Type | Government owned |
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Industry | Defense |
Founded | 1949 |
Headquarters | Belgrade, Serbia |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jugoslаv Petković (General director) |
Products |
Small arms Combat vehicles Munitions |
Services | Engineering, consultancy, training |
Revenue |
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Employees | 492[1] |
Website | www.yugoimport.com |
Yugoimport – SDPR (Serbian language: Jugoimport – SDPR / Југоимпорт – СДПР) is the state-owned intermediary agency for the import and export of defence-related equipment in Serbia. The company was founded in 1949 in what was then Yugoslavia, for the needs of the Yugoslav defence industry.[2] Today the agency represents the Government and military industrial complex of Serbia in the sphere of importation and exportation cooperation of defence equipment and related services. Company works together with Serbian Army, VTI - Military Technical Institute Belgrade an many private companies in Serbia and around the world in developing new weapons and systems. The company also provides weapons design, consulting, construction and engineering services.[3] SDPR opened new "Complex Battle System" factory in Velika Plana, Serbia for producing combat vehicles.[4]
Arms trafficking[]
Yugoimport has been implicated in smuggling weapons to customers that were under embargo, such as Syria and the Ghaddafi regime in Libya.[5][6] Yugoimport also sold arms to Iraq and built several bunkers for the Saddam Hussein regime.[7][8] The Boka Star was seized whilst shipping arms to Iraq, including fuel for Scud missiles.
Products[]

BOV M11 APC
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Основни подаци из годишњег финансијског извештаја за обвезника ревизије за 2012. годину". Agencija za privredne registre Srbije. http://fi.apr.gov.rs/prijemfi/cir/podaci.asp?strSearch=07051751&kod=9bdcdfa3bd524672f76bb00b4ca2380dca61bcfe&godina=2012. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ↑ Yugoimport company background
- ↑ "Company Overview of Yugoimport-SDPR J.P.". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=49922989.
- ↑ "Srbija ima fabriku složenih borbenih sistema" (in Serbian). Al Jazeera Balkans. 29 December 2012. http://balkans.aljazeera.net/video/srbija-ima-fabriku-slozenih-borbenih-sistema. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ↑ Chivers (8 March 2011). "Qaddafi’s Arms Bazaar, Slowly Exposed".
- ↑ "Identification and Disruption of Clandestine Arms Transfers". UNDP. 31 August 2007. http://www.undp.hr/upload/file/200/100186/FILENAME/Guns__Planes___Ships_-_Identification_and_Disruption_of_Clandestine_Arms_Transfers.pdf. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ↑ "Iraq's Bunker Busters". Time Magazine. 26 May 2003. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1004921,00.html. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ↑ "Yugoslavia 'sold arms to Iraq'". 23 October 2002. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/23/yugoslavia.iraq/. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
External links[]
The original article can be found at Yugoimport SDPR and the edit history here.