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Thread #122892   Message #3038710
Posted By: Amos
23-Nov-10 - 11:30 AM
Thread Name: Occasional Musical News
Subject: RE: Occasional Musical News
The AP reports that prosecutors say they have evidence that Serbia's folk music diva Svetlana Raznatovic "has embezzled some —2.2 million ($3 million) from the sale of players from her late husband's football club, FK Obilic, to foreign teams.
The Balkan country's most popular folk singer, known as Ceca, also faces charges of illegal possession of firearms at her Belgrade home".

Raznatovic was married to a Serb warlord whose troops killed and pillaged homes of non-Serbs in the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Zeljko Raznatovic was gunned down in a Belgrade hotel in 2000, but Ceca allegedly maintained her husband's connections with Serbia's numerous crime bosses.

I guess it is hard to make a living doing folk music, and new solutions to this problem are always interesting, but this one seems a bit over the top.

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