired four shots through the car window on December 23, 2012. Ljubenović died on the spot. Nemanja Lončović (43), the owner of the „Hacienda Rodizio“ restaurant, which was associated with Keke, was killed on May 24, 2013, at the moment he parked his „Mercedes“ in front of the building where he lived in Rakovica. The attacker shot him in the head.
Immediately after Milanović’s murder, the media reported that he was killed in a gang war for control of the drug market. Since the crime was not solved, this assumption has remained to this day. Milanović was previously known to the police. In Belgrade, he was arrested several times for drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons.
Dejan Stojanović Keka, in the „White Book“ of the Ministry of the Interior, is labeled as the leader of the New Belgrade criminal group and one of the biggest drug traffickers. Keka formed the group, and the condition for joining the gang was that members had committed a murder or attempted to murder someone. Keka fled Serbia in 2006, after the murder of the leader of the „Bežanija clan,“ Goran Mijatović Mita. Allegedly, he was hiding in South America, and the police are still searching for him.
Keka’s group is suspected of organizing incidents and interrupting a football match in Genoa in October 2010, allegedly because they did not receive their share from the transfer of goalkeeper Vladimir Stojković to Partizan.
Serbia is looking for Keka because of suspicion of grand theft, while Brazil previously issued an Interpol warrant for him for organizing cocaine smuggling. This Interpol warrant was withdrawn in 2013.
The media connected Milanović’s liquidation with the war between Luka Bojović’s people and Keka’s group. The murders began when a member of Luka’s group cheated Keka’s buddy for five kilograms of heroin. He paid for the fraud with his life, and then the „war of annihilation“ began. M. D. organized the killings of Keka’s people in revenge.
M. D. exclusively travels around Belgrade in his armored BMW. He never goes alone and always takes security with him. He has no criminal record with the police. He remained loyal to Luka Bojović all the time while he was in prison in Spain.
Luka Bojović was identified as the heir to the leader of the „Zemun Clan“ after the „Sablja“ action in 2003, and he was arrested in Valencia. There, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for weapons and forging documents, but was acquitted of the charge of the murder of Milan Jurišić, Jure, in Madrid in 2009 due to lack of evidence. For the same reason, the court in Serbia also acquitted him of the murder of Branko Jeftović, Jorge, and attempted murder of Andrija Drašković and Zoran Nedović, Šok, in 2004, as well as for the murder of their bodyguards Dejan Živančević and Milutin Jovičić.
Follow all the news from Serbia and the world on our Telegram channel.
Follow us on social media
Install our iOS or Android application – 24sedam The news that matters
