A Blueprint of the EuroChicago US Trucking Ecosystem
A "light" investigative account of Compass Holding, AAA Freight, Super Ego, and Gold Coast Logistics, and the documented architecture, business, and contributions that connect them
Somewhere on an interstate, a truck is rolling under an operating authority that did not exist five years ago, insured by a company that insures its owners, fueled by a fuel card issued by the same family that owns the trailer, carrying a load the driver did not book, paid at a rate the driver will not see. When that truck finishes its run, the driver will park in a yard in a Chicago suburb, hand the keys to a dispatcher whose boss is in Belgrade, and return home to a paycheck that has been factored through a company co-founded by his dispatcher’s cousin.
That’s literally not a metaphor; all of it is in the federal record.
This is the story of an American trucking ecosystem that grew up over twenty-seven years between metropolitan Chicago, Naples, Miami, Cincinnati, Buckeye, Belgrade, and Kragujevac. It is a story about corporate succession at a single truck yard in Justice, Illinois, about captive insurance and captive factoring, about the relationship between a revoked federal motor carrier and the rental company that now owns its equipment, about federal civil racketeering complaints that got dismissed on procedure without ever being tested on the merits, about an ambassador nominee who died two months after his nomination was withdrawn, and about a homicide investigation in Shelby County, Ohio whose discovery file contains the clearest single piece of documentary evidence I have ever seen in fifteen years of working commercial motor carrier cases.
It is also a story about what the federal government is beginning to do about it.
At this point, most know that last week, I was on CBS News and 60 Minutes, and FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs stated on camera that Super Ego Holding is the subject of an ongoing federal investigation.
I am going to lay out what we know, how we know it, and where the pieces fit. Some of this is technical. Some of this is personal. I will try to keep the distinction clean.
The yard at 9001 West 79th Place
Every investigative file worth reading has one sentence that converts pattern into proof. In this file, the sentence is that two otherwise unrelated trucking networks operated from the same physical truck yard in Justice, Illinois, four years apart, with little other public connection between them beyond the address itself.
Illinois Secretary of State records show that Radovan Roy Dobrasinovic, who people know I call “Roy D,” is a Montenegrin-born operator who arrived in the United States in 1997 and founded his first Compass entity in 1999, was the registered agent of Compass Freight System Inc. at 9001 West 79th Place, Justice, Illinois, from February 5, 1999 until July 10, 2009. Five additional Compass entities operated from the same address across that period, including Compass Truck Driving School Inc., which remained active through April 2015, and Compass Tractor Repair Inc., which remained active through March 2011. 9001 West 79th Place was, for a decade, the physical center of the Dobrasinovic operation. It was the truck yard, the driver school, the shop, and the corporate seat.
On February 27, 2013, approximately four years after Compass Freight System went inactive, Antonije Keljevic registered the Quebec branch of AAA Freight Inc. with the Registraire des Entreprises du Quebec. The Quebec filing declares the Illinois principal business address of AAA Freight Inc. as 9001 Place W 79th, Justice, Illinois 60458. That is the same 9001 West 79th Place address that had served Compass.
Nothing in the public record indicates whether the transition was a lease, a sale, a gift, or some other less formal arrangement. What we know is that AAA Freight did not have any prior publicly known relationship with Justice, Illinois, and in particular with that specific address, before 2013. We know that Keljevic was not a visible participant in the Dobrasinovic Compass operation, as documented in the public record. We know that the address itself had been one of the named Dobrasinovic operational locations for the decade immediately preceding the Keljevic filing. And we know that at the same time, Keljevic was opening his Quebec branch using 9001 West 79th Place as his Illinois principal, while Compass Truck Driving School Inc., which was still active at the same address.
This is the operational equivalent of walking into a restaurant with the same parking lot, kitchen, phone, and staff as last year, and calling it by a different name, or saying none of these pieces are part of the same puzzle or connected.
I am not going to tell you what to make of that. I am going to tell you that, for purposes of any investigative file, the address is the evidentiary anchor for everything that follows.
The Clarendon Hills building
If 9001 West 79th Place is the succession anchor between two branded networks, 115 West 55th Street in Clarendon Hills is the succession anchor inside one network.
115 West 55th Street is a commercial office building, a short drive from the original Compass truck yard. It is the current registered office of Compass Specialty Insurance Risk Retention Group, Compass Insurance Group, Compass Arena LLC, Compass Logistics LLC, SmartBoard LLC, Compass Financial Holding Group LLC, Compass Logistics Holding LLC, and Compass Payment Services LLC. Most of those entities share Suite 201.
What makes the building an operational story rather than a corporate address story is what has been happening in the upper-floor suites since 2017. Four separate federal motor carrier authorities have been opened at four different suite numbers inside the building since that date. Compass Logistics LLC, DOT 3031887, officer Roy Dobrasinovic, Fourth Floor, opened July 26, 2017. LVA Expedite LLC at DOT 4151864, officer Andrija Sreckovic, Suite 410, opened November 1, 2023. NNK Express LLC at DOT 4248246, officer Nebojsa Kljajic, Suite 408, opened May 31, 2024. VS Express LLC at DOT 4380121, Officer Ranko Scekic, Suite 401, opened March 19, 2025. Major Line LLC at DOT 4424121, officer Milan Stojanovic, Suite 406, opened June 13, 2025.
Ranko Scekic, the principal of VS Express, did not appear out of nowhere. He first entered the Compass Specialty Risk Retention Group as a Compass-insured carrier at RS Freight System LLC, DOT 3930120, in 2022, with a one-truck fleet under a one-year Compass Specialty policy effective August 10, 2022, through August 10, 2023. Exactly one year after that policy ended, he registered VS Express LLC in Roy Dobrasinovic’s building, at a scale 82 times his previous fleet. The Compass Specialty policy was his entry point into the ecosystem. The reincarnation into a large-fleet carrier from inside the Compass building was the exit product.
