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The Independent
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Mille Markovic
The Independent
The underworld figure who claimed to have compromising photographs of
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf enjoying the hospitality at his notorious
strip club has been shot dead in Stockholm.
Mille Markovic, a Serbian-Swedish businessman with a string of criminal convictions, was found slumped in his vehicle outside his home with gunshot wounds to his head, the Aftonbladet and Expressen newspapers reported. Witnesses said the shots were fired from another vehicle on Thursday evening, before the assailants sped off.
While police have not officially confirmed the victim’s identity, he has been widely named as 52-year-old Markovic, a man against whom many people held a grudge.
“He was involved in many conflicts on many different levels and had many enemies,” Jerzy Sarnecki, a criminology professor at Stockholm University, told the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.
The former boxer had been convicted and imprisoned for a range of crimes including tax evasion, weapons charges, assault, fraud and blackmail. But it was his role in the scandal that engulfed the royal family through much of 2011 which cemented his notoriety in Sweden.
It began with the publication of a biography, The Reluctant Monarch, in late 2010, which contained lurid allegations about the King’s private life and portrayed him as a serial philander with a taste for sex parties and strip clubs. One of those establishments was Club PrivĂ©, a Stockholm nightspot run at the time by Markovic. He was believed to be a key source for the book and claimed to have photographic evidence of the King’s visits.
Mille Markovic, a Serbian-Swedish businessman with a string of criminal convictions, was found slumped in his vehicle outside his home with gunshot wounds to his head, the Aftonbladet and Expressen newspapers reported. Witnesses said the shots were fired from another vehicle on Thursday evening, before the assailants sped off.
While police have not officially confirmed the victim’s identity, he has been widely named as 52-year-old Markovic, a man against whom many people held a grudge.
“He was involved in many conflicts on many different levels and had many enemies,” Jerzy Sarnecki, a criminology professor at Stockholm University, told the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.
The former boxer had been convicted and imprisoned for a range of crimes including tax evasion, weapons charges, assault, fraud and blackmail. But it was his role in the scandal that engulfed the royal family through much of 2011 which cemented his notoriety in Sweden.
It began with the publication of a biography, The Reluctant Monarch, in late 2010, which contained lurid allegations about the King’s private life and portrayed him as a serial philander with a taste for sex parties and strip clubs. One of those establishments was Club PrivĂ©, a Stockholm nightspot run at the time by Markovic. He was believed to be a key source for the book and claimed to have photographic evidence of the King’s visits.
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