Mille Markovic

Mille Markovic
Born Milentije Markovic
11 June 1961
Kragujevac, Yugoslavia
Died 23 January 2014 (aged 52)
Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Occupation Boxer, sex club owner

Milentije "Mille" Markovic (11 June 1961 – 23 January 2014)[1] was a Yugoslavian-born Swedish professional boxer, an owner of a sex club and a convicted criminal and gangster.[2] He died on 23 January 2014 in Ulvsunda, a suburb of Stockholm, of gunshot wounds to the head.[1]

Biography

Markovic, an ethnic Serbian, was born in Yugoslavia. His mother was murdered when he was three or four years old. He immigrated with his father to Sweden, where he attained citizenship in 1982.[3]

Markovic was an amateur and professional boxer,[4] winning the Swedish boxing championship title in the bantamweight division in 1977 when he was just 16. He later turned professional, fighting in the welterweight division. In 1989, he retired from professional boxing.[3][5]

"Club Privé" in Stockholm was once owned by Markovic

After his sporting career ended, in the mid-1990s Markovic ran a Stockholm sex club called "Club Privé", before ownership was transferred to Ljubomir Pilipovic, a former policeman, and eventually to Michael Badelt, an ex-ice hockey player. Markovic was convicted of criminal charges on several occasions.[3] In June 1995, he was convicted and sentenced to a one-year jail term for using or attempting to use extortion and inflicting serious damage.[6] He had prepared a room in his club with hidden cameras, planning to lure celebrities there, film the victims having sex and consuming drugs, and use the footage for blackmail.[7] In 2008 he was convicted of serious tax and accounting fraud, weapons and drugs offences and receiving stolen goods. In late 2009, he was sentenced on two counts of assault and drug offences.[6] In 2011, he was convicted of fraudulently receiving social benefits on the pretext that he was sick and unemployed.[3] In 2013, he was also charged with inciting and planning a shooting on May 10 of that year[8] after a long legal dispute between him and Michael Badelt, the then owner of "Club Privé".[9] But the charges of attempted murder in connection with the shooting were later dropped after a witness retracted statements during the trial.[10]

Markovic's name came up as one of the alleged sources[11][12] for Thomas Sjöberg, Deanne Rauscher and Tove Meyer's controversial biography of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf – Den motvillige monarken, which was published in November 2010.[13] In May 2011, Markovic claimed to be in possession of compromising photographs of the king visiting sex clubs in the 1980s.[13][14] The photo he reproduced was later proven to be a hoax, manipulated electronically from earlier available photos.[15]

In 2012, Beata Hansson and Deanne Rauscher published a biography titled Mille Markovic. Biografin about him.[11]

Death

On 23 January 2014, Markovic was shot in the head four times and fatally wounded by two unknown assailants in Ulvsunda, a western suburb of Stockholm near his home. Swedish police found him alive in the driver's seat of his car, but his life could not be saved.[1] In May of the same year three individuals were arrested in connection with Markovic murder.[16][17] All three suspects were later released.

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Mille Markovic hittad död – sköts i huvudet". Expressen (in Swedish). 23 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Ekelund, Martin (28 January 2011). "Gangster stäms – av F-kassan". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Uppgifter: Markovic kan ha filmat sin egen död" (in Swedish). Metro Stockholm. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Scandinavian Boxing Rankings - Mile Markovic page
  5. ↑ "Gangster som satte dit kungen stäms av f-kassan" (in Swedish). Nyheter24.se. 28 January 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Zaranis.se: Anders Svensson article - "Mille Markovic och Michael Badelt" (Swedish)
  7. ↑ Martin Ekelund and Anders Johansson (12 June 2013). "Mille Markovic gripen för anstiftan till mordförsök - Misstänks ligga bakom skottlossning mot porrklubb" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  8. ↑ Holender, Robert (15 November 2013). "Mille Markovic åtalad för mordplan". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  9. ↑ Ludvig Drevfjäll and Erik Carlsson (24 January 2013). "Michael Badelt: "Det var bara en tidsfråga"". Espressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  10. ↑ Sara Malm (24 January 2014). "Swedish gangster who claimed he had photos of the king in compromising sexual situations is found dead with four bullet wounds to the head". The Daily Mail. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Rykten kallas research i boken om Markovic" (in Swedish). Svd. 21 January 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  12. ↑ Charlotte McDonald-Gibson (24 January 2014). "Gangster Mille Markovic ‘who had pictures of Swedish king Carl XVI Gustaf in strip club’ shot dead in his car". The Independent, London. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Melin, Erik (19 September 2013). "Detta är Mille Markovic". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  14. ↑ "Torpeden Mille Markovic talar ut om nätterna på svartklubben i boken "Den motvillige monarken": "Det är för jävligt"" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 3 November 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  15. ↑ Fotosidan: Så manipulerades bilden på kungen (Swedish)
  16. ↑ "De misstänkts för mordet" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  17. ↑ "Third arrest in Markovic murder hunt". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 21 May 2014.