Alexander Vuciqi smuggler sends weapons to Al-Qaeda

The list, along with Kun Kim from Cambodia and government officials from Venezuela, included the name of Slobodan Tessiq, a Serb citizen born in Kiselak.

Tessic was targeted by the UN and international institutions for about 15 years because of arms smuggling in Asian and African countries under international embargo.

But even more interesting is that some of these weapons went to the world through the port of Rijeka in Croatia, and one of the shipments was confiscated by Croatian customs officers in 2013. Thesic then claimed there was no connection to the weapons, because “has not operated throughout Rijeka at least 5 to 7 years”. But by that year, Tessic's weapons had been sent many times to different countries in Africa and Asia, and they had gone through Rijeka will remain a secret.

The U.S. Treasury Department report mentions that Tessic had collaborators who either cooperated with him or on his behalf directed various companies that he secretly managed and made strategic decisions and made deals.

In addition to Tasic, four companies are mentioned in the report: Partizan Tech LLC Belgrade (Savski Venac), then Technoglobal Systems DOO Belgrade (Technoglobal), Charso Limited and Women Limited.

The reason for sanctions is involvement in serious human rights and corruption violations, December 2017. At the time, Tesic was among the biggest arms and ammunition dealers in the Balkans and was on the list of UN bans for nearly a decade. Travels to breach UN sanctions for arms exports to Libya. Tessic paid his customers expensive vacations, educated their children at schools or Western universities, and gave a big bribe to make contact. Along with him, the report also mentions his associates, Goran Andric, as one of Tessiq's closest associates, who represented him for various international sale, including conducting negotiations, while Tesic was on the list of UN travel bans. Then, there is Nebojsa Sharenac, as CEO of Technoglobal and Partizan Tech, or Tesic's grandson, and Zoran Petrov q, Partizan Tech's general manager, and Nikola Brkiq, the leading man and legal representative of Partizan Tech.

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Moreover, they are Milan Subotic, owner, general manager and representative of Serbia-based Vecura Trans LLC (Vecture Trans), which is at the same time designated as the property of Tessic or under his control and works directly for him.

The public learned about 61-year-old Tessic in October 2002. Already, Americans wonder whose companies were violating the UN embargo for Iraq?

They claimed that Jugoimport was providing assistance to Iraqis in their missile programmes, and that companies included Infinity, Bruner, GSV, Temex and Interdeal.

Temex enrolled at the Trade Court in Belgrade and was founded by Slobodan Tasic. When asked by reporters for comments, Tesic said his company was working with Liberia, which was also under embargo.

My company repeatedly violated the embargo a few months ago because of tactical weapons export”, as Americans said. My company exported six cargo planes to Liberia under UN sanctions a month ago, which was a problem at the time. The UN Security Council discussed my case on October 3rd or 4th. They sent information to the U.S. Department of Defense and Foreign Affairs demanding that my business be revised. I consider it an attempt to retaliate against someone in the current government. I didn't do business with Iraq,” said Tessic in 2002.

In May 2003, a text that discovered what Tessic had sold to this African country was first published by Reuters. “Thousands of automatic rifles, hand grenades and land mines originating from Serbia have ended up in Liberia, violating UN Security Council sanctions”, Reuters wrote, citing a report by a United Nations working group tasked with tracking weapons tracks in West Africa.

A group of independent investigators, appointed by the UN Security Council, reported at the time that they suspected that 50 tonnes of other military equipment from Serbia would reach Liberia via Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In addition to listed weapons, in Liberia, Serbia distributed machine guns, pistols and millions of bullets from different calibres.

Several Serbian companies are suspected of smuggling weapons, Temex from Belgrade respectively, and director Slobodan Tasic, and öInterug AS) and businessman Orhan Dragas, otherwise Tessic's close friend and partner, but also Jovan Aleksic, pilot of the Avivogenex.

The largest quantities of weapons and equipment, according to investigators, arrived in mid-July and August 2002 with false documents, under which the gun had been thought of Nigeria and supplied through Belgrade-based KHEMex.

The report also said that a Slobodan Tesic appointed by Temex, which was discovered by investigators as a major sanction, travelled by charter to Liberia with Orhan Dragas and pilot Jovan Aleksic, but Tesic denied that he had ever been to Liberia. But with the help of Serbian authorities, investigators found that he was still staying at a hotel in Monrovia, and at the same time, a Lockheed plane was rented by Ducor Field Airlines at the airport.

Ducor Ward Airlines Director Duane Egli told investigators at the time that the crew at Belgrade airport was exposed to physical threats and was forced to fly to Liberia. But this Egli statement is highly suspicious, as someone can read from forums since then that Elgli was also a arms dealer and had a passport of the African state Zair and was later based in Miami, Florida. So according to the EU embargo was imposed and the company is closed.

Before becoming a arms dealer, Tessic, who lived in Bosnia until the early 1990s, worked as a contractor. He won his first capital through business relations with the leadership of Republika Srpska when he did business with weapons.

Since 2009, it has also registered a arms trade company in BiH, but Tessic lives in Belgrade, in the Dedinje elite neighbourhood. His company is employed mainly by former officers, including Dragan Ilic, who at the time of Vlajko Stoilkovic and criminal Slobodan Milosevic was chief of the criminal police.

Over the next three years, several other articles were written regarding Tessic and his arms exports to Libya, and later in 2012, he was found to be one of the main sponsors of the Serbian Progressive Party, where from the same party Aleksandar Vuciq became president of Serbia. The text was published in April 2012, and a month later, Aleksandar Vuciq became the first deputy prime minister and defence minister.

From this point on, he has also contacted Slobodan Tessic since he headed the competent arms trade department. In fact, Tessic pushed his daughter Daniela to 96th place on the Serbian Progressive Party election list, but since the SNS did not form power itself, she could not enter Parliament.

Meanwhile, Tessic spent his business in Bosnia, in 2015 the new arms scandal he had sent for the al-Qaeda terrorist network in Libya.

Let's go back to the past. April 2013. The top Libyan delegation is for an official visit to Serbia. The delegation is headed by Khaled Sharif a long-standing Al-Qaeda official who fought side by side with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Sharif in Belgrade was received by a senior Serbian Army delegation and Slobodan Tasic was a member of the delegation, when he was on the UN blacklist. Thanks to that visit, Serbia signed a arms export treaty worth $149m in Libya. The exporter was the Serbian state-owned company Yugoimport, and the last beneficiary is the Libyan Defence Ministry,”, says Stevan Nikchevic, state secretary of the Serbian Ministry of Commerce.

Nikchevic cannot remember whether Khaled Sharif was also a signatory, but claims all documents were checked by the UN Sanctions Committee and that the certificate issuer was authorising.

The Cyprus sub-contractor was the mediator in this business. The company was called Charso and we had a request to check who owned it. Official information says the owner is a Cypriot citizen. We have no official information on who is behind the company, “said Nikchev for the TIP at the time.

Just days later, it was learned that the real owner of the Charso company from Cyprus was Slobodan Tasic. TIP has discovered some more interesting details. Tessic used the name "Yugoimport" to buy weapons in BiH and his business partners, according to intelligence services, were BNT His newly opened TMH and ADTR from Bratunac.