Two fugitive chiefs of criminal gangs paid more than $300,000 to football fans whose rioting forced the cancellation of Serbia's Euro 2012 qualifying match against Italy earlier this week, a daily newspaper says.
The pro-government Politika daily says the money was paid to more than 60 hooligans to act up in the match in Genoa, which was called off.
Two chiefs of separate criminal gangs are to blame, according to the report - a cocaine dealer suspected also of money laundering behind one gang and another believed to head a criminal organisation linked to a number of murders, robberies and violence.
Police in Italy made 17 arrests and 16 people were hospitalised after the clashes in Genoa.
Serbian police have detained 35 football fans on their way back from Genoa in northern Italy.
