Kristijan Golubovic
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Aleksandar "Kristijan" Golubović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар-Кристијан Голубовић) (born 30 November 1969 in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, West Germany
West Germany
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) is a Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n gangster
Mafia
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 and Mixed martial artist.

After spending four and a half years in prison in Požarevac
Požarevac
Požarevac is a city and municipality in eastern Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Braničevo District of Serbia...

, he was released on January 9, 2009. As of January 2010, he is in police custody again after getting arrested on a charge that he was involved in narcotics trade.

Kristijan Golubović was featured in a 1996 documentary about Serbia's underworld called Vidimo se u čitulji
Vidimo se u citulji
See You in the Obituary is a 1995 made-for-TV 35-minute documentary directed by Janko Baljak based on the book The Crime That Changed Serbia by Aleksandar Knežević and Vojislav Tufegdžić...

. He is one of only a few individuals, out of dozens featured in the film, still alive today.

Biography

Born to Srboljub "Kitcha" and Milanka "Sr.Mima-Eng.Mema" Golubović in a family of gastarbeiter
Gastarbeiter
Gastarbeiter is German for "guest worker." It refers to migrant workers who had moved to West Germany mainly in the 1960s and 70s, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker programme...

s living in Munich, Kristijan did not meet his father until grade school since he was serving a long-term prison sentence for taking part in a robbery with deadly outcome. His mother was a JAT stewardess. His father was imprisoned in Goli Otok
Goli otok
Goli otok is an island off the northern Adriatic coast, located between Rab's northeastern shore and the mainland, in what is today Croatia's Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. The island is barren and uninhabited...

.

His godfather was Ljuba Zemunac, a notable mafia boss.

He became friends with Legija in 1982 when they together worked as bouncers at night clubs.

In the early mid 80s he befriended Joca Amsterdam.
In 1985 he befriended a Greek businessman whom he met through his godfather Ljuba Zemunac in Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

.

He returned to Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

 with his mother and sister in 1987; they moved first to Zvezdara
Zvezdara
Zvezdara is a hill, forest, urban neighborhood and one of 17 municipalities which constitute City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.- Location :...

 and then "Brace Jerkovic 50" in Voždovac
Voždovac
Voždovac is an urban neighborhood and one of 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.- Location :...

. Already no stranger to various juvenile delinquent activity, Golubović continued along the same path with street fighting
Street fighting
Street fighting is a colloquial term used to denote unsanctioned, illegal in some countries, hand-to-hand fighting in public places, between individuals or groups of people....

, often involving knives and guns. He also started painting. In December 1987, Kristijan beat up a patron in a kafana
Kafana
Kafana , kafeana , kavana are terms used in the former Yugoslav countries for a distinct type of local bistro which primarily serves alcoholic beverages and coffee , and which sometimes also has a live band.The concept of a social gathering place for men to drink...

 in Boleč
Bolec
Boleč is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Grocka.- Location :...

. In May 1989, He started a fist fight against Slavko Mijović aka Mija Pijuk (Mija The Pickax), the godfather of Željko Ražnatović Arkan, and his bodyguard Safet Buljuku aka "Džimi.Jimme" began firing shots at Mija Pijuk that hit him in the legs in front of Disco Luv in Voždovac
Voždovac
Voždovac is an urban neighborhood and one of 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.- Location :...

, a Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 suburb. Later that year, in October 1989, he initiated a brawl in Branko Krsmanović club leading to several shots being fired as well. He soon graduated to organized crime and gang-related activity.

In the early morning hours of Sunday, February 25, 1990, he was one of the perpetrators of an infamous act of violence in Belgrade's Mažestik Hotel. Along with his best friend at the time Dragan "Gagi" Nikolić, heavily armed Kristijan burst into the hotel's disco bar looking for a rival gangster. Since they didn't find him, 24-year-old Gagi and 20-year-old Kristijan shot up and ransacked the place, pretty much destroying it in the process before fleeing the scene. Since the hotel's disco bar was a favourite mobster hangout, the incident gained them quite a bit of notoriety in the underworld considering that many prominent and powerful mob figures were there at the time of the shooting.

To escape prosecution in Serbia, Kristijan went back to Germany, but soon found himself serving a three-year sentence in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

. In 1993, German authorities extradited him back to Serbia where he was wanted for a variety of criminal acts from the 1988–1990 period.

