Investigation against former minister, BIA director dropped

Investigation against former Interior Minister Dragan Jocic and Information-Security Agency (BIA) Director Rade Bulatovic was halted. This came due to pressures from the then government. Investigation against former minister, BIA director dropped The probe was launched in 2006 at the request of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), That is the reason why it remained unclear why Milorad Ulemek aka Legija was taken to the interior minister’s cabinet upon his arrest, instead to prison as the law envisaged. Four years since the investigation was launched, Prosecutor Zoran Jakovljevic who was handling the case told B92 that he had made an official note back then which had been archived together with the case file. He explained that he had not gone public with this until now because he, as a prosecutor, had no permission from his superiors. “The file was physically taken away from me at one moment and I was unable to finish what I was obligated, and what I was supposed to do under the law,” Jakovljevic said. “Therefore, a decision was made that there was no room for launching of criminal procedures. In my official note, which I made under enormous pressure, aside from what I stated, it seems to me that I ascertained that I had received an order from my superiors to stop all work on the case,” the prosecutor stressed. LDP filed criminal charges under suspicion that an official note of the interior minister containing details about the conversation that he and Bulatovic had with Ulemek, which had been made public, was actually fake. In accordance with the Law on Access to Information reporters of B92's Insajder program have requested an answer from the First Municipal Prosecution, regarding the reason for dropping the charges against former representatives of competent institutions. The prosecution's answer was that the request was denied.

Investigation against former minister, BIA director dropped

The probe was launched in 2006 at the request of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),

That is the reason why it remained unclear why Milorad Ulemek aka Legija was taken to the interior minister’s cabinet upon his arrest, instead to prison as the law envisaged.

Four years since the investigation was launched, Prosecutor Zoran Jakovljević who was handling the case told B92 that he had made an official note back then which had been archived together with the case file.

He explained that he had not gone public with this until now because he, as a prosecutor, had no permission from his superiors.

“The file was physically taken away from me at one moment and I was unable to finish what I was obligated, and what I was supposed to do under the law,” Jakovljević said.

“Therefore, a decision was made that there was no room for launching of criminal procedures. In my official note, which I made under enormous pressure, aside from what I stated, it seems to me that I ascertained that I had received an order from my superiors to stop all work on the case,” the prosecutor stressed.

LDP filed criminal charges under suspicion that an official note of the interior minister containing details about the conversation that he and Bulatović had with Ulemek, which had been made public, was actually fake.

In accordance with the Law on Access to Information reporters of B92's Insajder program have requested an answer from the First Municipal Prosecution, regarding the reason for dropping the charges against former representatives of competent institutions.

The prosecution's answer was that the request was denied.