I remember they were also suspected in the killing of British TV presenter Jill Dando in 1999, Barry George was jailed for her murder but then was acquitted in 2008 so her murder remains unsolved.
Yugoslavian hitman in Scottish jail accuses fellow countryman of murdering Swedish PM Olof Palme in Balkan plot
After a quarter of a century without a credible culprit, new evidence has emerged that may help to solve the mystery of who murdered Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.
According to a German investigation, the killer was in the pay of the Yugoslav secret service, and the assassination was part of a Balkan plot that stretches all the way to Kirkcaldy in Scotland.
The Germans believe that Vinko Sindicic, a former member of a Yugoslav hit squad, has provided a crucial tip.
Who shot the prime minister? Swedish PM Olaf Palme was killed in 1986 by a lone gunman in Stockholm. New evidence could solve the mystery
Mr Sindicic was sentenced to 15 years in prison by Dunfermline High Court in 1988 for attempting to kill an influential Croatian nationalist leader based in Kirkaldy, Scotland.
According to German weekly news magazine Focus, Mr Sindicic, 67, now claims that the Yugoslav secret service killed Mr Palme and planned to pin the killing on right-wing Croatian separatists.
Mr Sindicic claims that it was Yugoslav agents who trailed Mr Palme and his wife, Lisbet, as they walked home in the centre of Stockholm after watching a late night film on February 28, 1986.
The couple had given their bodyguards the night off. As they strolled through the city, a man approached them from behind and shot them using a Smith & Wesson handgun.
Mr Palme was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead shortly afterwards. His wife survived.
Mr Sindicic has told the German authorities that the killer was a man called Ivo D. Now aged 65, he supposedly lives in Zagreb as a pensioner. The gun was allegedly smuggled to Sweden by boat from the U.S.
New evidence: Former Yugoslav hitman Vinko Sindicic arrives by plane at Zagreb airport in 1998. He was jailed for an attempted political assassination and now claims he knows the killer of Mr Palme
A detailed dossier, put together by the German secret service and drawing on information supplied by London and Edinburgh, was sent to the special Palme commission in Stockholm at the time, but Josef Hufelschulte, who conducted the investigation for Focus, says by the time police in Stolkholm responded to the dossier, Ivo D had moved to Zagreb.
'The criminal investigation police in Stockholm did not respond to the dossier,' said Hufelschulte.
'It took eight months for them to ask for information via an Interpol request sent to the Bavarian police. By that time, Ivo D had moved from Hamburg to Zagreb.'
Although Chief Superintendent Stig Edquist, the head of the Palme commission, has seen the dossier, he said last year it would be 'very very difficult ever to solve this murder'.
Conspiracy theories: The murder of the Swedish PM was blamed initially on Christer Pettersson (left) who was later acquitted, and Kurdish rebel group leader Abdullah Ocalan (right)
The assassination spawned dozens of conspiracy theories.
Originally the killing was blamed on a Swedish extremist, but the suspect was quickly cleared. He later emigrated to the US and was himself murdered.
Kurdish exiles were also blamed, but nothing conclusive was found.
Mr Palme, a Social Democrat, was a fierce opponent of the South African apartheid regime and at least one trail led towards Johannesburg.
The motive was apparently to stop secret Swedish government payments to the banned African National Congress.
Others claimed that the Prime Minister had been targeted by men acting on behalf of an arms industry cartel.
The Baader-Meinhof group in German also briefly claimed responsibility. Christer Pettersson, a brain-damaged Swedish petty criminal, was convicted for the killing but the sentence was quashed by the appeals court.
The Yugoslav connection appears to be the most plausible, says Focus magazine.
Josip Broz Tito, the former Yugoslav dictator, had ordered his secret police to assassinate dissidents across the world, whatever the cost. Mr Tito died in 1980 but the policy continued.
President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia ordered assassinations before his death in 1980
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