The Compass Insurance Group brokerage website publicly advertises business formation services, including open or transfer motor carrier authority, tax identification number applications, international registration plan, state permits in multiple states, international fuel tax agreement registration, heavy vehicle use tax, unified carrier registration, and surety bond placement. These are the steps required to stand up a new federal motor carrier authority from scratch. In published interviews with Serbian Times in 2019 and 2020, Roy Dobrasinovic stated on the record that his company helps clients open their companies, in his words, free of charge.
This is the business model: insurance placement and carrier formation services on one side of the house, truck rental and equipment financing on the second side, captive factoring on the third side, and a Tennessee-domiciled captive insurance (Risk Retention Group) company on the fourth. A carrier that enters the ecosystem does so on all four sides at once. A carrier that needs to exit, because of crashes, because of violations, because of revocation, does not exit the ecosystem. It exists as one brand and reappears at another, from a different suite in the same building.
The recruitment model, in the plaintiff’s own words
The clearest single description of the recruitment model comes from a federal court pleading. On December 22, 2021, plaintiff AS Corp Inc., represented by attorney Ankur Shah of Shah Legal Representation, filed an amended False Claims Act complaint against Compass Specialty Insurance Risk Retention Group in the Northern District of Illinois, under docket number 1:21-cv-02363, assigned to Judge John F. Kness. The complaint was filed as a qui tam action, meaning it was brought by a private relator on behalf of the United States, with the goal of recovering treble damages for alleged false claims submitted to the federal government.
The facts pleaded in the complaint, which are sworn allegations of the plaintiff under Rule 11 and have never been adjudicated on the merits, describe the plaintiff's recruitment into the Compass ecosystem in concrete detail. The principal of AS Corp was at an establishment identified as Stefan Grill with a friend in the fall of 2016. Roy Dobrasinovic approached AS Corp’s principal, Stefan Grill. At or after that encounter, Dobrasinovic informed the principal that his company’s offerings included fuel cards, factoring, equipment finance, and, eventually, motor carrier insurance, all available on favorable terms. Dobrasinovic invited the principal to his offices and made a presentation including a motor carrier insurance price quote significantly less than the amounts AS Corp had been paying for its motor carrier insurance. Dobrasinovic tied the motor carrier insurance to his other Compass family of companies’ offerings at the meeting.
That is the pitch. A chance encounter at a restaurant, a discount insurance quote, a tie-in to the other services. It is the kind of story that thousands of small owner operators tell about how they got started with a particular carrier infrastructure.
The complaint pleads that the applications Compass required of AS Corp were designed, in the plaintiff’s own language, to “create a profile and understanding of the applicant’s sophistication, background, strengths, and/or weaknesses,” and to obtain “highly confidential and sensitive information about the applicant,” including the applicant’s number of trucks, size of business, and financials. The complaint pleads that Dobrasinovic’s companies, in the plaintiff’s own language, “seek out clientele of Eastern European background and ethnicity,” “seek out clientele who are unestablished but looking to enter into the motor carrier industry,” “seek out clientele who those companies perceive and believe are new, unfamiliar, unsophisticated, may have language barriers, or may have other vulnerabilities,” and “seek out clientele for the purpose of maximizing Radovan Roy Dobrasinovic’s and Radovan Roy Dobrasinovic’s companies financial benefit at the unlawful expense of clientele.”
The complaint pleads, again in the plaintiff’s sworn language, that Dobrasinovic and his companies operate in a manner which involves “many acts of dishonesty,” “many acts of economic extortion,” “embezzlement,” “conversion,” and “acquiring control over a clientele’s accounts receivable.”
The complaint identifies a specific date, October 20, 2016, on which Compass Specialty Insurance RRG sold shares to AS Corp Inc. in excess of fifty thousand shares, pursuant to a Subscription Agreement under which, per the pleading, Captive Planning Associates LLC of 1 South Dearborn Street, Suite 2154 in Chicago directly or indirectly participated in the issuance of shares. That is the mechanism by which the carrier was converted from an insured customer into an ownership participant in the insurance vehicle that issued its coverage. It is the conversion that the FCA complaint identifies as the core predicate.
The complaint pleads, directly and in the plaintiff’s own sworn language, that Compass Specialty Insurance RRG “submits false claims to the United States Federal Government Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.” The complaint further pleads that certain Citadel Risk entities work with Compass Specialty in a manner that misrepresents, deceives, and falsely claims that Compass Specialty and the Compass family of entities provide at least seven hundred fifty thousand dollars or more of primary insurance coverage to Compass Specialty shareholders pursuant to motor carrier insurance policies issued to Compass Specialty shareholders.
If the allegation is established, it constitutes an allegation of false filings with FMCSA regarding the minimum liability coverage required of interstate motor carriers under federal law.
The allegation has never been adjudicated. On April 6, 2022, Judge Kness granted the plaintiffs’ unopposed motion to voluntarily dismiss, noting that the United States had declined to intervene, that the plaintiffs had not filed any proof of service, and that the defendant had not answered or otherwise appeared. The dismissal was granted without prejudice under Rule 41(a)(2). The False Claims Act count remains refile-eligible. The allegations remain a public federal court record as the plaintiff's sworn allegations. I spoke with the Plaintiff, and from what we can tell, his lawyer didn’t show up for court and was allegedly bribed to kill this case. Not my words, but the words of the Plaintiff.
On the same day AS Corp first filed the qui tam action, May 4, 2021, Roy Dobrasinovic perfected a personal Illinois Uniform Commercial Code lien against himself, at filing 02723327905, with Dobrasinovic, Roy as debtor and Compass Funding Solutions LLC, his own factoring company, as secured party. A carrier principal filing a personal UCC lien against himself through his own factoring company on the same day that a federal False Claims Act suit is filed against his insurance operation is a form of asset protection against judgment creditors, including the federal government as the real party in interest in the qui tam action.
