Goran "Majmun" Vuković ( sr, Горан "Мајмун" Вуковић; 1959 – 12 December 1994) was a Serbian

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who earned his nickname ''Majmun'' ('Monkey') due to his unique style of

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apartment building units: climbing and scaling the structures, utilizing

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and

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s to enter the premises.

Biography

He had spent a considerable amount of time in

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, before becoming the leader of the Voždovac gang back home in Belgrade. He garnered notoriety for killing rival mobster

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(aka Ljuba Zemunac) in

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on 10 November 1986, in front of the local courthouse. For this "murder in defence", he received 2 years and 7 months prison sentence. Magaš was unofficially proclaimed as the godfather of Serbian

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at the time. Vuković received a prison sentence of 5 years for the crime. He later returned to Belgrade. After returning to Belgrade in 1991, he survived five assassination attempts. Such attempts included the bombing of his car as well as two policemen trying to kill him. Due to this, he concluded that the Serbian secret police had a hit-list, and that Romeo Savić was murdered by said police. The reason for Savić's assassination (according to Vuković) is because Savić was openly talking about police drug dealers. Vuković was mentioned in

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's personal diaries. Mladić wrote that Vuković and Duško Malović were involved in the 1994 murder of Serbian reporter Radislava Vujasinović. In December 1994 he was shot in his car near the

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building by three masked assassins, who appeared out of darkness of nearby

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park and opened continuous fire from automatic weapons. Vuković and his bodyguard Duško Malović were found dead.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vukovic, Goran 1959 births 1994 deaths Murdered Serbian gangsters Gangsters from Belgrade Serbian people imprisoned abroad People murdered in Serbia People convicted of murder by Germany Serbian people convicted of murder Date of birth missing 1994 murders in Europe