Dr. Alexander von Paleske— 3-Nov- 2010 —
On 23rd October 2008 a bomb exploded in the Stara Vlaska Street of Zagreb, capital city of Croatia, killing the top journalist and editor of the weekly Nacional, Ivo Pukanic, and his marketing director Niko Franjic, wounding several others.
Pukanic was famous for his investigative reports. Top on his list: the Croatian and Serbian Mafia.

Murdered: Investigative Journalist Ivo Pukanic

Seven of the eight suspects in the murder case were arrested . Mastermind of the conspiracy was allegedly a Serbian mafia boss by the name of Sreten Jocic. He allegedly was given 1,6 million Euro to do the „job“.

Murder for hire: Sreten Jocic alias Joca Amsterdam

After a trial, that lasted 9 months, 6 of the 8 accused murderers, however not Sreten Jocic so far – he is being tried separately – were convicted today (3rd November 2010),and sentenced to between 15 and 40 years imprisonment.

During his trial, Jocic claimed, that a connection exists between the murder of Pukanic and the scandal riddled Austrian bank Hypo-Alpe-Adria.

Who is Sreten Jocic alias Joca Amsterdam?
Sreten Jocic was born on 24th October 1962 in what was then Jugoslavia , now Serbia.
After finishing school, he did his compulsory military service and declared himself an “anticommunist”, something not very popular with the authorities at that time.

He deserted from the army and left for Austria, found relatively soon a new home amongst the Jugo-gangsters in Austria, who often posed as political refugees.

Jocic allegedly got busy stealing and robbing. Eventually the Austrian police was after him, accusing him of being involved in the murder of three policemen.

Time to leave and settle in Germany
Frankfurt(M) / Germany has been all along a favorite destination for Jugo-Gangsters, that’s where Jocic went, and got soon in contact with two resident top Jugo-Gangsters by the name of Ljubomior Magas alias Ljubomir Zemiunac and Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan.These gangsters in turn introduced Sreten Jocic to a Jugo Mafiosi by the name of Duje Becirovic.

A Jugo-Gangster named Becirovic
Becirovic was wanted by the German Police for numerous crimes, however he managed to escape to the Netherlands not for starting an honest life, but to become the boss of the Jugo-Gangsters there.

Becirovic positioned himself on the drug market in Amsterdam, Jocic became his bodyguard, then his confidante, finally his deputy in the Jugo-Gangster syndicate.

Becirovic became known for killing those, who stood in his way on the drug market and, as an additional “service”: murder for hire.

And for the first time, certainly not for the last, Sreten Jocic appeared in press reports after he killed a “colleague” in an Amsterdam sex-club.

However, not unusually in the criminal underworld, Becirovic had a major financial dispute, this time with a prominent Dutch gangster boss by the name of Klaas Bruinsma. Major conflicts are settled in the underworld normally not with the help of the police or the courts, but with guns instead.
Bruinsma gave the order to execute Becirovic.

The Deputy becomes the Chef
After Becirovic’s death, Sreten Jocic became his successor and earned himself the nickname Joca Amsterdam.

Jocic, now in charge of the Jugo-gang, decided that the time for Bruinsma had come to say goodbye to the world. He allegedly ordered the execution of Bruinsma as a revenge for the murder of his former boss and godfather Becirovic.

Klaas Bruinsma was killed in June 1991.

A Prince of Holland and the Mabelgate
Let’s dwell for a moment on Klaas Bruinsma, who was not only the top Dutch gangster at that time, but also the lover of a woman by the name of Mabel Wisse Smit, who, after his death fell in love with another criminal by the name Muhamed Sacirbey. Eventually she fell in love with and then married Prince Johan Friso, son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

In cohort with her prospective husband, she tried to hide her illustrious past, thereby causing a big scandal named the Mabelgate.

