CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
FM HONG KONG
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 946
OF 10070OZ JUNE 93
HKA 122/1
E
21 Ju. 1993
INFO PRIORITY WASHINGTON, PEKING, BELGRADE, MOSCOW
145612 MDHIAN 4273
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UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS ON SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: RAID ON HONG KONG COMPANY.
SUMMARY.
1.
INVESTIGATIONS UNDERWAY ON A LOCAL YUGOSLAV OWNED COMPANY SUSPECTED TO HAVE VIOLATED UN SCR 820. A LARGE QUANTITY OF DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN SEIZED AND TWO FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA (FRY) NATIONS WERE TEMPORARILY DETAINED. ONE OF THE FRY NATIONALS IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS THE SON OF THE FRY REPRESENTATIVE TO CHINA. THE PARTICULARS OF THE COMPANY AND ITS OVERSEAS AFFILIATES ARE PROVIDED IN MIFT.
DETAIL.
2. AT 0900 HOURS ON 9 JUNE A JOINT POLICE/CUSTOMS TEAM ACTING UPON INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION RAIDED THE OFFICE PREMISES OF TOP SUCCESS MANAGEMENT LIMITED AND THE RESIDENCE OF ITS PRINCIPAL, GORAN KARIC, A FRY NATIONAL. IN THE COURSE OF THE OPERATION A FURTHER FRY NATIONAL, NEHAD DINIC, AS ASSISTANT MANAGER OF TOP SUCCESS'S PEKING BRANCH, WAS FOUND ON THE PREMISES. DINIC HAS CLAIMED TO BE THE SON OF THE FRY'S SENIOR DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVE IN PEKING. BOTH INDIVIDUALS WERE DETAINED DURING THE OPERATION BUT DINIC HAS HAD TO BE RELEASED DUE TO A LACK OF EVIDENCE LINKING HIM TO THE LOCAL COMPANY. KARIC HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND PLACED ON BAIL. THE OPERATION YIELDED A LARGE QUANTITY OF DOCUMENTS, MOSTLY IN SERBO CROAT, WHICH HAVE BEEN SEIZED TOGETHER WITH AN OFFICE COMPUTER.
3.
WE ARE HOPING DOCUMENTS ONCE TRANSLATED WILL PROVIDE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT A PROSECUTION OF THE COMPANY AND GORAN KARIC.
KARIC HAS BEEN MOST CO-OPERATIVE AND HAS INFORMED THE POLICE THAT TOP SUCCESS IS A SUBSIDIARY OF A LARGE PRIVATELY OWNED YUGOSLAV CONCERN, BRACA KARIC. THE KARIC FAMILY NUMBERING OVER 30
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