{"id":198373,"date":"2026-01-16T23:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=198373"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:14:27","slug":"brutal-murder-of-zivko-bakic-former-footballer-and-drug-boss-liquidated-in-a-forest-near-belgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/brutal-murder-of-zivko-bakic-former-footballer-and-drug-boss-liquidated-in-a-forest-near-belgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"BRUTAL MURDER OF \u017dIVKO BAKI\u0106: Former Footballer and Drug Boss Liquidated in a Forest Near Belgrade!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u017divko Baki\u0107 (43), who was killed during a regular walk while wearing an ankle monitor in a forest near Sopot, as Kurir<\/em> reveals, was under house arrest as he was on trial before the Special Court in Belgrade for smuggling 324 kilograms of cocaine from South America to Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baki\u0107, who was once a footballer, is suspected of having been a member of the Balkan cartel and allegedly entered the drug business through his friend and associate Zoran Jak\u0161i\u0107, known as the \u201cman with 1,000 faces,\u201d who died last year under unclear circumstances in a prison in Peru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to unofficial information, Baki\u0107 is suspected of having purchased drugs in Ecuador directly from producers, while Jak\u0161i\u0107 was his \u201cmain contact person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 \u017divko Baki\u0107 is charged by the indictment with, together with his group, from 2020 to 2021, using a well-developed scheme of transoceanic cocaine smuggling from South America, purchasing drugs from an unknown producer through his friend and close associate Zoran Jak\u0161i\u0107 and other unidentified persons, and then loading the \u201cgoods\u201d onto transoceanic ships that further transported the hidden drugs to Europe \u2013 says a Kurir<\/em> source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As suspected, Jak\u0161i\u0107 and Baki\u0107 maintained contact via the Sky application even while the \u201cman with 1,000 faces\u201d was in a Peruvian prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baki\u0107 and his criminal group were arrested in September 2023, and he was previously known as a footballer and allegedly lived in Ibiza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incidentally, one of his closest associates, Sa\u0161a Mom\u010dilovi\u0107, was also killed in August 2024 near Marbella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a reminder, the body of \u017divko Baki\u0107 was found around 4 p.m. in a forest, and it is suspected that he was killed with two gunshots. Police officers and a prosecutor from the Higher Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Belgrade are on the scene, and an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Apart from drug smuggling, \u017divko Baki\u0107 was also mentioned as one of the leaders of football fan groups \u2013 reveals a Kurir<\/em> source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to unofficial information, the attacker approached Baki\u0107 and fired two shots at him from close range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u017divko Baki\u0107 (43), who was killed during a regular walk while wearing an ankle monitor in a forest near Sopot, as Kurir reveals, was under house arrest as he was on trial before the Special Court in Belgrade for smuggling 324 kilograms of cocaine from South America to Europe. Baki\u0107, who was once a footballer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":198374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10737,253,10738,1963,5051,10739,10411,1057,113,10740,10741],"class_list":["post-198373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","tag-balkanski-kartel","tag-beograd","tag-diler","tag-droga","tag-juzna-amerika","tag-narko-bos","tag-sopot","tag-spanija-2","tag-srbija","tag-suma","tag-zivko-bakic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198387,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198373\/revisions\/198387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}