„Mrs. Mabelgate“ Princess Mabel of Orange Nassau

It was not the first scandal, though, in the royal household.
Already the father of Queen Beatrix, Prince Bernhard, once member of Nazi Germany’s SS, became embroiled in the Lockheed bribing scandal in the 70s, by accepting large amounts of money in return for supporting the acquisition of the Lockheed Starfighter F 104 by the Dutch army, a plane, that made headlines for not infrequently falling from the skies.

Back to Jocic
Jocic, after killing a Dutch national, appeared now clearly on the radar screens of the Dutch police, who, apparently up to then had turned a rather blind eye to all the criminal activities of the Jugo-Gangsters, including their killings.

They got an arrest warrant, and finally arrested Jocic, not before he tried to resist the arrest by shooting at the police and wounding one of their officers.

Next Stop: Romania
Sreten Jocic, now better known as Joca Amsterdam, did not stay very long in a Dutch prison. He escaped to Romania together with a Romanian criminal by the name of Ile Priescu.

Not long after his arrival, not only in the country but also in Romania’s drug dealing underworld, he got an invitation from the former Serbian leader and war criminal Slobodan Milosevic.

A former member of the Jugo-Criminal-Gang in Frankfurt (M)/Germany by the name of Zeljko Arkan, whom we mentioned already, had recommended him strongly and Joca turned out not to be a disappointment, at least for that, what Milosevic had in mind.

Milosevic tasked Jocic to bring goods into Serbia, goods, that had been put on an embargo list by the UN. This was supposed to be facilitated by importing them officially into Romania or Bulgaria, and from there ship them to Serbia.

At the same time Milosevic gave him a free hand to continue with whatever criminal activities Joca Amsterdam had in mind, and a lot he had.

Jocic also was equipped with a membership card of the Serbian secret service.

He delivered to Milosevic and at the same time continued to smuggle drugs from Asia into Europe, especially into the Netherlands.

Willem Holleeder comes on stage
However another criminal, who took over the vacant position of Netherland’s top gangster after Bruinsma died, was determined to chop of the head of Bruinsma’s killer.

His name: Willem Holleeder.

He had been in prison for some time for the kidnapping of beer brewer Alfred Heineken (Heineken beer). After his release he not only became the top gangster, but also fostered friendship with the Dutch high society. His big friend in those circles was the filthy rich Jan-Dirk Paarlberg, who allegedly laundered money for Holleeder.

Paarlberg’s very, very close female friend until 2006 was the Dutch politician and EU-Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who had the wonderful privilege to discharge her stressful duties from one of Paarlberg’s presentable palaces, free of charge – of course.

Dangerous Liason: EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes

Willem Holleeder hired a Serbian hitman by the name of Goran Marjanovic to kill Jocic.
However, Jocic got wind of that plot and hired two Serbian policeman to kill Marjanovic instead, which they did on 18.5. 1995. The policemen got arrested after a second crime with the same weapons and spilled the beans.

Time for Jocic to hurriedly leave Serbia for Columbia. There he established new drug- business contacts and new transport routes.

Jocic back in Europe
He returned back to Europe in 1999, this time with a new identity and his family.

He quickly established himself in the Bulgarian underworld, but did not forget some of his old enemies in the Netherlands. October 2000 was the final month for Dutch criminal Sam Klepper.

Another criminal from the Bruinsma-time and gang, John Mieremet, now feared for his life and offered Jocic 10 million Deutsche Mark (5 Million Euro) in return for being “pardoned”.
Jocic agreed. The transfer of the money was supposed to go through Holleeder, however Holleeder, in violation of the “contract”, took much more commission than agreed upon, thus “defrauding” Jocic and Mieremet.

After getting too many complaints, Holleeder apparently gave the order to execute Mieremet in Thailand.

Holleeder, still baying for revenge of Bruinsma’s murder, gave a tip off to the Dutch police telling them the whereabouts of Jocic.

On request of the Dutch police, Jocic got arrested, pending extradition to the Netherlands.
He unsuccessfully offered to pay off all Bulgarian foreign debt in return for his release. Jocic was eventually extradited to the Netherlands. There he served his prison sentence in a maximum security prison for the attempted murder of a policeman.

