"Serbian Al Capone" dies of coronavirus
Successfully avoiding trial, 67-year-old Dragoslav Kosmajac, one of the leaders of the Serbian underworld, died in the country’s largest clinical center “Dr. Dragisa Misovic” from coronavirus.
Serbian media reported this, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Dragoslav Kosmajac was admitted to the hospital in serious condition at the end of March with damage to both lungs. And during the entire time he was in the hospital, there was no improvement. The elderly crime boss died the day before, on April 12, leaving behind a multi-billion dollar fortune and the fame of the “Serbian Al Capone.”
According to the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kosmajac began his criminal activities in the early 90s together with another famous bandit, Rade “Cent” Čaldović, a friend of the legendary leader of Serbian football fans, and then commander of the Tigers volunteer unit, Zeljko Ražnatović, with robberies in Vienna. For which he served two years in an Austrian prison, where, according to one version, he became close to one of Pablo Escobar’s associates, and upon his release, he arranged the transit of cocaine from Latin America to Europe.
The beginning of a criminal career. 1985 Dragoslav Kosmajac (right) with another, now deceased, crime boss who served time for murder, Boris “Bolgar” Petkov
Kosmajac is also responsible for the trafficking of heroin from Turkey, Bulgaria and Macedonia to Western Europe, mainly to Germany and Italy. Moreover, the cunning boss of the criminal world managed to build the case in such a way that he himself, while organizing and controlling the criminal network of drug supplies and sales, never had direct contact with suppliers, drug dealers, or the “dope” itself.
Despite his great popularity in criminal circles, Kosmayatsu always managed to avoid responsibility for his activities. So, unlike his accomplices - the leaders of the Zemun criminal clan Ljubisa Bukha and Dusan Spasojevic (the first received a serious sentence and was released only last year, and the second was shot by the police after offering armed resistance during arrest), he was not affected by a large-scale police operation “Sabre”, organized by law enforcement officers in March 2003 after the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
In 2018, after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called Dragoslav Kosmajac “the biggest drug trafficker,” he was arrested at his villa in Belgrade, in the same Zemun district. At the same time, like the world famous Al Capone, his Serbian “colleague”, the state was unable to blame his “main” criminal activity: the drug lord was accused of tax evasion, illegal acquisition of municipal land and bribery.
However, the influence of criminals on the court turned out to be stronger than the authorities’ desire to put the criminal leader behind bars; he spent only three months in prison, paid a thousand dinars (682 rubles) for legal fees and was released. At the same time, the real estate owned by Kosmajac in Serbia is estimated at 10,7 million euros, and his assets in the West are worth billions of euros.
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