“Police know who is behind B92 death notices”

Unnamed police officers from the town of Lazarevac claim in a letter they sent to B92 that local police heads know who is behind B92 death notices. They also added that the local police heads wanted to cover it up. “Police know who is behind B92 death notices” A copy of the letter was also sent to a Belgrade police chief. The police announced a month and a half ago that there were indications about who was behind the death notices that were put up around Lazarevac after B92 investigative program Insajder had revealed abuse in the Kolubara coal mine. The names of the perpetrators have never been released. Belgrade police Chief Stevan Bjelic told B92 that he had also received the letter from unnamed police officers from Lazarevac. The group of police officers claims, among other things, that Lazarevac police officer Predrag Savkic saw former Kolubara Director Dragan Tomic’s driver Nenad Pavlovic aka Neks among the persons who put up the B92 death notices. They also claim that the local police heads are trying to cover up the entire case because they themselves are involved in the abuse in the coal mine. “On the night in question the death notices were put up on the Lazarevac police station headquarters as well, and we watched our shift commander Dragan Lekic take down B92 death notices together with other workers on duty. Pavlovic Nenad is Chief Milan Stefanovic’s family friend and one of the people who helped Stefanovic become the chief, and he also helped Bojan Simic become a police field office commander. Just to remind you, Commander Simic put a truck in the Kolubara through Pavlovic and that way made a large financial gain,” the police officers said in the letter. Both the Lazarevac police chief and the commander denied the allegations. Tomic has stopped answering calls, so B92 was been unable to get his statement. Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Spokesman Petar Petkovic is not answering B92 calls either. His party stated recently that neither the DSS nor its officials had anything to do with the B92 death notices. DSS official Andreja Mladenovic pointed out that he really did not know who was behind the death notices and that it especially was not his party. When asked how come the DSS’ name was on the notices, he said that he could only condemn it and explained that he did not wish anybody’s death and that the DSS had never said that in any way. The death notices appeared in mid-February as a response to the B92 program which, among other things, revealed that the state-owned company’s machine lease costs had been unjustifiably high while Tomic had been a director and that he had leased machines from a company that he co-owned. After calls for a boycott of B92, the B92 death notices with the names of B92 editors and journalists were plastered all over the town of Lazarevac. The Lazarevac police have announced that an organized group of people was behind it and that they had strong indications who they were. The police at the time thought they would find the persons responsible for the death notices in a few days. The B92 death notices

“Police know who is behind B92 death notices”

A copy of the letter was also sent to a Belgrade police chief.

The police announced a month and a half ago that there were indications about who was behind the death notices that were put up around Lazarevac after B92 investigative program Insajder had revealed abuse in the Kolubara coal mine. The names of the perpetrators have never been released.

Belgrade police Chief Stevan Bjelić told B92 that he had also received the letter from unnamed police officers from Lazarevac.

The group of police officers claims, among other things, that Lazarevac police officer Predrag Savkić saw former Kolubara Director Dragan Tomić’s driver Nenad Pavlović aka Neks among the persons who put up the B92 death notices.

They also claim that the local police heads are trying to cover up the entire case because they themselves are involved in the abuse in the coal mine.

“On the night in question the death notices were put up on the Lazarevac police station headquarters as well, and we watched our shift commander Dragan Lekić take down B92 death notices together with other workers on duty. Pavlović Nenad is Chief Milan Stefanović’s family friend and one of the people who helped Stefanović become the chief, and he also helped Bojan Simić become a police field office commander. Just to remind you, Commander Simić put a truck in the Kolubara through Pavlović and that way made a large financial gain,” the police officers said in the letter.

Both the Lazarevac police chief and the commander denied the allegations. Tomić has stopped answering calls, so B92 was been unable to get his statement.

Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Spokesman Petar Petković is not answering B92 calls either. His party stated recently that neither the DSS nor its officials had anything to do with the B92 death notices.

DSS official Andreja Mladenović pointed out that he really did not know who was behind the death notices and that it especially was not his party. When asked how come the DSS’ name was on the notices, he said that he could only condemn it and explained that he did not wish anybody’s death and that the DSS had never said that in any way.

The death notices appeared in mid-February as a response to the B92 program which, among other things, revealed that the state-owned company’s machine lease costs had been unjustifiably high while Tomić had been a director and that he had leased machines from a company that he co-owned.

After calls for a boycott of B92, the B92 death notices with the names of B92 editors and journalists were plastered all over the town of Lazarevac.

The Lazarevac police have announced that an organized group of people was behind it and that they had strong indications who they were. The police at the time thought they would find the persons responsible for the death notices in a few days.