{"id":465870,"date":"2025-10-23T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465870"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:30:46","slug":"euroleague-referee-uros-nikolic-arrested-in-serbia-e250000-found-at-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-referee-uros-nikolic-arrested-in-serbia-e250000-found-at-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague Referee Uros Nikolic Arrested in Serbia: \u20ac250,000 Found at His Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1045\" data-end=\"1265\">Shocking news from <strong data-start=\"1064\" data-end=\"1074\">Serbia<\/strong>, where <strong data-start=\"1082\" data-end=\"1098\">Uros Nikolic<\/strong>, a 39-year-old referee in the <strong data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1143\">EuroLeague<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1145\" data-end=\"1159\">ABA League<\/strong>, and Serbian competitions, has been <strong data-start=\"1196\" data-end=\"1208\">arrested<\/strong> after police discovered <strong data-start=\"1233\" data-end=\"1245\">\u20ac250,000<\/strong> in his apartment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1267\" data-end=\"1516\">According to state broadcaster <strong data-start=\"1298\" data-end=\"1305\">RTS<\/strong>, the arrest is tied to an <strong data-start=\"1332\" data-end=\"1366\">international police operation<\/strong> investigating links to an organized criminal group. Ten people were detained in total, facing charges including <strong data-start=\"1479\" data-end=\"1489\">murder<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1494\" data-end=\"1513\">public disorder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1775\">Nikolic, an <strong data-start=\"1530\" data-end=\"1563\">EuroLeague referee since 2019<\/strong>, officiated at the <strong data-start=\"1583\" data-end=\"1615\">Final Fours in 2021 and 2024<\/strong> and recently worked the <strong data-start=\"1640\" data-end=\"1666\">Real Madrid\u2013Olympiacos<\/strong> clash on October 2. He will now appear before Serbia\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1722\" data-end=\"1772\">Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office for Organized Crime<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1777\" data-end=\"1841\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"1777\" data-end=\"1800\">Source: Eurohoops.net<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uros Nikolic, a 39-year-old referee in the EuroLeague, ABA League, and Serbian competitions, has been arrested<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":465869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-465870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/I1Kk9kpTURBXy9lNzhkN2NhZThhYTQwNjgyZmFhNjAwMTA0Y2RhNzgwZC5qcGeRkwXNBLDNAqPeAAGhMAU.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465870"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465870"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465870"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}