Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his family members Andrej, Andjelko and Danilo were tapped 1,572 times, meaning that so many phone contacts were recorded illegally, Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said this evening
After a meeting of the National Security Council on 6 March at 6pm, he added that transcripts of these conversations had been taken and handed over to some Interior Ministry officers.
“All of them were examined by a polygraph, I will say at once – they all fell for the most important questions that we asked them, and it mainly concerns illegal wiretapping of the president’s phone conversations. This should never happen again to anyone in Serbia, ever”, – Vulin stressed, adding that a large number of employees of the Interior Ministry and the BIA were also questioned.
According to him, everything has been handed over to the Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime.
He added that he could say that the Belivuk-Miljkovic criminal group was dispersed, after which several photos of the murdered people and weapons were shown.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at the beginning that there were several points at the meeting of the National Security Council, the first point being Kosovo and Metohija, the analysis of the situation, the continuation of the dialogue and the continuing pressure on Serbia to recognize the independence of Kosovo.
The third item was about organized crime, and the fourth was about procuring new equipment and everything else needed for the BIA, VOA, MUP and the fight against corruption and organized crime, and in that item Vucic also mentioned additional weapons.
He said that it had been discovered that members of criminal gangs had pictures and marked faces of people from BIA and MUP. He added that we would have new information in the next 72 hours and that four murders would be investigated and there would be more missing.
He said they had managed to find out everything with the help of “devices we borrowed from friends” and that “everyone will be behind bars”.
The meetings were attended by Prime Minister Ana Brnabić, Defence Minister Nebosa Stefanović, Police Minister Aleksandar Vulin, Finance Minister Sinisa Mali, Foreign Minister Nikola Selaković, Justice Minister Maja Popović, BIA director Bratislav Gašić, Serbian Army Chief of Staff Milan Mojsilović and Police Chief Vladimir Rebić.
As a reminder, the meeting of the National Security Council was originally planned for Friday, 26 February, but was postponed, as Vucic said, for formal legal reasons.
He then announced that he would announce the information to the public no later than Thursday, which will shock Serbia, but also “all of Europe and the whole world”.
“We will win this fight (against crime), and I promised that months ago. I said softly that people will be shocked. We will have to say in advance that everyone should take their children away from the television. You will see who swore the killers in, how and what they got from them”, – the president said last weekend.
A judge in a previous procedure at Belgrade’s High Court, the Special Division for Combating Organized Crime, ruled yesterday to extend the custody of suspect Veljko Belivuk and nineteen members of his group for up to 30 days.
Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said on 7 March that the prosecutor’s office had obtained the names of Interior Ministry officers who he said had broken the law and abused the system by bugging Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his family members.
Vulin told TV Prva that these individuals were currently at large and that the prosecution could determine the measure of their detention.
“The police have unequivocally shown that there has been abuse of the system, and the prosecution should say what happened there and what sanctions it expects from the court. I believe we have proved that these people broke the law and abused the system and the investigation will show why this was done and whether there was support from abroad”, – Vulin said.
The wiretapping of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s phone calls is a coup attempt, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić said on 7 March.
“It has to be investigated to the end, to every cog in the mechanism, to every motive”, – Brnabic said on TV Pink’s Hit Tweet.
She stressed that there was nothing in the recorded material that could expose President Vucic.
Brnabic added that she was glad that, according to her, something positive was shown in the whole accident, namely that Vucic has the right policy and works in the interest of the country.