Word: milorad
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...when the original plot to kill only his bodyguard was hijacked by foreign agents. For six months, the trial of 13 alleged conspirators accused of killing the pro-reform Prime Minister has served mainly to stoke the rumor mill. The testimony last week of the infamous ex-paramilitary boss Milorad Lukovic - the man police say orchestrated the hit - seemed calculated to send the proceedings spinning out of control. Before his court appearance, Lukovic's attorney had promised his client would provide "irrefutable evidence" proving who was behind the killing. Instead, Lukovic, known to his friends as "Legija" for his time...
...SURRENDERED. MILORAD LUKOVIC, 39, former paramilitary leader suspected of masterminding the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic; in Belgrade. Lukovic, a onetime backer of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic, headed a feared antiterrorist police unit called the Red Berets. After Milosovic's 2000 fall from power, Lukovic initially supported Djindjic's administration, but he was soon removed from his police post...
...majority. Out of power and with their leader incarcerated in the Hague, the Socialists were considered a spent force. But Kostunica's embrace has brought them back to life. "We have proved that we are ready to take a constructive role in Serbia's future," proclaimed a grinning Milorad Vucelic, who runs the party in Milosevic's absence. The political price of the DSS-SPS alliance could be high. It will certainly cost Kostunica the cooperation of the Democrats. "The vote turned the clock back to Oct. 4, 2000," Tadic said, referring to the day before Milosevic was toppled...
...massive crackdown against criminal elements of the old regime still operating in Serbia's security forces. Code-named Operation Sabre, the investigation into Djindjic's murder has produced truck loads of evidence for the special prosecutor's office. The conspirators, police say, were led by two men: Milorad (Legija) Lukovic, still at large, and Dusan Spasojevic, who was killed resisting arrest. Both men served with the Red Berets, which has been linked to war crimes and now to dozens of political murders under the Milosevic regime. So far, 45 conspirators have been charged in the assassination. The sweep has turned...
...Those roots run deep. According to police charges made public last week, the conspirators were led by two men: Milorad "Legija" Lukovic, who is still at large, possibly overseas, and Dusan Spasojevic, who was killed resisting arrest. Both men served with the Red Berets, a special unit of Serbian state security linked to war crimes and, now, to dozens of political murders under the Milosevic regime. Legija was "a killer paid by the state," according to Kandic, and had been running a drug trafficking and extortion ring out of the tiny Belgrade suburb of Zemun. The group had infiltrated...