Picture published when criminal Arkan robbed a bank in Sweden 40 years ago

Photographs taken from the bank's security footage, which was robbed in 1979 by Zeljko Raznatovic, known as Arkan, have stemmed from Swedish police archives 40 years after the event.

Photos are published by the Antena M portal and, according to Interpol, the Arkan gang committed two successive robberies in Sweden (Stockholm and Gotthenburg) at the time and then fled to the Netherlands. They were arrested there in October of that same year.

Swedish police claimed that besides Arkan, Carlo Fabija and Slobodan Kole Kostovski were involved in the gang.

For Carlo Fabian, they claim he was actually Giovanni Di Stefano, who appeared in the company of Arkan in Belgrade in the early 1990s as a businessman with the dubious reputation, likely owner of the studio “Metro Goldvin Maier” and popular Radio “Pingin”.

While 66-year-old Kostovski, born in Novi Pazar (Serbia), has continued his troubled criminal career.

According to Dutch media, last year he escaped from Brazil prison while receiving medical treatment.

He was sentenced to 19 years there for smuggling cocaine, and Interpol issued an arrest order of <x0-> red-hot” for him.

Arkan was killed in 2000 before facing the UN war crimes tribunal in connection with the genocide of thousands of Croats and Bosniaks in the early 1990s.

He was known for his career as head of an organized crime group that had committed robbery in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Despite links to murder and organized crime, his family has enjoyed a luxurious life - style.