The 227-page complaint, and what it takes to win by not answering
Seven months before the False Claims Act filing, on October 20, 2020, the same plaintiffs filed a 227-page verified civil racketeering complaint in the same court, under docket number 1:20-cv-06233, against fifty-three corporate defendants and eleven individual defendants, including Radovan Roy Dobrasinovic, his brothers Radomir and Radojica Dobrasinovic, family accountant Jelena Dobrasinovic, Compass Holding Group LLC, Compass Funding Solutions LLC, MGR Freight System Inc., Compass Specialty Insurance Risk Retention Group Inc., and others. The complaint alleged a “Dobrasinovic Brother One Stop Center” comprising Compass Freight System Inc., RD Logistics Inc., MGR Freight System Inc., and RAM Transportation Inc., and a “Compass One Stop Center” comprising Compass Holding Group LLC, Compass Funding Solutions LLC, Compass Specialty Insurance RRG Inc., and additional Compass entities, operating in what the complaint described as, in its own sworn language, “coordination and cooperation to commit seriously criminal, fraudulent, and unlawful activities.”
The case was assigned to Judge Virginia M. Kendall. It was dismissed on December 7, 2021, with prejudice, for the plaintiffs’ failure to serve process on any of the defendants over a period of 14 months and across 3 separate complaints. The First Amended Complaint was dismissed for service failure on April 21, 2021. The Second Amended Complaint was filed on June 21, 2021, with a service deadline of September 22, 2021. On September 28, 2021, defendants moved to dismiss on the ground that “As of the date of this Motion, none of the Subject Defendants have been served with a copy of the summons and currently pending Complaint.” At the October 6, 2021, status conference, plaintiffs’ counsel admitted that he had failed to contact any of the defendants. The court’s dismissal order observed that “For the period of April 21, 2021, through October 6, 2021, Plaintiff made absolutely no attempt whatsoever to contact any of the 70 Defendants he had known and identified since initiating litigation on October 20, 2020.”
The court dismissed with prejudice under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b), finding “a clear record of delay or contumacious conduct.” The underlying allegations in the 227-page verified complaint were never adjudicated on the merits. The case itself cannot be refiled by the same plaintiffs against the same defendants.
I am not in a position to assess why AS Corp’s counsel failed to serve any of the defendants across fourteen months. That is not a question the public record answers. What the public record does show is that the defendants, through their counsel, secured a dismissal with prejudice without ever having to file an answer to the substantive allegations. The 227-page sworn factual pleading sits on the public federal docket as a matter of record, unanswered and now unanswerable by the specific plaintiffs who filed it.
A different plaintiff, harmed by the same conduct, represented by different counsel, is not bound by that procedural history. The conduct remains live for civil action by other plaintiffs. The Markovic plaintiffs, whose own civil racketeering complaint against the parallel AAA Freight side of the same network was dismissed without prejudice by Judge Mary M. Rowland in March 2023 with leave to amend, retain the ability to develop and refile their claims.
The captive insurance (risk retention group) center
Compass Specialty Insurance Risk Retention Group Inc. is, in some ways, the analytical center of the entire network.
A risk retention group is a specialized form of captive insurance authorized by the federal Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986. It lets a closed group of commercial operators who share an industry exposure collectively self-insure against that exposure, with premium dollars captured inside the group rather than paid out to the open market. In a compliant arms-length risk retention group, the insureds are diverse, unrelated commercial operators with a common business profile. In a captive risk retention group controlled by the principals of the carrier network, the risk retention group serves as a mechanism for retaining premium income within the broader principal structure, with reinsurance placements to the open market serving as a compliance coverage layer.
Compass Specialty RRG is domiciled in Tennessee, with its registered office at 115 West 55th Street, Suite 201, in Clarendon Hills. Roy Dobrasinovic is its president and chairman. Its board includes, among others, Angelia Demkovic at 6670 South Brainard Avenue Apartment 304 in Countryside, and Daliborka Savovic at 6670 South Brainard Avenue Apartment 403 in Countryside, both of whom live in the same residential building as Jelena Dobrasinovic, Roy’s family member and the documented controller of Compass Holding, at Apartment 326. The RRG has written policies on 348 carriers across its operational history. As of April 2026, two active policies remain.
One of the insured carriers was Super Ego Holding.
Administrator Derek Barrs’s April 2026 CBS confirmation that Super Ego is under federal investigation, therefore points directly to the Compass Specialty insured book.
Compass Specialty’s architecture does not stand alone. It operates alongside Citadel Risk Management Inc. and Citadel Risk Services Inc., with principal Art Coleman at 1011 US Route 22 in Bridgewater, New Jersey, with operations in the United States, Bermuda, and the United Kingdom, which served as excess and reinsurance providers to the RRG.
The pattern of insurance that represents compliant seven hundred fifty thousand dollar motor carrier liability coverage to the FMCSA and then fails to pay when it is time to pay is not unique to Compass. On May 3, 2022, Stefanie Hollins filed a Texas state court action in Harris County District Court, later removed to the Southern District of Texas as case 4:22-cv-02261, against Border City Insurance Services Inc. Hollins had obtained a five hundred fifty-five thousand two hundred ninety dollar state court judgment against Balkan Express LLC, motor carrier permit number 591082, arising from a December 9, 2020 crash. Border City had filed BMC-91X with the FMCSA, representing to the agency that the $750,000 MCS-90 policy for Balkan Express complied with 49 CFR 387.7. When Hollins obtained her judgment, Border City refused to pay. Hollins had to sue the insurer as a judgment creditor to compel payment under the federally mandated MCS-90 endorsement.
Border City and Balkan Express are separate from Compass and AAA Freight. The point is the operational profile. An interstate motor carrier insurer provides compliant seven-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar coverage to the FMCSA, but the coverage does not perform when it is time to pay an injured judgment creditor. Whether that profile is specific to a single captive or is more broadly distributed across the commercial motor carrier insurance market is a question for federal regulatory review.
The captive factoring center and the Markovic case
Captive factoring is the mirror image of captive insurance. Factoring is the business of buying trucking invoices at a discount and collecting them at face value from shippers and brokers. In an arms-length factoring relationship, the factor is an independent commercial finance company that the carrier freely chose among many competing factors. In a captive factoring relationship, the factor is owned by the same principals who own the carriers whose invoices it buys. The captive factoring spread, the difference between what the factor pays the carrier and what it collects from the shipper, becomes a profit center inside the principals’ consolidated books, while the individual drivers and owner operators receive less than face value for their haulage.