From inside the prison, Jocic allegedly ordered the murder of some Bulgarian Mafiosi, including gangsterboss Milcho Bonev and his five bodyguards.

In 2006 he was finally extradited to Serbia, where he was wanted for the murder of Holleeder’s hitman.

Jocic, however, was quickly set free on bail and decided, to become a more respectable citizen, investing in former state owned companies and residing in a presentable villa, once belonging to Slobodan Milosevic, who died in 2006 before his war crime trial was concluded. Still, however, being a bit busy in the underworld and allegedly accepting „murder for hire“ jobs in Europe.

Milosevic-Villa in Belgrade

Today, after a trial that lasted nine months, six of Jocic’s co-accused were convicted for the murder of investigative journalist Ivo Pukanic, former editor of the Croatian weekly Nacional.

However, the real background of the Pukanic murder case – who in the end paid Sreten Jocic, whether or not the Austrian Scandal Bank Hypo-Alpe-Adria was involved – is still waiting to be uncovered.

Hypo-Alpe-Adria-Bank (Scandalpe): Update of the Scandal
Hypo-Alpe-Adria – A Bank-Scandal in Austria

Joca Amsterdam (Sreten Jocic) oder: die Blutspur eines Mafiosi durch Europa
BayernLB Ex-Tochter Hypo Alpe Adria Bank in Journalistenmord verwickelt?
Wie ein Söldner resozialisiert und Hollands Oberschicht kriminalisert wurde

Dr. Alexander von Paleske 2 -Nov-. 2010 — In 2007 we published a comprehensive report about the Austrian Scandal-Bank Hypo Alpe Adria (Scandalpe).

What happened since
Since the last report quite a bit of development has taken place, that, as we do believe, is worth while reporting.

Meanwhile the ownership of the Scandal-bank is back home in Austria, the former CEO in prison,apparently plenty shady deals have surfaced, allegedly taken place before and during the German ownership, the now former owner, the BayernLB has been herself hard hit by the World Financial Crisis and accumulated more than 15 billion Euro in debts, that had to be settled with taxpayers money, and, as a consequence, forced the German State of Bavaria to cut its subsidies to the institutions of higher education (i.e. universities).

Let’s have a closer look–
After the majority of shares of Hypo-Alpe were taken over by the BayernLB, for 1.6 billion Euro in May 2007, another 2,1 billion Euro were pumped into the Austrian bank by the Bavarian parastatal, with the intention, to make it more viable.

However these injections did not make the „lame duck” run. To the contrary, basically the bank turned out to be a bottomless pit with no end in sight.

Finally, after 2 1/2 years of unhappy, stressful and expensive ownership, the BayernLB got rid of its daughter by selling it back to Austria , this time to the government of Austria – for a symbolic 1 Euro, thus incurring a total loss of 3,7 Billion Euro.

However another 3,1 billion Euro worth of loans from the BayernLB are still to be paid back by the Hypo-Alpe, from 2013 onwards, provided they can pay……Otherwise the losses of the BayernLB will shoot up to 6.7 billion Euro..

After this relatively „cheap“ acquisition, the government of Austria had, not surprisingly, to pump more money into the bank, this time to the tune of 900 million Euro in order to keep it afloat. The losses of the bank for this year alone, however, are still estimated to be around 1 billion Euro.
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Not the end, perhaps not even the beginning of the end ?
That may well not be the end of it, because the Scandal-Bank (Scandalpe) can claim the ownership of multiple bad debts in its portfolio, totaling allegedly more than 7 billion Euro.

Two parliamentary commissions of inquiry were set up, one in Austria, the other one in Bavaria to find out, what went wrong and who is to blame.

