Balkan crime figure Saso Ristevski killed during botched robbery: police

By Ava Benny-Morrison and Angela Thompson
Updated July 1 2016 - 6:13pm, first published 4:16pm
Lake Heights man Saso Ristevski. Photo: Fairfax Archives
Lake Heights man Saso Ristevski. Photo: Fairfax Archives
Police are searching a home in Warrawong, in the NSW Illawarra, after arresting a man in connection with 2011 shooting death of Saso Ristevski.   Photo: Illawarra Mercury
Police are searching a home in Warrawong, in the NSW Illawarra, after arresting a man in connection with 2011 shooting death of Saso Ristevski. Photo: Illawarra Mercury

A robbery gone wrong was behind the death of a crime figure, who was attacked under orders from a drug rival in the NSW Illawarra, police will allege.