AN AUSTRALIAN outlaw motorcycle gang leader who left Australia following an execution-style murder is now on his way back to face justice in Australia after being extradited from Serbia, where he has been in custody for almost a year. 
Former Bandido Bogdan Cuic was arrested in Serbia's second largest city of Novi Sad on   June 5 last year after more than three years on the run following the death of 22-year-old Jei "Jack" Lee in a Brisbane shopping centre during a suspected botched drug deal.
The 28-year-old dual citizen was yesterday escorted to the Nikola Tesla airport in Surcin, on the outskirts of capital Belgrade, by a heavily armed squad of paramilitary police officers wearing balaclavas before being handed over to Queensland detectives for the commercial flight home.
The event took place earlier than expected with authorities wanting to keep it as low key as possible despite the huge security convoy.
Extraditions can be political in Serbia which has no formal treaty with Australia and operate on a "crime co-operation" agreement. Some in the local nationalist movement are often infuriated when those deemed nationalists can be thrown out of the country or handed over to foreign authorities even on extradition for serious crimes.
As previously reported, Cuic left Australia just hours after Lee was shot dead in the car park of Warrigal Shopping Centre at Eight Mile Plains in 2012.
As revealed exclusively in a series of reports by News Corp Australia he had been living the high life in Eastern Europe including around the casinos of Montenegro, watched by local undercover police. They could not move on him due to a bureaucratic bungle in Queensland, with the state authorities unable to get the paperwork together to make the arrest.
He partied for eight months spending up to â‚¬ 3000 ($A4650) a night on himself, four friends from Australian Bandidos chapters and a raft of prostitutes and friends before local detectives and undercover police gave up on that paperwork ever arriving so they could co-ordinate his arrest and that of those with him.
He was arrested about a week after the revelations of his new life and the bungle, by The Courier-Mail .
Cuic (pictured) allegedly lived in a mansion owned by his family near the village of Rakovac for a time as well as various casinos and hotels in the region.Locals in the village had no idea he was wanted for a murder in Australia and only noted he was coming and going in a fleet of luxury Mercedes and BMWs. The Bandidos were one of a series of motorcycle gangs outlawed in Queensland under the controversial anti-bikie laws brought in by the former LNP government.