So far it has transpired, that the Directors of the Bavarian LB,( the buyer) went into this costly excursion literally blindfolded at best, or, alternatively colluded with the Austrians at worst.
They disregarded the minimum of due diligence and thus ignoring the fact, that the bank was riddled with loans, that went already or are going to get sour, and that the bank was allegedly involved in all sorts of shady deals predominantly in Croatia including:

– Money laundering

– Arms financing

– Collusion with local politicians in Croatia to acquire pristine land and convert into residential land thus making seemingly good profits,

– Clients like the former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and Ex President Tudjman´s advisers like Ivic Pasalic and Vladimir Zagorec have been preferred clients of that bank, allegedly heavily involved in money laundering.

– Moreover allegedly a lot of loans were given for projects, that turned out to be mainly hot air.

No info, no questions
The supervisory board of the buyer, the BayernLB, that comprised mainly high ranking Bavarian politicians, were allegedly not properly informed, asked allegedly no serious questions and so the disaster took its course.

Meanwhile the former CEO Wolfgang Kulterer has been arrested on allegations of a variety of crimes including fraud. He had already been convicted in 2008 for falsifying the balance sheet of the Scandal-Bank in 2004, while he was still CEO of the Hypo-Alpe (Scandalpe).

Under investigations are also former Hypo-Alpe director Guenter Striedinger and fromer CEO and Investor Tilo Berlin.

More than 50 complaints
More than 50 complaints have so far been lodged with the special prosecutor and his colleagues, mostly by the team now running the bank, apparently uncovering one sheet of dirty linen after the other.

The latest allegation is, however, the most serious one. It comes not from Austria, but from Serbia, where an international drugs dealer and Mafia-Boss by the name of Sreten Jocic alias Joca Amsterdam is standing trial for allegedly having ordered the murder of investigative Journalist Ivo Pukanic on 23rd October 2008 in return for 1,5 million Euro.

In the trial Jocic, about whom we will report in a separate article, mentioned, that the killing of Pukanic has something to do with the transactions of the Hypo Alpe Adria.

It would not come as a surprise, as Ivo Pukanic was targeting in his articles in the Croatian weekly journal Nacional only too often those figures, that we mentioned in connection with the alleged shady deals of the Scandal-Bank Hypo-Alpe-Adria.

Hypo-Alpe-Adria – A Bank-Scandal in Austria
Killing the Journalist or: Sreten Jocic alias Joca Amsterdam – The bloody journey of a Mafia boss across Europe

Dr. Alexander von Paleske —27.10.2010 — Den Universitäten in Bayern geht es bereits an den Kragen. Massive, um nicht zu sagen brutale, Mittelkürzungen sind für nötig erklärt worden, nachdem die Verluste der BayernLB insgesamt fast halb soviel kosten, wie der Freistaat in den letzten 50 Jahren insgesamt an Schulden aufgenommen hat.

Haltet den Dieb
Für die CSU gilt es offenbar, neben den Kürzungen im Hochschulbereich und damit bei den eigentlichen „Zukunftsinvestitionen“, die politisch motivierte Devise „Haltet den Dieb“ zu verbreiten – außerhalb der politischen Führungsebene der CSU versteht sich.

Dazu wird die Strategie verfolgt, mit markigen Worten Schadensersatzklagen anzukündigen.

Zuerst sollte es gegen die ehemalige Tochter Hypo-Skandalpe losgehen, die sich jetzt im Eigentum des Staates Österreich befindet.
Das Nachrichtenmagazin Der SPIEGEL, das offenbar schon bessere investigative Tage gesehen hat, verbreitete fröhlich, dass ein möglicher Schadenersatzanspruch bestehe. Das ist jedoch sachlich sehr zweifelhaft.
Wir hatten jedoch vor einiger Zeit darauf hingewiesen, dass die BayernLB entweder die Katze im Sack eingekauft, oder – noch schlimmer – kollusiv mit den Kärntenern, angeführt vom mittlerweile verstorbenen Rechtsaußen Jörg Haider, zusammengearbeitet hatte.