Compass Funding Solutions LLC is the captive factoring vehicle on the Dobrasinovic Compass side. Its senior vice president, per the 2020 verified federal complaint, is Vlad Kostik. Vlad Kostik, writing under the same name with a different Romanized spelling, Vladimir Kostic, resides at 11330 73rd Place in Burr Ridge, Illinois.
On December 12, 2021, Ivan Markovic and GMT Logistics Inc. filed a civil racketeering complaint in the Northern District of Illinois under docket number 1:21-cv-06628, assigned to Judge Mary M. Rowland. The complaint named Antonije Keljevic, Vlad Kostic, Alex Petrusevski, Giuliano Vladimir Djurkovic, TRU Funding LLC, AAA Holding LLC, AAA Logistics Group Inc. doing business as AAA Freight Inc., Boris Jager, UnitedWS Inc., PNC Financial Services Group, PNC bankers Igor Boskovic and Tomislav Todorovic, and Verizon Corporation as defendants. The complaint sought ten million dollars in damages.
The pleaded facts in the Markovic complaint describe the mechanics of the operation in unusual detail for a civil racketeering pleading. Markovic, who had incorporated GMT Logistics Inc. in Missouri on July 1, 2019, at 100 South 4th Street in St. Louis, traveled to Serbia in July 2020 to visit his son and family during the COVID-19 pandemic. In his absence, according to the complaint, Giuliano Djurkovic, whom Markovic had known since 2008 and had helped find trucking work beginning in 2017, forged Markovic’s digital signature to obtain a two hundred fifty thousand dollar loan from TRU Funding LLC on October 23, 2020, and a one hundred fifty thousand dollar Small Business Administration disaster loan through PNC Bank, both issued in the name of GMT Logistics. The complaint pleads that total loan obligations and cash withdrawals imposed on GMT Logistics under the scheme exceeded $420,000.
The TRU Funding loan file, per the complaint, included an IRS Form 8821 authorizing TRU Funding to obtain Markovic’s tax returns for years 2017 through 2022. That is a scope of personal financial access substantially broader than any single year’s factoring transaction would require. The loan documents carried Markovic’s forged digital signature but listed a Chicago Gold Coast address at 2 North Oak Street, which was not GMT Logistics' registered address in Missouri.
The complaint pleads that when Markovic returned from Serbia and discovered the scheme, PNC banker Tomislav Todorovic, whom the complaint identifies as a fellow Serbian, initially arranged to meet him at an Oberweis Ice Cream and Dairy Store on Waukegan Road rather than at the bank, and there told Markovic, in the complaint’s own pleaded language, that he should leave it alone, forget everything, or chill everything out, and that Djurkovic had hired a hitman to kill him. The complaint pleads that immediately after that meeting, Markovic drove past Djurkovic’s Chicago apartment at 3577 North Milwaukee Avenue and observed Djurkovic in a second-story window cleaning a handgun, and that subsequent Facebook posts by Djurkovic contained a video of Djurkovic cleaning his gun set to a rap song with the lyrics Gonna Pop Ya.
The complaint pleads that AAA Freight, through its manager Alex Petrusevski, facilitated the purchase of five trailers and two trucks in the name of GMT Logistics using the loan proceeds, and that AAA in turn leased the five trailers to UnitedWS Inc. at two thousand two hundred five dollars per trailer per month, with UnitedWS’s owner Boris Jager signing the lease documents at his Davenport, Iowa office. The complaint pleads that Jager told Markovic at a May 25, 2021, meeting at a Serbian restaurant called Skadarlija in LaGrange, Illinois, that Djurkovic had sold him the trailers, and that Jager at the same meeting stated he intended to fire Djurkovic, whom Markovic had not previously known was serving as the president of UnitedWS. The complaint pleads that a Power of Attorney dated April 13, 2021, was sent to Djurkovic by Alex Petrusevski at AAA in an apparent effort to paper over the earlier transactions in which Djurkovic had signed Markovic’s forged name, and that Djurkovic responded to the emailed power of attorney with the message, verbatim, “Thanks, bro. Next time, send a text so I can see it. I was out in the field.”
The same Vlad Kostic named in the 2020 Compass Funding Solutions complaint is named in the 2021 Markovic complaint against the Keljevic AAA network. One person. Two branded networks. Documented senior role in the factoring captive on the Compass side. Documented co-defendant in the racketeering complaint on the AAA side.
TRU Funding LLC, the captive factoring company named in the Markovic complaint, was organized in Illinois on October 29, 2019, at 9550 West Sergo Drive, Unit 104, in McCook by Antonije Keljevic, Bojan Delibasic, and Nenad Cudic as co-founding managers, with attorney Igor Bozic as organizer and registered agent. The McCook address is roughly five miles from the 9001 West 79th Place Justice truck yard. Delibasic is the principal of Maybach International Group LLC at DOT 2487790 in Alsip. Cudic is a former director of the Serbian League of Canada, a Toronto-based organization representing the Serbian national diaspora. Both Delibasic and Cudic maintain residences on Bayshore Drive in Miami and organized parallel Nevada holding companies, BD87 Holdings LLC and NC 331 Capital Holding LLC, at the same Las Vegas address, 3625 South Town Center Drive, Suite 150, on November 4, 2024. That date was one day before the 2024 United States presidential election. The two filings were separate, but they were executed the same day at the same address at the same law firm.
In June 2020, Aleksandar Keljevic was recorded as a personal debtor on a TRU Funding-secured transaction under Illinois UCC filing 025654005, with TRU Funding as the secured party at its McCook address. That is a sworn filing in which Aleksandar Keljevic, the brother of the AAA Freight principal, personally borrowed from the family’s captive factoring company, which is the same factoring company the Markovic plaintiffs allege was used as a predatory instrument against them.
On September 2, 2025, TRU Funding LLC was restated in an Illinois annual report, replacing the three individual co-founding managers with a single corporate manager, 3LVD LLC, at 11217 Hiawatha Lane in Indian Head Park. The restatement removed Keljevic, Delibasic, and Cudic individually from the visible TRU Funding management record and placed a single corporate shield in their place. 3LVD LLC is also now the manager of AAA Holding LLC. Public information available to me suggests 3LVD LLC is a Delaware-registered entity, which provides a meaningful reduction in public disclosure of member and beneficial owner information compared to Illinois registration. Delaware is the jurisdiction of choice for entities whose controlling principals seek to obscure their direct ownership footprint.
