Only people who could bust the sanctions could deliver the goods needed under sanctions and this fed the the mob. Without the mob, they would have starved.
That being said, the western stooge and Serbia's traitor, Zoran Djindjich, was knee-dep with all sorts of unsavoriy characters -- starting from Milsohevich ex-ally, Djukanovich; roasting an ox with karadzhich in Pale, and even Miloshevich himself.
Djindjich's a$$ was saved by none other than Miloshevich's mobster-friend "Legiya," now a fugative, who not only made sure the October 2000 "revolution" succeeded, but who also had the cojones to arrest Miloshevich by April 2001, and thus provide Djindjich with millions of dollars from the Empire.
Supposedly, Carla del Ponte's "shopping" list of new indictees included none other than the man who indebted Djindjich helped put him in power. Serbia had aprime minister (unelected oficial)who begged that the NATO bombing of his country continue for as long as necessary.
Djindjich's own mob connections surfaced when certain Mr. Gavrilovich was gunned down in Belgrade in August 2001, and Koshtunitsa's coalition party withdrew from Serbia's government headed by Djindjich, over the information it received from Gavrilovich. Needless to say, Gavrilovich's murder was never solved.
One should also not forget that while the mob may have put Djindjich in power, it was the Empire that kept him there. Even Djindjich's deputy prime minister was caught handing state secrets to the Empire's CIA agent in Belgrade masquarading as a "diplomat."
All in all, Djindjich was too indebted to the mob to be able to fulfill the Empire's wishes of sending them to the Hague as well. And with already annoucned reshuffling of the military, it is no wonder he confided in his friend, by her own account, Carla del Ponte, that "they" would kill him. She didn't elaborate, but one is led to believe that he was saying "if I have to turn them in..."
Now the mobs are settling the scores -- the DOS vs. the Zemun gang (but although the Surchin gang was much more intimately involved with Djindjich, little mention of it comes out of Serbia). The Democrats have installed a disctatorship, but since it's a pro-Western dictatorship the sin is tolerable.
The collaborationist scum is gone. His followers are scared, and are setting up a police state. The country is run by Djindjich's right hand man, and his deputy is a 29-year-old (!) ex-student leader (CIA-sponsored Otpor maybe?), Chedomir Yovanovich, whose glassy eyes and unfocused look give rise to speculations that he might be on drugs.
Incidentally, on his way to the Hague, Voislav Sheshel was interviewed by the Verchernye novosti (Evening News) reporter who flew to Amsterdam with Sheshel on Feb. 24, 2003. In that interview, repsonding to a question "What about Djindjich?" Sheshel said "He will be toopled very soon, and possibly lose his head as well." Something was known, something was going on in the underworld in Belgrade, which makes Djindjich's assassination even more suspicious: he was shot from a second floor window, with a blanket over the window sill. Considering that an attempt on Djindjich's life was made a week and a half earlier, one would imagine that his bodyguards would have scanned the neighborhood before he came out of his car and allowed to linger in front of the building (he was going inot the building and was shot in the stomach -- which means he was facing the gunman when he was shot). Many unanswred questions exist and the the official version is somewhat incredible.