{"id":465910,"date":"2025-10-23T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465910"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:10:18","slug":"euroleague-suspends-referee-uros-nikolic-following-arrest-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-suspends-referee-uros-nikolic-following-arrest-in-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague Suspends Referee Uros Nikolic Following Arrest in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1051\" data-end=\"1239\">The <strong data-start=\"1055\" data-end=\"1069\">EuroLeague<\/strong> has officially <strong data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1127\">suspended Serbian referee Uros Nikolic<\/strong> after his arrest in connection with an alleged <strong data-start=\"1175\" data-end=\"1203\">organized criminal group<\/strong>, as reported by <em data-start=\"1220\" data-end=\"1225\">RTS<\/em> and <em data-start=\"1230\" data-end=\"1236\">Blic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1241\" data-end=\"1506\">In a statement, EuroLeague confirmed that Nikolic will remain suspended <strong data-start=\"1313\" data-end=\"1408\">until both the local authorities\u2019 investigation and Euroleague Basketball\u2019s internal review<\/strong> are completed. The <strong data-start=\"1428\" data-end=\"1467\">Serbian Basketball Federation (KSS)<\/strong> has also suspended him indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1508\" data-end=\"1779\">Police reportedly found <strong data-start=\"1532\" data-end=\"1544\">\u20ac250,000<\/strong> in his apartment during a raid. The 40-year-old official, who worked the <strong data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1647\">2021 and 2024 Final Fours<\/strong>, had officiated <strong data-start=\"1664\" data-end=\"1701\">four EuroLeague games this season<\/strong>, including <em data-start=\"1713\" data-end=\"1737\">Real Madrid\u2013Olympiacos<\/em> and <em data-start=\"1742\" data-end=\"1776\">Hapoel Tel Aviv\u2013Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1781\" data-end=\"1845\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EuroLeague has officially suspended Serbian referee Uros Nikolic after his arrest in connection with an alleged organized criminal group<\/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":[191,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-465910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","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\/465910","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=465910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465910\/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=465910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465910"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465910"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465910"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}