He was friends with Milorad Ulemek
Milorad Ulemek
Milorad "Legija" Ulemek , also known as Milorad Luković is a former commander of the Serbian secret police special unit, the Red Berets , convicted of the assassinations of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic and organiser of the attempted murder of the...

 Aka Legija and has said that though he maintained relations with Arkan through Legija, he was not "one of Arkan's". When he escaped from the Belgrade court, Legija sent him to Erdut
Erdut
Erdut is a village and a municipality in eastern Croatia. It is located in the Osijek-Baranja County, eastern Slavonia, 37 km east of Osijek. The elevation of the village of Erdut is 158 m...

 to the headquarters of the Serbian Volunteer Guard (Arkanovi Tigrovi), there he was asked to fight for Arkan, but Kristijan has said that he declined. Arkan asked Kristijan to assassinate Serbian politician Seselj, but he refused. Kristijan had the biggest golden necklace in Belgrade at 790 grams, Arkan then minted a necklace of 1 kilo and Kristijan ended up having a 2,860 grams of necklace with the inscription of "KRISTIJAN" with a Orthodox cross of 1200 grams. He has said that the two were rivals.

He married and had a son while in Belgrade. He left Serbia for Greece to avoid prison. There he became the leader of a Yugoslav group that worked in Athens; Safet Buljuku and Milorad Hauk were two of his companions.

Kristijan Golubović was featured in a 1996 documentary about Serbia's underworld called Vidimo se u čitulji
Vidimo se u citulji
See You in the Obituary is a 1995 made-for-TV 35-minute documentary directed by Janko Baljak based on the book The Crime That Changed Serbia by Aleksandar Knežević and Vojislav Tufegdžić...

that was filmed 1994–1996. He is one of only a few individuals, out of dozens featured in the film, still alive today. This has given him

In 2002 he escaped from Malandrino, a Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 prison where he was sentenced to 14 and a half years for stealing two Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz
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 cars, and an armed robbery. During his time in prison, he maintained a relationship with Željko Ražnatović
Željko Ražnatovic
Željko Ražnatović , widely known as Arkan was a Serbian career criminal and later a paramilitary leader who was notable for organizing and leading a paramilitary force in the Yugoslav Wars...

's daughter Anđela Ražnatović, he said he wanted to marry her but the relation was short. He was flown with Jat airlines to Serbia in April 2003 because of charges from 1993.
He was arrested in Operation Sablja
Operation Sablja
The Operation Sablja was launched on March 12, 2003, following the assassination of Zoran Đinđić, the Prime Minister of Serbia. The assassination destabilized the government. Immediately after the assassination, a state of emergency was declared by interim president Nataša Mićić...

, the crackdown on organized crime in Serbia following the Prime Minister
Prime minister
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 Zoran Đinđić's assassination by his friend Legija. He was arrested for being the leader of a criminal group that extorted 14,000 € from a businessman from Sremska Mitrovica
Sremska Mitrovica
Sremska Mitrovica is a city and municipality located in the Vojvodina province of Serbia, on the left bank of the Sava river. As of 2002 the town had a total population of 39,041, while Sremska Mitrovica municipality had a population of 85,605...

; the sentence was initially 6 years, but the case ended with 1 and a half year.

On the night of March 17, 2004, Kristijan and famous Serbian turbo-folk
Turbo-folk
Turbo-folk is a popular musical sub-genre that originated in Serbia, the Balkans. Having mainstream popularity in Serbia, although closely associated with Serbian performers, its sound is as popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro...

 singer Ceca Ražnatović (widow of murdered Željko Ražnatović Arkan) gathered protesters in front of the government building in Belgrade to rally against the situation in Kosovo
2004 unrest in Kosovo
Violent unrest in Kosovo, which at the time was under United Nations administration, broke out on 17 March 2004. Kosovo Albanians, numbering over 50,000, took part in widescale attacks on the Serbian people, compared by the then Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica to ethnic cleansing but not...

 where more than 36 Serbian Orthodox churches
Serbian Orthodox Church
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 had been burned the same day in an outbreak of organized ethnic Albanian
Albanians
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 violence against the Serb
Serbs
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 civilians in the province.

