Powerful Serbian-American Drug Traffickers May Have Ties to Intelligence Agencies

By by Stevan Dojčinović, Pavla Holcová, and Alessia Cerantola for Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

Mileta Miljanić, a Bosnian-born U.S. citizen, is a wanted man in Italy and faces arrest if he so much as changes planes there.

In New York, a 2003 federal indictment of Miljanić remains inexplicably open, with no apparent move to take him to court.

So it’s easy to find the leader of “Group America,” a brutal cocaine trafficking network that operates on at least four continents and is said to be responsible for a dozen murders.

He keeps an apartment in a neat townhouse in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, New York.

His surname is on his doorbell.

Sometimes he even appears on television.

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