ZORAN Petrovic is a character in the Helicopter Heist, a Netflix drama based on a real-life crime that rocked Sweden.
He is based on Goran Bojavic, one of the men who organised the robbery of a cash depot using a helicopter.
Bojavic’s parents moved to Sweden from Montenegro, before they gave birth to their son.
When he grew up, Bojavic became involved in crime and was one of the main people behind the robbery of a cash depot in Sweden.
He contacted a man named Milan Sevo, a Swedish gangster living in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade.
Unbeknownst to Bojavic, Sevo was under surveillance by the Serbian authorities who alerted the Swedish authorities about the upcoming crime.
Bojavic dumped Sevo from the scheme and hired Alexander Eriksson to be his pilot.
He also recruited Safa Kadhum to help him in the scheme.
In the series, Kadhum is dramatised as the character Rami and Eriksson is dramatised as Axel.
On September 23, 2009, Bojavic flew with Eriksson, Kadhum and another criminal named Charbel Charro to a cash depot in southern Stockholm in a stolen helicopter.
They landed on the roof of the depot and broke through a glass window with sledgehammer.
The gang used bombs to open the vault’s security doors and fled back to their helicopter.
When the police tried to pursue the gang, they found that their helicopters had been grounded because the robbers had hidden bombs at the base.
The gang’s scheme quickly fell apart though, as Charro was arrested after being stopped by the traffic police in a routine check.
Kadhum was arrested after he fled to the Dominican Republic and Eriksson was arrested in the Canary Islands.
Bojavic was arrested too and received an 8-year prison sentence, but the stolen money was never recovered.
The Helicopter Heist is a Netflix series which dramatises Goran’s shocking heist.
The Swedish superstar Erik Svedberg-Zelman Axel and Mahmut Suvakci plays Kadhum.
The tense series is available to stream on Netflix now.
