Serbian Paramilitary group behind daring Swedish Helicopter Bank Heist

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This is a very right wing group. If you remember about a month ago
I posted this story about the robbery.



In a scene that could have been lifted from a James Bond flick, a gang of heavily armed thieves used explosives and a stolen helicopter to pull off a spectacular multimillion-dollar heist in Sweden.

Bandits landed their chopper on the roof of a Stockholm cash depot early Wednesday morning and used their explosives to break in.


About 15 minutes later, they were back on the roof with bags of money and made a quick getaway in the waiting chopper.

Police had tried to stop the robbers - but were foiled before the drama even started.

The crooks had left spikes on the roads near the bank to puncture cops' tires and planted explosives at the police heliport to prevent them from taking off.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/09/23/2009-09-23_bandits_pull_of_daring_multimillion.html#ixzz0VcJ3lyNX



BELGRADE, Serbia — Former Serb paramilitaries took part in last week’s brazen helicopter raid of a cash depot in Stockholm, Serbian police officials said Monday.

Former members of the “Red Berets” paramilitary unit who fought wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s took part in the heist, along with Swedish robbers, said Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, who heads Serbia’s police.

Serbian police “handed certain information about a criminal group which was preparing a robbery” in Stockholm to the Swedish embassy in Belgrade a month ago, but Swedish authorities did not react or contact Belgrade after that, said Milorad Veljovic, a senior Serbian police official.

Masked gunmen used a helicopter in the Hollywood-style heist last Wednesday. They broke through a roof window and setting off explosions inside the building before taking off with an undisclosed amount of cash.

A Swedish court said Monday that six men from the Stockholm area, aged 21 to 36, have been arrested on suspicion of robbery or assisting a robbery. Police spokesman Varg Gyllander said some of the men have criminal records but declined to give further comments. Police didn’t name the suspects in line with Swedish privacy rules. – Associated Press



This is just another example of the cross-over between paramilitary militias and organized crime

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