Zora Colakovic is a California attorney and investigator who is owner and CEO of Aespion Chateau, Inc. DBA Aespion International Investigations, a Los-Angeles based firm specialized in criminal investigations. Ms. Colakovic is currently posted in Bangui, where she serves as an investigator for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).
As a Los-Angeles investigator, Ms. Colakovic specialized in court-appointed complex cases involving organized crime, street gangs, violent felonies, and financial crime. Ms. Colakovic was appointed on numerous large-scale federal indictments for criminal enterprises, including the Aryan Brotherhood, Mexican Mafia, and MS-13. She interviewed witnesses at maximum security prisons such as ADMAX Colorado. Ms. Colakovic also conducted international investigations for missing persons locates, immigration matters, fugitive apprehensions, protective escorts, and undercover operations. Ms. Colakovic gathered evidence and interviewed witnesses in China for a weapons importation case, and investigated a high profile case at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague.
Ms. Colakovic holds a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School Los Angeles with concentrations in International Criminal and Human Rights Law and Criminal Justice. As an international law advisor, Ms. Colakovic was posted in Uganda while supporting the Directorate of Public Prosecutions in a war crimes case against a Lord’s Resistance Army commander. Ms. Colakovic also spent months in Guatemala, where she contributed to indictments against officials for war crimes and genocide in the Guatemalan civil war. Ms. Colakovic provided legal submissions for the Co-Prosecutor of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and wrote petitions on extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and torture pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.