Serbia: A bandit group used a meat grinder to dispose of victims.

Police and forensic experts in Serbia said the criminal gang most likely used an industrial meat grinder to dispose of the bodies of their victims. Several different human DNA samples were found on the machine and the walls of the room. A meat grinder was used by a criminal group in Serbia to dispose of the remains of their victims. Photo: Serbian Interior Ministry.

Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said on Monday that the car was found in a house in the Belgrade suburb of Ritopek. The house was used by the clan of Veljko Belivuk, known as Velja Nevolja, a high-ranking member of one of Montenegro's most notorious criminal clans, Kavac, and his right-hand man Marko Miljakovic.

During a search of the house, which Minister Vulin described as a "house of horrors," police found weapons and explosives, as well as rooms where people were apparently tortured and a hidden chamber with an industrial meat grinder wrapped in thick film. Both Belivuk and Miljakovic were arrested in an operation by Serbian security services and police in early February, along with nearly 20 other suspects, for belonging to an organized crime group that pretended to be a fan club for a soccer team but actually committed serious crimes including kidnapping, murder, extortion and drug trafficking. "No crime of the Belivuk - Miljakovic clan will remain unsolved," Minister Vulin promised.

After the arrest of two crime bosses in February, Vulin said Serbian authorities would never allow the formation of a "new Zemun clan," referring to the most notorious criminal group within the Serbian Mafia. "We will not allow organized crime groups that consider themselves stronger than the state to kill, deal drugs, blackmail and extort," Vulin said at the time.