He was sentenced on December 12, 2005 in the Special court of Belgrade on illegal arms and racketeering charges. He had from April to June 2005 tried to extort 15,000 € from an ex-police from Sremska Mitrovica and the extortion of 3,000 € and stealing of gold jewelry from married couple and jewellers from Lazarevac
Lazarevac
Lazarevac is a town and municipality located in Serbia at 44.22° North, 20.15° East. Its name stems from name of medieval Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic. In 2002 the town has total population of 23,551. Lazarevac is one of Belgrade's 17 municipalities....

. He was first sentenced to 6 years but the court settled at 4.5 years in Požarevac
Požarevac
Požarevac is a city and municipality in eastern Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Braničevo District of Serbia...

. He started dating Suzana Milojković in the same month, whom he married on September 29, 2006 in prison. His wife came in Lincoln limousines followed by several Jeeps when she visited. In January 2008, while still being imprisoned, his wife launched his own website, www.kristijangolubovic.net, which includes his biography, photos, and even videos from the prison, taken by camera phone
Camera phone
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.

On January 9, 2009, he was released from the Požarevac
Požarevac
Požarevac is a city and municipality in eastern Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Braničevo District of Serbia...

 prison where he had spent 4.5 years.
He made a rap song together with Elitni odredi
Elitni odredi
Elitni Odredi is a Serbian hip-hop and R'n'B group from Belgrade formed in 2005. The group consists of two members and long time friends, Relja Popović known as Drima and Vladimir Matović known as Wonta.-Rise to success:The group was formed in 2005 with first singles released including "Ako Ste Za...

 called "Jack i Chivas" (Jack Daniels
Jack Daniel's
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 and Chivas Regal
Chivas Regal
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). He was denied entry to Croatia
Croatia
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 in 2009 when he was going to fight in the "Millenium Fighting Challenge" MMA event held in Split
Split (city)
Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...

, the controversial mayor Zeljko Kerum
Željko Kerum
Željko Kerum is a Croatian entrepreneur and politician. He ran for mayor of Split, Croatia in May 2009 and won 58.4% of the vote. He is also the owner of the Croatian supermarket chain Kerum....

 denied his entrance and police were ready to stop Kristijan if he would enter Croatia. Kerum said "He has a history of Crime and suspicious relations with the criminal world is not welcomed to Split
Split (city)
Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...

 or Croatia
Croatia
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, nor be a Sport example".

On January 16, 2010, Kristijan, his mother and five other members of his criminal group were arrested in Belgrade on charges of narcotics trade in Novi Pazar and Belgrade starting in August 2009. He and his two companions were intercepted at an drug exchange of 25 grams of heroin when they exited Saint Mark's Church. He had the previous week been stopped by police who found 10 grams of heroin in his Toyota Grand Cruiser. His friend in the car claimed the heroin was his and Kristijan was in arrest for 4 hours before being set free, his friend is awaiting trial. The police then searched his home in Višnjica
Višnjica
Višnjica is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.- Location :...

 and found a gun and ammunition without serials, in his mother house a Beretta was found. He is to be sentenced for narcotics trade, illegal arms and explosive possession. They are all currently (April) in the central prison of Belgrade. He tried suicide by hanging
Hanging
Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...

 in his cell the days following the arrest, the motive of the suicide attempt was that he felt devastated that he had caused the arrest of his mother who had nothing to do with this. She is quoted as having said "I should have aborted you". He shares cells with "Elex gang"-leader Darko Elez and Zemun clan hitman Nikola Bajić. His wife was briefly held in March for the find of a land mine in her car.In December 2010 he was sentenced to seven years.

MMA record

|-
|Win
|2-0
|  Stanislav Drakov
| DQ
| WKN Serbia - Kings of the Ring
| December 13, 2009
| 2
|
| Niš
Niš
Niš is the largest city of southern Serbia and third-largest city in Serbia . According to the data from 2011, the city of Niš has a population of 177,972 inhabitants, while the city municipality has a population of 257,867. The city covers an area of about 597 km2, including the urban area,...

, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...


| Drakov bit Golubovic's finger
|-
|Win
|1-0
|  Marian Rusu
| TKO
| Ultra FC - Stop the Crime
| October 31, 2009
| 1
| 0:24
| Subotica
Subotica
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, Serbia
Serbia
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| Leg injury

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