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The memorandum is being submitted due to the murders of two persons active within the so-called Yugoslavian Mafia (referred to below as the Organization), further described in report number 7.

On March 16 of this year, two deceased people were found in an apartment in Hallonbergen. There are strong suspicions of murder. The Surveillance Group was able to confirm that they were killed using violent force. The Surveillance Group had planned for quite some time to put the apartment under surveillance, as there are suspicions of prostitution being conducted there. The date and time of death of the murdered persons have been established as occurring at some point between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m. on the morning of March 15. The cause of death for both parties was shots fired with a large-caliber shotgun to the stomach and head, respectively. Organic material has been sent to SKL for analysis. The weapon, a shotgun, probably a Winchester repeating rifle, Model 12,.12-80-caliber, has not been identified. Interrogations with people in Hallonbergen have begun. Because of the time of the crime, it is probable that very few people were awake and observed suspects in the area. The Surveillance Group believes that the killings are connected with the internal conflicts within the Organization.

A woman, probably working as a prostitute in the above-mentioned apartment brothel, has also been reported missing since March 13 of this year.

Victims

Zlatko Petrovic:Pimp directly subordinate to Nenad Korhan (in turn subordinate to Radovan Kranjic, described in report number 7), 700712-9131, born in the former Yugoslavia, currently Serbia-Montenegro. Came to Sweden when he was six years old.

Had previously worked as a bouncer and a combat-sport coach. His latest reported income: 124,000 kronor, income from jobs as a combat-sport coach and a bouncer, as well as gambling winnings.

Criminal record is as follows: 1987: assault. 1989: theft, illegal arms possession (served six months in prison). 1990: attempted murder, theft (served six years in prison). 1997: unlawful threats, illegal arms possession, sexual assault (served eight months in prison). 2001: pandering (prostitution), assault (served one year in prison).

Petrovic was considered very violent, especially toward women. Since the end of the 1990s, he was believed to have run one or more brothels in apartments around Stockholm’s outer boroughs with Korhan. Active in Hallonbergen from 2002 until his death.

Over the past three months, the Surveillance Group has tried to infiltrate the operation. The infiltrator (X), under the name Micke, previously focusing on the Organization’s recruitment base, served as “junior pimp,” a so-called whore-watcher, for the prostitute who is currently missing. He has observed a number of suspicious visitors and persons who have approached the prostitute in recent weeks. There is probably a connection between the missing prostitute and the murders. For further information, see X’s report, Attachment 1.

Jelena Lukic:The so-called brothel madam, directly subordinate to Korhan, 720329-0288, born in the former Yugoslavia, currently Serbia-Montenegro. Came to Sweden when she was two years old.

Had previously worked as a masseuse and pedicurist. Her latest reported income was 214,000 kronor, income from investments, jobs as a masseuse, as well as gambling winnings.

Her criminal record includes only traffic violations.

Lukic had been active within the sex-trade industry, involved in pandering, since the end of the 1990s. In 2002, her “stable” of between three and four prostitutes was taken over by Korhan, at which time she began to do business with Petrovic, primarily in the above-mentioned brothel in Hallonbergen. Lukic is also believed to have run a so-called call-girl business with seven or eight women, primarily Swedish citizens. The women within this call-girl business have been rented out for representational events with foreign clients, for example, and as escorts during meetings of gentlemen’s clubs and at private parties.

Internal Conflicts

The Surveillance Group has gathered information that points to the fact that an internal conflict has developed within the Organization. One man within the Organization, active as Radovan Kranjic’s personal bodyguard, has informed the Surveillance Group’s sources that a “cleaning out” of certain persons within the Organization has taken place. Mrado Slovovic (described in report number 7) and Nenad Korhan have been “demoted” and removed from their positions in coat-check racketeering, cocaine sales, and the sex trade in Stockholm. Kranjic has decided that these two are to be moved down in the hierarchy and that their duties and areas of responsibility will be taken over by others. The Surveillance Group’s working hypothesis is that this has all been done in the interest of eliminating threats against Kranjic.

The Surveillance Group believes that the murders of Petrovic and Lukic are connected to the internal conflict described above. X observed that in the days leading up to the murders, the brothel in Hallonbergen was repeatedly visited by an unknown man. The man also contacted the missing prostitute as well as met her outside the brothel on at least one occasion. What took place between them is unclear, since X was not permitted to remain close to the prostitute during their interaction. The man is swarthy, dark-skinned, and around thirty years old. Since March 13 of this year, the prostitute has not been in touch with X, which is why the police have reported her missing. The Surveillance Group is working with several theories as to the motives behind the murders. One is that Kranjic, because of the internal conflict, wants to prevent Korhan from breaking out on his own and starting new prostitution businesses. Another theory is that Korhan and Slovovic committed the murders together in order to destabilize Kranjic’s business empire.

Measures

The Surveillance Group suggests the following measures be taken in response to the report presented above:

1. Continue searching for the thirty-year-old man who met the prostitute on several occasions.

2. Continue searching for the missing prostitute.

3. Search for the rest of the women who are believed to have been active as prostitutes in the brothel.

4. Search for the men who are believed to have purchased sexual services in the brothel.

5. Continue the surveillance work, with a focus on Slovovic and Korhan.

Regarding Budget for the measures, see Attachment 2.

Criminal Investigation Department

Superintendant Björn Stavgård

Special Investigator Stefan Krans

Jorge, qué angst. Been in bed for a week-like sick or something.

Abdulkarim’d asked, “Ey, fuck’s up with you, Jorge? Fever, or what? You gotta keep us rollin’.”

He’d run through that night over and over again. Replayed the events in his mind. Play/rewind-play/rewind. Sometimes, frame by frame. Like a video producer.

The shotgun shots’d been unplanned, dangerous. Dumb as hell.

Went over the situation one more time. Hopefully, he hadn’t left any DNA on the spot. Had just gone in, popped the Yugo pigs, plucked the laptop and the cell phone. Hadn’t touched anything with his hands, even held the door handle with his sweater. Not been in a fight or torn up skin or blood. Had a hat on the whole time-probably hadn’t lost any hairs. Should be clean.

The john would probably keep his mouth shut. If he exposed Jorge, he’d be exposing his own habits. No one else in the apartment’d seen him; the whore in the other room hadn’t even looked up. Had anyone in the area seen him? At four in the morning? The cops would go door-to-door. Ask every neighbor in all of Hallonbergen. There was a risk that someone’d seen him. But that risk was pequeñito. His description would fit thousands of others.