The Markovic complaint was dismissed without prejudice in March 2023, with leave to amend by April 17, 2023. The First Amended Complaint at Docket 34 added Keljevic, Kostic, and Djurkovic back after initial service complications. The case remains refile-eligible. It has never been adjudicated on the merits.
The scale of the captive factoring operation is partially visible in a separate federal interpleader action filed June 23, 2022 in the Northern District of Illinois, where The Gray Casualty and Surety Company deposited a seventy-five thousand dollar freight broker bond penal sum against one hundred twenty-five claimants asserting five hundred eighty-two thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars in claims against the broker bond of TGX Logistics Inc. Both Compass Funding Solutions LLC and TRU Funding LLC appear among the one hundred twenty-five claimants, each asserting claims as factor of record for multiple small carriers. Compass Funding Solutions’ claim pool includes BR Cargo Solution LLC, whose principal place of business is in Clarendon Hills, and Compass United Carrier LLC, whose registered address is 115 West 55th Street, Fourth Floor, Clarendon Hills, the Compass Building itself. TRU Funding’s claim pool includes Atlas and Avion Carrier Solutions LLC of Iowa and Neighbors Logistics LLC of Indiana. The two captive factors, the Compass side and the AAA side, are claiming in the same federal interpleader case against the same bond pool.
Penske Truck Leasing, and the refusal to perform
Three months before the Markovic plaintiffs filed, on July 28, 2021, Penske Truck Leasing Co. L.P. filed its own federal complaint in the Northern District of Illinois, under docket number 1:21-cv-04023, against AAA Freight Inc., AAA Freight Holding LLC, and Antonije Keljevic personally. The complaint is short. Its architecture is not.
The underlying facts are these. On June 7, 2016, AAA Freight Inc. entered into a Vehicle Lease Service Agreement with Penske. Under Section 9(c) of that agreement, AAA Freight was required to maintain one million dollar combined single limit liability coverage naming Penske as an additional insured, with the coverage designated as primary and not excess. Under Section 10, AAA Freight was required to, in the agreement’s own capitalized language, protect, defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Penske and its partners from any and all claims arising from the ownership, use, maintenance, and operation of any Vehicle. Antonije Keljevic personally guaranteed the agreement as parent of AAA Holding Group LLC on May 1, 2018, signing from a Merrionette Park, Illinois address.
On February 28, 2018, the parties executed a Schedule A amendment inserting the following language verbatim into Section 8 of the agreement: “The parties acknowledge that Customer anticipates contracting with independent contractors to operate the Vehicles and Penske hereby consents to this arrangement, provided Customer agrees to remain fully responsible for the Contractor’s operation of the Vehicle, including, but not limited to, indemnifying Penske for any and all claims arising out of the actions or inactions of the Contractor and any physical damage to the Vehicle.”
That amendment is the kind of language that sophisticated counsel negotiate. It is also the language that places AAA Freight into the exact indemnification posture that the Penske lawsuit was later filed to enforce.
On August 20, 2020, a Penske-leased vehicle operated in AAA Freight’s service was involved in a crash. On November 25, 2020, Robert and Cheryl Trester filed suit in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, under case number 2020L012655, naming both AAA and Penske. On January 26, 2021, Penske counsel sent AAA a formal demand for defense and indemnity under the Vehicle Lease Service Agreement. On February 23, 2021, AAA formally denied the demand.
Penske sued AAA and Antonije Keljevic personally on July 28, 2021, for breach of the indemnity. The contract required one million dollars of primary coverage, naming Penske as an additional insured and personally guaranteed by AAA’s principal. When the obligation was called on, per the complaint, AAA declined to perform.
A national commercial fleet lessor does not typically file suit to recover on a standard indemnity clause against one of its active fleet customers. When it does, the fact pattern is reliably one in which the counterparty has both the contractual obligation and the capacity to perform, and has simply chosen not to. Penske is represented in the matter by Foland, Wickens, Roper, Hofer and Crawford of Kansas City. The case was assigned in the Northern District of Illinois.
This is the same operational profile that the Compass Specialty captive insurance pattern produces at the $750,000 FMCSA minimum coverage level, and that the Hollins and Border City Insurance Services case produces at the MCS-90 level. A sophisticated commercial counterparty, a federal regulator, or a state court judgment creditor is handed a facially compliant insurance representation. When the claim is made, the coverage does not perform. In the Penske case, the representation was not to a federal regulator. It was a bilateral commercial indemnity, personally guaranteed by the network’s principal. The response to the claim was the same.
The Romanian side: Dragos Sprinceana, Gold Coast, Pony Express, and Compass Truck Rental
If Compass Specialty RRG is the captive insurance center, and TRU Funding and Compass Funding Solutions are the captive factoring centers, Compass Truck Rental and Lease LLC, DOT 2473254, is the physical equipment pool.
I have written three in-depth articles on Dragos, but as big as he likes to think he is, he's one of the smaller, more indebted parties in this entire network. You can read articles one, two, and three via those respective links at Freightwaves.com.
Compass Truck Rental and Lease LLC operates approximately 1,800 power units from 15W580 North Frontage Road in Burr Ridge. Roy Dobrasinovic is the registered officer. The co-officer in FMCSA records is Edward Chira, a Romanian national who is actively engaged with the Romanian business community in Chicago and, as he publicly describes, promotes the largest event dedicated to the Romanian business community in Chicago.
A Romanian general manager at a 1,800-truck rental company controlled by the originator of the Serbian Chicago trucking diaspora did not emerge by chance.
On August 10, 2023, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration placed Gold Coast Logistics, the Illinois trucking operation controlled by Dragos Sprinceana, under DOT 2190975, federally out of service, in the name of DMG Consulting and Development Inc. The Gold Coast crash record at the point of the OOS order included ten confirmed fatalities across multiple years. The most catastrophic single event was a 2020 Wyoming crash involving VIN 1XP5DB9X05D861411 at Gold Coast plate K7798HY that produced three fatalities and twenty injuries.
