Mille Marković

Mille Marković
Born Milentije Marković
(1961-06-11)11 June 1961
Kragujevac, Yugoslavia
Died 23 January 2014(2014-01-23) (aged 52)
Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Occupation Boxer, sex club owner

Milentije Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Милентије "Миле" Марковић; 11 June 1961 – 23 January 2014),[1] known as Mille Marković, was a Yugoslavian-born Swedish professional boxer, an owner of a sex club, and a convicted criminal and gangster.[2] He died from gunshot wounds to the head on 23 January 2014 in Ulvsunda, a suburb of Stockholm. [1]

Biography

Marković, an ethnic Serb, was born in Yugoslavia. His mother was murdered when he was three or four years old. He emigrated with his father to Sweden, where he attained citizenship in 1982.[3] Marković was an amateur and professional boxer.[4] in 1977, at age 16, he won the Swedish boxing championship title in the bantamweight division. He later turned professional, fighting in the welterweight division. He retired from professional boxing in 1989.[3][5]

"Club Privé" in Stockholm was once owned by Marković

After his sporting career ended, in the mid-1990s Marković ran a Stockholm sex club called "Club Privé", before ownership was transferred to former policeman Ljubomir Pilipović, and eventually to ex-ice hockey player Michael Badelt. Marković 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]

Marković had fitted a room in his club with hidden cameras and planned to lure celebrities there, film the victims having sex and consuming drugs, and use the footage for blackmail.[7]

In 2008, Marković 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 charged with inciting and planning a shooting on May 10 of that year[8] after a long legal dispute with Michael Badelt.[9]

The charges of attempted murder in connection with the shooting were later dropped after a witness retracted statements during the trial.[10]

Marković was named 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, Marković claimed to be in possession of compromising photographs of the king visiting sex clubs in the 1980s.[13][14] The photograph he reproduced was later proven to be a hoax that had been manipulated electronically from earlier images.[15] In 2012, Beata Hansson and Deanne Rauscher published a biography titled Mille Markovic: the biography.[11]

Death

On 23 January 2014, Marković 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 Marković alive in the driver's seat of his car, but his life could not be saved.[1] Four months later, in May 2014, three people were arrested in connection with the murder of Marković.[16][17] All three suspects were later released.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Cardell, Johanna; Johansson, Henrietta; Drevfjäll, Ludvig; Lennander, Fredrik (23 January 2014). "Mille Marković hittad död – sköts i huvudet" [Mille Marković found dead - shot in the head]. Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Ekelund, Martin (28 January 2011). "Gangster stäms – av F-kassan" [Gangster sued - by the Social Insurance Agency]. Aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Svenberg, Josefin (24 January 2014). "Uppgifter: Marković kan ha filmat sin egen död" [Information: Marković may have filmed his own death]. Metro (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Scandinavian Boxing Rankings - Mille Marković profile, scandinavian-boxing-rankings.dk; accessed 20 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Israelson, Aaron (28 January 2011). "Gangster som satte dit kungen stäms av f-kassan" [Gangster who framed the king sued by the Social Insurance Agency] (in Swedish). Nyheter24.se. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  6. 1 2 Svensson, Anders (10 May 2013). "Mille Marković och Michael Badelt" [Mille Marković and Michael Badelt] (in Swedish). Zaranis.se. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Ekelund, Martin; Johansson, Anders (12 June 2013). "Mille Marković gripen för anstiftan till mordförsök - Misstänks ligga bakom skottlossning mot porrklubb" [Mille Marković arrested for incitement to murder attempt - suspected of gunshots on sex club]. Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  8. ↑ Holender, Robert (15 November 2013). "Mille Marković åtalad för mordplan" [Mille Marković charged with murder plot]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  9. ↑ Drevfjäll, Ludvig; Carlsson, Erik (24 January 2013). "Michael Badelt: "Det var bara en tidsfråga"" [Michael Badelt: "It was only a matter of time"]. Expressen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  10. ↑ Malm, Sara (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. 1 2 "Rykten kallas research i boken om Marković" [Rumors called research in the book about Marković]. Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 21 January 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2014. (subscription required (help)).
  12. ↑ McDonald-Gibson, Charlotte (24 January 2014). "Gangster Mille Marković, 'who had pictures of Swedish king Carl XVI Gustaf in strip club', shot dead in his car". The Independent (London, UK). Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  13. 1 2 Melin, Erik (19 September 2013). "Detta är Mille Marković" [This is Mille Marković]. Aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 January 2014. (subscription required (help)).
  14. ↑ Wiman, Erik; Victorzon, Andreas (3 November 2010). "SKANDAL: FESTERNA" [SCANDAL: THE PARTIES]. Aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  15. ↑ Fröderberg, Magnus. "Så manipulerades bilden på kungen" [How the image of the King was manipulated] (in Swedish). Fotosidan.se. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  16. ↑ Forsberg, Oskar; Johansson, Anders (16 May 2014). "De misstänks för mordet på Mille Marković" [They are suspected of the murder of Mille Marković]. Aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  17. ↑ "Third arrest in Marković murder hunt". SR International – Radio Sweden (Sveriges Radio). 14 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.

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