Von der österreichischen Presse nach der konkreten Klageschrift und dem Gerichtsstand befragt, musste die bayerische Regierung bereits am nächsten Tag kleinlaut einräumen, dass man sich erst „im Stadium der Prüfung“ derartiger Ansprüche befinde .

Also vorerst nichts weiter als heiße Luft.

Gestern wurde nun verkündet, dass man sich am ehemaligen Vorstand der Bayern LB schadlos halten wolle.
Auch deren laufende Bezüge sollen storniert werden.

Dagegen ist sicher nichts einzuwenden. Nur: signifikante Beträge, da weit unterhalb eines zweistelligen Millionenbetrags – wenn überhaupt – angesichts der Schadenssumme von 3,7 Milliarden Euro Peanuts – sind von diesen Herrschaften sicherlich nicht zu holen.

Hier soll wohl eher der kochenden Volksseele ein Ventil geschaffen und durchgreifendes Handeln vorgegaukelt werden.

Ein in Auftrag gegebenes Rechtsgutachten stellt fest, dass der damalige Verwaltungsrat der BayernLB – dort sitzen bzw. saßen viele der CSU-Granden wie Faltlhauser, – sich nichts juristisch Relevantes haben zuschulden kommen lassen, da sie ja vom damaligen Vorstand der BayernLB falsch bzw. völlig unzureichend informiert worden seien.

Man ist versucht zu sagen „Persil hätte nicht weisser waschen können“.
Die Frage ist nur, ob die ehemaligen Vorstandsmitglieder der BayernLB sich auf ein „mea culpa“ einlassen , oder vielmehr versuchen werden, dem Verwaltungsrat auch zumindest einen Teil der Schuld zuzuschieben.
Wir werden sehen.

Skandalpe-Aufräumen geht weiter
Mittlerweile geht das Aufräumen bei der Hypo-Alpe weiter. Dabei stellt sich heraus:

– Im laufenden Jahr sollen etwa eine Milliarde Euro Verlust eingefahren werden.

– Die Bank ist daher klamm und braucht offenbar noch mehr Geld vom Staat.

– Weitere Abwertungen der Liegenschaften auf dem Balkan, aber auch in Mecklenburg Vorpommern (Snowfunpark Wittenburg) drohen.

– Eine vollständige Übersicht über das Kreditportfolio fehlt nach wie vor, da könnte es noch jede Menge unangenehmer neuer Überraschungen geben. Offenbar wurden über 15 Jahre in 12 Ländern auch jede Menge Kredite an „Heißluftartisten“ vergeben, also Investoren, die außer heißer Luft kein wirklich solides Projekt anzubieten hatten.

– Daneben wurde sozusagen alles finanziert, von Supermärkten über Hotels, Einkaufszentren, Biodieselanlagen bis zu Yachten, von den angeblich kriminellen Geschäften mit Drogenhändlern und Serbo-Kroato-Mafiosi ganz zu schweigen.

Mehr Ungemach könnte drohen
Sollte der politische Druck allerdings zunehmen, und die Politik sich doch entschließen, die Fass-ohne-Boden-Bank in den Konkurs bzw. in die Insolvenz rauschen zu lassen, getreu dem Motto: „Ein Ende mit Schrecken ist besser als ein Schrecken ohne Ende“, dann wird es erneut eng. Denn die BayernLB hat Kredite bei der Hypo-Alpe gelassen, Wert: 3,1 Milliarden Euro, die ab 2013 zurückzuzahlen sind.
Die wären im Falle einer Insolvenz auch durch den Schornstein, neben dem bereits vorhandenen Verlust durch Kauf /Verkauf der Prima-Bank in Höhe von 3,7 Milliarden Euro. Summa summarum wären das dann 6,8 Milliarden Euro. Da hilft nur noch Beten, dass dieser Fall bitte nicht eintreten möge.

Den Hochschulen allerdings dürfte, angesichts der Mittelkürzungen, Beten auch nicht mehr weiterhelfen.

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