Six months after the federal OOS order, in February 2024, Compass Funding Solutions LLC took assignment of a Gold Coast secured lien position previously held by RTS Financial. A factoring company owned by Roy Dobrasinovic acquired the debt of a federally revoked carrier owned by a Romanian operator whose former Chief Operations Officer, Ioan Ursu, had by then founded a successor carrier, Pony Express Group Inc., at DOT 3938729, at 225 Larkin Drive, Unit 4 in Wheeling, Illinois, approximately twenty miles from the original Gold Coast terminal.
The evidentiary crown jewel of the Gold Coast to Pony Express succession is a single photograph. Genlogs captured a Kenworth T680 tractor, unit number 92057, bearing Pony Express Group branding on the cab and a Compass Truck Rental sticker on the driver's door. The vehicle identification number on that unit traces to pre-revocation Gold Coast crashes. One physical truck bore three overlapping identifiers simultaneously: Pony Express as the post-revocation operating carrier, Compass Truck Rental as the equipment provider, and Gold Coast through the underlying VIN record.
That photograph is what it looks like when a federally revoked carrier’s equipment crosses the bankruptcy gap into a successor carrier operated by the revoked carrier’s former chief operating officer, using the rental infrastructure of a third operator who is simultaneously the factor of the revoked carrier’s inherited debt.
Eighteen months after the OOS order, in February 2025, Goldcoast Carriers Inc. at DOT 3014047, a separately registered Arizona entity controlled by Marian Visan, received a new “Roy D.” Compass UCC filing. A federal civil action, Inland Lease and Rental Inc. v. DMG Consulting and Development Inc. at case 1:24-cv-00608 in the District of New Mexico, documents that Marian Visan, the sole officer and director of Goldcoast Carriers Inc. Arizona, is an over-the-road truck driver who was never at his listed Park Ridge, Illinois address when process servers came, and that Gherghina Sprinceana, a Sprinceana family member, was listed as a business officer at a vacant Ajo, Arizona commercial suite.
On August 27, 2024, one year after the federal OOS order, VIN 3HSDZAPR2PN461257 at Goldcoast Carriers, Arizona plate 3264500, was involved in a fatal crash in Florida. The trucks that FMCSA took off the road continued to kill people. Nine additional injury crashes under the same Arizona entity through October 2024.
On February 12, 2026, Dragos Sprinceana signed his MCS-150 biennial update under a third carrier, Freight Transportation Group (DOT 3008326), based in Hampshire, Illinois, with a vehicle out-of-service rate of 46.2%. A carrier signed by Sprinceana, nearly three years after his previous carrier was federally placed out of service and the highest OOS rate of any active carrier in the Compass Orbit dataset, is the operational textbook definition of a chameleon carrier continuation.
One additional Gold Coast crash record warrants attention. VIN 1XKYD49X5NJ100678 at plate P962101, Gold Coast DMG DOT 2190975, produced a crash record on August 15, 2024, in Pennsylvania. That crash occurred three hundred fifty-two days after the federal out-of-service order. A vehicle registered to a federally revoked carrier was involved in a crash reported in a federal filing almost a year after the agency declared the carrier unfit to operate.
The Welsh case
On August 30, 2023, truck driver Brandon Tyler Welsh was murdered in Sidney, Ohio. LaShawn Dean Hughes was convicted of that murder in October 2024 in Shelby County, Ohio, criminal court. The discovery file in State of Ohio v. LaShawn Dean Hughes contains a forensic mobile extraction of Hughes’s cellular telephone.
Within that extraction are ninety-three screen captures of text messages and call logs between Hughes and multiple personnel of the Super Ego Holding network, spanning the period from March 6, 2023, through August 30, 2023, the day of the homicide.
At 11:01 a.m. on March 14, 2023, a dispatcher named Ana S., working from a phone number registered with a plus one three eight zero area code, self-identified in the messaging as Ana S. slash SUPER EGO, and texted Hughes the following instruction, verbatim:
“Give him our MC eight zero seven five nine zero Rocket expediting, if we are set up.”
Motor carrier number 807590 is the operating authority for Rocket Expediting LLC (DOT 2356464), a separately registered Ohio corporate entity with its own filings, fleet, insurance, and corporate officers.
A Super Ego Holding dispatcher, working from a Super Ego phone, self-identifying as Super Ego, referred to Rocket Expediting LLC’s motor carrier number as, in her own words, “our MC.”
That is operational unity. That is the evidence that the Atkinson class action plaintiffs allege, in documentary form, in the hands of Shelby County, Ohio, prosecutors, in a murder file.
One week earlier, the same Ana S. introduced herself to Hughes by texting him two email addresses in a single message: anas@rocketexpediting.com and anas@jhitransport.com. One dispatcher. One phone. Two separately branded carriers. Self-disclosed.
Tamara Markovic, operating from a different phone number and self-identifying as working from a safety office, directed Hughes at a separate point in the record to email his documents to safety at jhitransport dot com. Super Ego’s safety personnel used a JHI Transport domain email address. Incoming and outgoing telephone calls logged in the same extraction include calls to and from a number labeled in Hughes’s contacts as FLOYD HOLDINGS, placed in the days immediately preceding the homicide.
Four separately branded Super Ego network entities. Four separate phone lines. One driver. One six-month window.
Under oath, on October 24, 2024 in the Williams and Wood personal injury actions arising from a March 30, 2022 Levy County, Florida school bus crash that hospitalized five children, Aleksandar Mimic, the Chief Executive Officer of Super Ego Holding, testified that he is the person with the most knowledge about GPS data, video systems, master lease agreements, and relationships between Super Ego entities. He testified that Super Ego Holding owns and controls the GPS, dashcam, and electronic logging device accounts across all carrier entities in the network. He testified that master lease agreements between Super Ego Holding and Denmark Cargo Solutions govern truck ownership, payments, insurance, and operational control. He testified that he personally contacted insurance agents to request policy changes and coverage increases with multiple carriers, including Rocket Expediting. He testified that underwriting, administrative processing, and possibly dispatch functions are performed in Belgrade, Serbia, by companies he said he could not identify by name.
