Former basketball player Olivera Vasic Cirkovic is one of three Serbians who were arrested last week for planning an armed robbery, reports the Serbian daily Blic.
Cirkovic was arrested alongside 20-year-old Milan Kostic and another 36-year-old man whose identity has not been released.
The trio were arrested after police noticed two men wearing wigs lurking near a jewelry store. The men began to run and one was apprehended, but the other started shooting at the police with his gun. Kostic was hit in the leg three times and taken to the hospital.
After investigating Kostic's contacts, the Greek police found that he was connected to Cirkovic.
After searching her apartment, police found masks, wigs, weapons, and fake identity documents and linked Cirkovic, who already has a criminal record in Greece, to the gang. She was arrested in Crete in 2006 for being an accomplice in a robbery.
Interpol belives that the Pink Panthers consists of around 300 Serbian and Montenegrin nationals operating since 1993. The group has been linked to jewel thefts all over the world worth an estimated US$500 million.
