Serbian folk star Ceca may face up to 12 years in prison
24 November 2010 | Svetlana Raznatovic, one of the most popular pop folk singers of Serbia, may spend up to 12 years behind bars, if the prosecution presses successfully the charges, which yesterday leaked in the press: earning some 3 million USD from illegal sales of football players and illegal possession of firearms.
Ceca's former husband, the warlord Zeljko Raznatovic, also known as Arkan, left her a significant inheritance in Serbian standards, after getting killed in 2000. His name was one of the dark legends of Serbia because of the cruelties his paramilitary troops were known committing during the armed conflicts following the fall of former Yugoslavia. After the end of the military activities he maintained a network of relationships with Serbia's underground world and was for a while one of the suspects in connection with the murder of the former Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
Ceca, who started her career as a singer when she was 15, in 1988, preserved her popularity through the years and far beyong the death of her husband. In 2010 she managed to gather on a concert in Prilep, Macedonia, an audience of 130 000.
The Serbian prosecution is after her for seven years, but still hasn't filed formal charges.
Ceca's former husband, the warlord Zeljko Raznatovic, also known as Arkan, left her a significant inheritance in Serbian standards, after getting killed in 2000. His name was one of the dark legends of Serbia because of the cruelties his paramilitary troops were known committing during the armed conflicts following the fall of former Yugoslavia. After the end of the military activities he maintained a network of relationships with Serbia's underground world and was for a while one of the suspects in connection with the murder of the former Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
Ceca, who started her career as a singer when she was 15, in 1988, preserved her popularity through the years and far beyong the death of her husband. In 2010 she managed to gather on a concert in Prilep, Macedonia, an audience of 130 000.
The Serbian prosecution is after her for seven years, but still hasn't filed formal charges.
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