According to publicly available estimates and deposition references, the Belgrade operation employs approximately 1,200 Serbian nationals. The United States operation employs approximately 170 drivers in driver-facing roles and contracts with approximately 1,700 owner-operator drivers.
On October 14, 2025, Super Ego Holding LLC filed a civil lawsuit against its own President, Biljana Mimic, under case number 25 CA 010246 in Hillsborough County, Florida Circuit Court. The plaintiff is the holding company. The defendant is an officer of the network and a member of the Mimic family. That filing occurred two months after the August 6, 2025, Third Amended Complaint in Atkinson expanded the defendant pool.
A holding company suing its own corporate officer during active class-action litigation in a separate state jurisdiction is the kind of filing that happens when a network is coming apart from within. This is his sister. We won't even bring up the protective orders that arose from Alexander’s 2020ish separation, etc. Violence is in the cards.
So how else do Alexander Mimic and Super Ego tie to Roy D, AAA, and Antonije Keljevic? Well, Roy D held a fundraiser for Mark Brnovich for the AZ Senate at this Compass Arena. Alexander Mimic’s Super Ego donated $300k to Brnovich, Keljevic donated a few thousand, and Roy D, of course, held the event.
The political access layer
This section is where the record invites the most speculation, and speculation is not what this file is for.
In the spring of 2024, Ranko Ristic, the founder of Zastava Arms USA LLC in Des Plaines, Illinois, the exclusive United States importer of firearms from the Serbian state-owned Zastava Oruzje factory in Kragujevac, attended a reception at Mar-a-Lago with four additional Serbian-American businessmen whose names have not been publicly confirmed. That reception was reported by Deutsche Welle on February 18, 2025. According to Ristic’s own on-the-record statement to Deutsche Welle, then-former President Trump referred to former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, the son of Serbian immigrants and, at the time, a publicly touted prospective nominee for United States ambassador to Serbia, as a great friend and close associate during that reception. Ristic further stated, on the record, that he personally told President Trump during that reception that during the 1991 to 1995 Bosnian war, Bosnian Serbs had to defend themselves from three thousand mujahideen.
Ristic lives at 1515 Laverne Avenue in Park Ridge, Illinois, which is the same residential cluster that contains Aleksandar Mimic’s personal residence at 1517 North Dee Road, the law office of attorney Nick Duric at Duric Law Offices in Park Ridge, and the registered address of X Ray Logistics LLC at DOT 3760922, an entity with documented vehicle identification number crossovers to Maybach International Group of the Keljevic AAA Freight network.
On December 4, 2025, Ristic organized Strategic American Solutions LLC in Illinois at the same address, 1515 Laverne. The naming convention is consistent with a professional government affairs or lobbying vehicle. Whether the entity will register with the Illinois lobbying disclosure or with the United States Department of Justice Foreign Agents Registration Unit is an open question. Dragos still hasn't done so, and he and his group represented the US as part of a US FEC delegation to Romania.
In December 2024, a second Mar-a-Lago reception included Antonije Keljevic and his brother Aleksandar Keljevic, Milos Dimitrijevic of Connect Freight, and Vladimir and Nikola Vasiljevic.
The late Mark Brnovich, former Attorney General of Arizona, received donations to his 2022 United States Senate campaign from multiple principals of this network. Federal Election Commission records show that Antonije Keljevic contributed approximately 7,100 to Brnovich for Senate across multiple filings. Roy Dobrasinovic contributed two thousand nine hundred dollars to the same committee on June 30, 2022, from his Naples, Florida, residential address, and hosted Brnovich fundraising events at Compass Arena LLC in Clarendon Hills. Super Ego Holding, through its corporate parent structure, contributed approximately three hundred thousand dollars to Advancing Arizona Forward, the Super PAC supporting Brnovich’s Senate candidacy, across the 2021 and 2022 cycles. Dragos Sprinceana and his wife personally contributed to WARRIOR PAC at Federal Election Commission committee identifier C00797547, a federal political committee based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that sources independent of this author have characterized as a contribution vehicle for Mar-a-Lago access.
President Trump nominated Brnovich as the United States ambassador to the Republic of Serbia on March 28, 2025. Brnovich publicly described the nomination in Serbian diaspora media as stemming from his Serbian heritage and his affinity for Serbian cultural and political positions. The nomination was withdrawn in October 2025. Brnovich described the withdrawal on the record as resulting from opposition from the federal career bureaucracy. On January 12, 2026, Brnovich died of a reported heart attack at age fifty-nine. Nothing in the publicly available record suggests any cause other than natural.
The COVID loan layer and the federal program exposure
One of the least glamorous but most directly accountable parts of this file is the federal program exposure.
Sixty-five of Roy D’s confirmed Compass Specialty-insured carriers received Small Business Administration Economic Injury Disaster Loans during the 2020 to 2021 COVID loan window, totaling approximately $5.8 million. Combined with confirmed Paycheck Protection Program loans of approximately 874,000 dollars across the same carrier pool, the total confirmed federal COVID exposure across the Compass Specialty insured carrier network exceeds 6.7 million dollars.
Thirty-eight of Roy D’s clients at Compass Specialty insured carriers show same-day policy issuance and cancellation in the carrier insurance records, zero power units, and zero inspection history. That is the classic ghost carrier profile. Eleven of those thirty-eight received Economic Injury Disaster Loans. One carrier, VS Trucklines Inc. (DOT 2435788), has an entry in the FMCSA crash database with a fabricated vehicle identification number consisting of 17 eighths in a row. That entry is, on its face, a federal reporting violation under 49 Code of Federal Regulations, because vehicle identification numbers do not consist of seventeen repeated digits. VS Trucklines received a $150,000 Economic Injury Disaster Loan.
