The Zemun Clan is one of the Belgrade clans of the Serbian Mafia

Serbian mafia

Serbian Organized Crime or Naša Stvar are various criminal organizations based in Serbia or composed of ethnic Serbs in the Serbian Diaspora. Serbian mafiosos are very active in European Union countries...

. The name is based on the base of the clan i.e. Zemun

Zemun

Zemun is a historical town and one of the 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia...

, a municipality of Belgrade

Subdivisions of Belgrade

The city of Belgrade is divided into 17 municipalities.Most of the municipalities are situated on the southern side of the Danube and Sava rivers, in the Šumadija region...

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In 1992, the gang of "Peca" was arrested, one of the members was Dušan Spasojević, the later head of Zemun clan.

In September 2001, 700 kilos of heroin was found in a bank vault rented by the BIA in central Belgrade. The illegal safekeeping was never explained nor brought up. The Zemun gang had "special training courses" with the BIA, lending them information on Kosovo Albanian terrorists.

During the period that started with the Yugoslav wars

Yugoslav wars

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 and ended with the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić in March 2003, connections between the mafia and the government were obvious and corruption was rampant in most branches of the government, from border patrols to law-enforcement agencies. On March 12, 2003, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was assassinated

Assassination of Zoran Đinđić

The assassination of Zoran Đinđić, the Prime Minister of Serbia, took place on Wednesday, March 12, 2003, in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.- Background :The assassination of Đinđić was preceded by several unsuccessful attempts on his life...

 by former Serbian

Serbs

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 Special Operations Unit (Red Berets, transformed from Arkan's Tigers) Milorad Luković also known as Legija, member of the Zemun clan. Đinđić had connections within the Surčin for the earlier overthrowing of Milošević. The government set in motion a major bust on criminality in - "Operation Sablja

Operation Sablja

The Operation Sablja was launched on March 12, 2003, following the assassination of Zoran Đinđić, the Prime Minister of Serbia. The assassination destabilized the government. Immediately after the assassination, a state of emergency was declared by interim president Nataša Mićić...

" (English: Sabre), which led to more than 10,000 arrests. New Belgrade malls, a frequent place of gangsters, went down more than 20+% after the Operation 123 criminal groups were broken with 844 members awaiting trial; 3,949 people were issued criminal complaints, 28 kilos of heroin, 463 grams of Cocaine, 44 837 kilos of Marijuana, 4 960 synthetic drugs and 688 stolen cars were found by the day. Milan Sarajlić, the Deputy State Prosecutor of Serbia was arrested and confessed the involvement (being on payroll) with the Zemun clan. 140 kilos of marijuana is seized in Belgrade and 4 people are arrested in November, 2003. The Red Berets are dissolved on 23 March 2003.

In 2006 It was revealed that Dušan Spasojević

Dušan Spasojevic

Dušan Spasojević, also known by his widely used nicknames Šiptar and Duća, was the head of one of the largest Serbian criminal groups on record, the Zemun clan....

, the gang leader of the Zemun clan, was a connection to Serbian Radicals leader Vojislav Šešelj

Vojislav Šešelj

Vojislav Šešelj, JD is a Serbian politician, writer and lawyer. He is the founder and president of the Serbian Radical Party and was vice-president of Serbia between 1998 and 2000...

, whom he had given information about high-profile murders carried out in Serbia, written about in Šešelj's two books (Spasojević under pseudonym Laufer)

In November, 2009, Argentine

Argentina

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 Police arrested 5 Serbian drug couriers and seized their 492 kilograms of cocaine in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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On October 31, 2009, Serbian police arrested over 500 people in the biggest anti-drug bust ever in Serbia. One of the largest drug busts in 2009. The routs of the drugs were from Uruguay

Uruguay

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 and Argentina

Argentina

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 via Central alt. South Africa

South Africa

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 to Northern Italy

Italy

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 alt. Turkey

Turkey

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 to Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

. Also, Serbian organized crime experts estimated 10,000 foot soldiers part of 5 major organized crime groups operating in Serbia. A courier package of 5 kilos cocaine was intercepted from Paraguay, 4 Belgraders were arrested. The busts were part of the Operation Balkan Warrior; an international drug smuggling case that involves mainly the Zemun clan

Zemun Clan

The Zemun Clan is one of the Belgrade clans of the Serbian Mafia. The name is based on the base of the clan i.e. Zemun, a municipality of Belgrade....

, a name concluded as leader of the drug ring is Željko Vujanović.

People

Name Alias	Born/died	Title	Info
Mafiosi
Dušan Spasojević Dušan Spasojevic Dušan Spasojević, also known by his widely used nicknames Šiptar and Duća, was the head of one of the largest Serbian criminal groups on record, the Zemun clan.... "Šiptar, Duća"	1967-2003	Head	Head of one of the largest Serbian criminal groups on record, the Zemun clan.The peak of this cartel's influence occurred from 2000 until 2003 when Spasojević was killed by Serbian police on March 27, 2003 during a country-wide manhunt initiated after the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić.
Legija Milorad Ulemek Milorad "Legija" Ulemek , also known as Milorad Luković is a former commander of the Serbian secret police special unit, the Red Berets , convicted of the assassinations of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic and organiser of the attempted murder of the... "Legija"		Boss	Arkan's Tigers member during the Yugoslav wars, transferred into the Red berets by Milošević, involved in Đinđić murder
Orchestrated Assassinations
Radoslav Trlajić "Bata Trlaja"	-2000		A Belgrade boss and a member of the Novi Beograd Novi Beograd Novi Beograd or New Belgrade is the most populous municipality that constitutes the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is a planned city, built in 1947 on the left bank of the Sava river which was previously an uninhabited area, opposite of the old Belgrade...  Clan. He was famous for referring to Serbia and Belgrade in the nineties as "a pond too small for so many crocodiles". He was murdered on February 26, 2000 by Mile Luković of the Zemun Clan.
Zoran Davidović "Ćanda"	-2000		Murdered while returning from the funeral of Branislav Lainović on March 23, 2000 by the Zemun clan.
Zoran Uskoković "Skole"	-2000	Businessman	a Belgrade businessman, was murdered on April 27, 2000 by the members of the Zemun clan
Momir Gavrilović		Deputy Chief (Retired)	BIA. Was killed by Milorad Ulemek Milorad Ulemek Milorad "Legija" Ulemek , also known as Milorad Luković is a former commander of the Serbian secret police special unit, the Red Berets , convicted of the assassinations of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic and organiser of the attempted murder of the...  "Legija" and the Zemun clan in an attempt to damage Zoran Đinđić's administration by convincing the public that he was killed for delivering "evidence" of government ties with the criminals. Sretko Kalinić Sretko Kalinić Sretko Kalinić, also known as "The Beast", or "The White" is a Serbian gangster, contract killer and mass murderer, best known as one of the conspirators in the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.- Early life :... 's, the number one hitman of the Zemun clan, DNA was found on the murder spot. Zvezdan Jovanović Zvezdan Jovanovic Zvezdan Jovanović , also known as Zveki and Zmija assassinated former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić on 12 March 2003....  was asked to carry out the assassination.
Branislav Lainović "Dugi"	-2000	Businessman	Businessman from Novi Sad Novi Sad Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river.... . Murdered in Belgrade on March 21, 2000 by Miloš Simović of the Zemun gang.