Balkan Bandidos bikies visit murder suspect mate in his Serbian hideaway

Bogdan Cuic flew to Thailand a day after the 2012 shooting of Jack Lee, spending a week’s “vacation” in the known Bandidos playground before taking refuge in his family homeland.

Fellow “Balkan Bandidos” from the Brisbane Centro chapter shortly after followed Cuic’s steps to Thailand and then to Serbia, where police believe they met Cuic.

Homicide Squad Detective Superintendent Steve Holahan said police believed a number of Cuic’s relatives and friends “would know where he is and be in contact with him’’.

 

Detectives looking to pinpoint Cuic’s whereabouts rely on co-operation from counterparts in the Australian Federal Police and in Serbia, a country with which Australia has no extradition treaty.

Adding to the difficulties, Cuic’s family is tied to a powerful ­Serbian nationalist group, the Chetnik Foundation.

 

 

Supt Holahan said Cuic was “a person of significant interest” to the Lee investigation.

“We are very interested in locating him and asking him about his knowledge of everything,” he said.

Lee was shot in the head after allegedly going to meet a silver BMW to buy $17,000 worth of cocaine at an Eight Mile Plains shopping centre in April 2012.

It is understood the BMW, later dumped at Riverhills, had been driven for months by Cuic, an unemployed plasterer.

Cuic’s brother Bosko ­faces extortion charges over an alleged Bandidos extortion racket, with the ­matter recently mentioned in Brisbane Magistrates Court.

Before fleeing, Cuic lived in Forest Lake in Brisbane’s southwest with his grandfather Milan, president of the local Chetnik Foundation.

After Cuic fled, his grandfather sold the house and moved to Serbia with his wife.

Among those who posted pictures online of their Thai holiday en route to Serbia was ex-Centro president George Bejat.

Holiday snaps showed the Bandidos sunning themselves and partying in bars and nightclubs in Phuket.