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Former Serbian Military Part of Swedish Chopper Robbery
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 set 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.