Accused drug lords Darko and Duško Šarić likely owned the popular night club Vanilla’   in the central building of the Socialist Party of Serbia in  the center of Belgrade.

By Stevan Dojčinović and Bojana Jovanović

A ruling party rented a nightclub in its headquarters to associates of drug lords Darko and Duško Šarić. The party official who signed the lease contract in 2005  told reporters he didn’t know the club may have been ultimately controlled by the brothers.  Vanilla, a popular nightclub in the center of Belgrade, was for years the meeting point for Serbian celebrities, businessmen, athletes and the underworld.

Darko Šarić is wanted on an international warrant in connection with the seizure of two tons of cocaine from a yacht off the Uruguayan coast.   He has since disappeared. Duško Šarić was convicted in Montenegro in 2012 for money laundering and sentenced to eight years in prison.

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