Five TEFAF robbery suspects added to Europe’s Most Wanted; Sky ECC lead points to earlier attempt
On 29 October, Dutch police and prosecutors added five suspects in the multimillion-euro TEFAF art-fair robbery in Maastricht to Europe’s Most Wanted list. Police say recently obtained Sky ECC information links at least one of them to an earlier attempt.
They are Aleksandar Cenic, Aleksandar Stojiljkovic and Dusko Dimitrijevic, all 50, and Bratislav Stojanovic and Ninoslava Jovic, both 41. The five Serbian suspects have been internationally wanted since April and are also on the Dutch national wanted list. Display cases containing valuable jewellery were violently broken open during the robbery on 28 June 2022.
Police and prosecutors believe the suspects are in Niš or near Belgrade. International cooperation supported by Europol and Eurojust has not yet led to their arrests. Police say extradition from Serbia is unavailable and hope for information about travel to other countries. Prosecutors offer €20,000 for information leading to an arrest.
The investigation team recently received Sky ECC information through Europol concerning an earlier attempted robbery at TEFAF in March 2020. At least one of the five is linked to it. Three stolen diamonds have been recovered: in Hong Kong, Israel and, earlier this year, Botswana.
