Members of major gang arrested in Belgrade: They robbed Tamara Ecclestone, Frank Lampard, stole 26 million

Photo: MUP

By order of the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime in coordination with Serbian SBPOK and the police services of the UK, six persons were arrested in Belgrade today after the pre-investigation procedure.

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The suspects' initials are: J.R., M.R., E.R., I.R., L.R. and M.N. They are suspected of having conspired to commit criminal offenses including money laundering. Two suspects are outside the territory of the Republic of Serbia and are currently unavailable to state authorities.

This organized criminal group in the time period from February 2, 2018, until December 15, 2023, formed an organized criminal group in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, which invested the money acquired through criminal activity abroad in the purchase of real estate and thus introduced it into legal cash flows.

It is suspected that the investment in property resulted from criminal activity committed by suspect R.K.R. in Switzerland as well as the criminal activities of suspect LJ.R. in the UK, gained by breaking into a large number of buildings in those two countries that were owned by wealthy victims, when cash and other valuable items were stolen.

The suspect LJ.R. is being prosecuted in the UK on suspicion that he obtained a total of 26 million pounds in this way and thus damaged Frank Lampard, a former English footballer, late Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the former owner of the Leicester football club, and Tamara Ecclestone, the daughter of former Formula 1 owner Bernie Ecclestone, and her husband Jay Rutland.

The suspect R.K.R. has been convicted in Switzerland for committing several burglaries during which he obtained a profit of about 250,000 Swiss francs.

LJ.R. and R.K.R. are suspected of having given the money they obtained through criminal activity to other members of this organized criminal group, who then invested it in expensive real estate in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, as well as in luxury passenger vehicles, and thus tried to integrate the illegally acquired money into legal cash flows.

The investigative procedure in question by JTOK and SBPOK was conducted in coordination with the London Metropolitan Police and the National Crime Agency of Great Britain.

Searches are underway at several locations in the territory of Serbia.

The Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime immediately blocked the accounts and real estate suspected to have been acquired through criminal activity, as well as expensive vehicles.

The suspects are now detained by the police, after which they will be brought before the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime for questioning, along with a criminal complaint.

(Telegraf.rs)