Compass Funding Solutions LLC has a documented pattern of filing secured creditor positions against carrier debtors after those carriers received SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans during the COVID period. Under Uniform Commercial Code Article 9, a perfected security interest on the carrier’s receivables gives Compass priority collection rights over the federal government in the event of default. GSB Logistics LLC received an SBA loan on July 4, 2020, and was subject to a UCC filing by Compass Funding Solutions LLC on August 26, 2020, a 53-day gap. LJ Logistics Inc. received an SBA loan on August 2, 2020, and was subject to a UCC filing by Compass Equipment Finance LLC on October 9, 2020, a 68-day gap. Creed Transport Inc. received an SBA loan on June 30, 2020, subject to a pre-existing 2017 Compass Funding Solutions lien.
Super Ego Holding itself received a $150,000 Economic Injury Disaster Loan on July 8, 2020. It was subject to an Illinois Uniform Commercial Code lien filed by Compass Funding Solutions LLC on July 17, 2020, nine days after the loan disbursement.
The federal government loaned money to the carrier. The carrier’s factor, owned by the same commercial family that insured the carrier, filed a secured creditor position nine days later.
Keep in mind that these SBA loans were given to applicants from this trucking network during a period when trucking rates, volume, and capacity were high, and the industry was doing extremely well.
The wind down
Something is happening right now inside this ecosystem, and for any federal investigator reading this, it is the thing that matters most operationally.
Between November 2024 and April 2026, Roy Dobrasinovic filed at least six new multi-state corporate formations outside the historical Illinois center of gravity of the Compass operation. Compass Truck Sales LLC in Indiana, December 2024. Compass Truck Rental and Leasing LLC in Indiana, 2024. Compass Logistics DeMotte LLC in Indiana, April 2025. Compass Payment Services LLC in Indiana, February 2026. Compass Insurance Group Inc. in Massachusetts, April 7, 2026, three weeks before the CBS 60 Minutes broadcast, with Roy Dobrasinovic listed simultaneously as president, treasurer, director, and secretary. Ford Height 2025 LLC in Illinois, 2025. Compass Equipment Finance LLC in Arkansas, previously.
On November 4, 2024, one day before the United States presidential election, Bojan Delibasic and Nenad Cudic organized BD87 Holdings LLC and NC 331 Capital Holding LLC, respectively, at the identical Las Vegas address of 3625 South Town Center Drive, Suite 150. On September 2, 2025, TRU Funding LLC was restated to move 3LVD LLC into sole manager status, removing the individual names of Keljevic, Delibasic, and Cudic from the visible management record. In October 2025, Savo Keljevic organized LTS Solutions Inc. in Countryside, Illinois.
Inside the Super Ego network, four corporate dissolutions have occurred within a sixty-day window ending January 2, 2026. Rocket Expediting LLC dissolved on November 3, 2025. Crena Transportation Services LLC dissolved on December 6, 2025. Twin Carrier LLC and E 7 Logistics LLC both dissolved on the same date, January 2, 2026. An additional three Super Ego network entities received insurance cancellation notices effective February 25, 2026. A Delaware-formed entity, Sky Blue Leasing LLC, organized March 22, 2024, at 614 North Dupont Highway, Suite 210, in Dover, with registered agent Lawyers Limited, publicly advertises on its own website a leasing service in which, per the website’s own text, your personal Super Ego Salesman will be happy to help.
Genlogs’ intelligence across the network’s core Chicago operating carriers, AAA Freight, Atlantic Freight, Amazon, Maybach, Nice Guys, Point Logistics, Pony Express, and Compass Truck Rental, shows a material reduction in road presence in the trailing seven days relative to the three-year baseline for the same carriers. The aggregate severe violation count across the six primary Chicago cluster carriers in the trailing 36-month window stands at 144. The total number of identified power units subsequently operated by other entities after leaving those carriers numbered in the high hundreds.
Equipment is moving. Corporate vehicles are multiplying. Individual principals are retreating behind holding companies. Insurance is being canceled. Entities are being dissolved. The ownership layer is being progressively migrated into Delaware, Nevada, Indiana, and Massachusetts shells. And the network’s two most publicly exposed branded faces, Super Ego and Gold Coast, are the ones restructuring fastest.
I am not going to tell you what it all means.
I am going to tell you that in the period between February 1999 and April 2026, a commercial motor carrier ecosystem grew up in metropolitan Chicago that concentrated its operational succession at two specific physical addresses, that built captive insurance and captive factoring vehicles controlled by the same principals who controlled the carriers, that employed approximately twelve hundred personnel in Belgrade, Serbia supporting approximately seventeen hundred owner operator drivers in the United States, that was the subject of a 227-page sworn verified federal civil racketeering complaint whose underlying allegations were never adjudicated on the merits and whose procedural dismissal was secured by defendants without ever filing an answer, that was the subject of three additional federal civil complaints that remain refile-eligible or live and unadjudicated, that produced eleven confirmed fatalities across its Romanian branch alone including one fatality under a successor entity one year after the federal government placed the predecessor out of service, that left one of its drivers murdered in Shelby County, Ohio with documentary evidence of the network’s operational unity in the murder file, and that has now become the named subject of an FMCSA investigation confirmed by the agency’s administrator on national television.
I am going to tell you that while all of that was happening, principals of this network contributed meaningful sums to a single United States Senate candidate who later became an ambassador nominee to Serbia, whose nomination was withdrawn, who died of a heart attack two months after the nomination’s withdrawal, and whose withdrawal was publicly attributed by the nominee himself to opposition from the federal career bureaucracy.
I am not going to draw the connection between those things for you. The record is there. Whether the adjacencies are a coincidence, whether they are the product of a specific diaspora’s organic assimilation into American political life, or whether they are something else, is not for me to say.
What I am going to say is that a 227-page verified federal complaint alleging racketeering by a Chicago trucking ecosystem does not get filed by accident. Corporate vehicles do not get set up in Delaware and Nevada on the day before a presidential election by accident. A driver’s murder file does not contain documentary proof of operational unity across four branded carrier entities by accident. A national commercial fleet lessor does not sue one of its active fleet customers for breach of indemnity by accident either.
At the end of the day, many of these recruited foreign drivers are allegedly being exploited, which is the basis for the lawsuits we have access to.
I will have more in the coming weeks. There is more in the record than fits in one piece.