Dragan "Jokso" Joksović

Dragan 'Jokso' Joksović, (born August 11, 1956 in Pljevlja, PR Montenegro, FPR Yugoslavia, died February 4, 1998 in Stockholm, Sweden), was a Swedish-Serbian mobster. The police believed that Joksović could be called the Stockholm "gangster king", being largely suspected in controlling cigarette smuggling into Sweden and Denmark. Brought to court many times, he wasn't able to be convicted with any offense other than minor drug offenses, assault and abuse of judicial procedure.[1] He was murdered at the Solvalla Horse Racing Track outside Stockholm February 4, 1998 by Finnish hitman Janne Raninen.[2] His lower leg was broken and was then shot to death at three meters' distance. Janne fled the scene but was sooner or later caught by the police.

Joksović's family moved to Titograd shortly after his birth. He grew up in Titograd together with Lazo Delević, with whom he also earned a reputation as a street fighter and muscleman. He came to Sweden in 1979 from the Former Yugoslavia, after beating a military officer in order to avoid prosecution, where he befriended Željko "Arkan" Ražnatović, another Serbian gangster and killer, who later became his godbrother.[1]

He owned several top restaurants in Stockholm and several race horses, going to the race track at least a couple of times a month. Jokso was good friends with associate mobster Ratko Đokić, and acted as mentor to current boss Milan Ševo.[3]

Joksović's assassin shot him in the head twice at close range, then fired two more shots to the body. After his death, Arkan allegedly cried for the first time in his life, saying Jokso was God in Sweden. Joksović's killer was sentenced October 26, 2006 by the Helsinki Court of Appeal to life in prison. The murder of Dragan Joksović was the beginning of a Serbian gang war in Sweden.[4] The hit on Jokso was made by one of Jokso's soldiers Dragan "Kova" Kovač over money issues. Five months later on July 9, 1998, Kova was murdered with a submachine gun outside a Stockholm restaurant in broad daylight.[4][5]

Joksović was physically imposing, and is remembered as one of the strongest of Serbian gangsters. His most notable fight was with Đorđe Božović in the garden of Ratko Đokić's house in Zlatica neighbourhood of Podgorica. Although he backed down first, Giška later recounted that he was "the toughest man he ever fought".

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  1. 1 2 http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/9802/05/krogkung.html Aftonbladet
  2. ↑ http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.1705056/de-ar-domda-for-torpedmord Expressen
  3. ↑ ("Joksovic put Sevo under his wing"), Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2006
  4. 1 2 "KURIR". Arhiva.kurir-info.rs. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
  5. ↑ "Krogmordet uppgörelse i undre världen | Inrikes | SvD" (in Swedish). Svd.se. 2007-09-23. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
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