N. Kosovo businessman denies allegations

I’m not a smuggler, I pay my taxes to Belgrade, I did not organize violence, says northern Kosovo businessman Zvonko Veselinović.

Izvor: Danas

Saturday, 08.10.2011.

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I’m not a smuggler, I pay my taxes to Belgrade, I did not organize violence, says northern Kosovo businessman Zvonko Veselinovic. He added that the “alternative roads” were built by state-owned companies, N. Kosovo businessman denies allegations Veselinovic also told daily Danas that he “is at the authorities’ disposal 24 hours a day”. He denied allegations of certain Pristina and Belgrade media that he “led the attack” on KFOR troops at the Jarinje administrative checkpoint on September 27 and speculations that he “is the chief oil and cigarette smuggler in northern Kosovo”. “If Serbian state organs have any evidence that I did something wrong, other that the fact that I am a Serb, I am at their disposal 24 hours a day. I will go wherever they need me to, I’ll give a statement and deny the accusations with arguments. Kosovo police know where they can find me, they have the address I am registered to in my ID card. I am ready to answer for my actions but only to the state of Serbia, because it is the only one I recognize. I don’t recognize the quasi-state of Kosovo,” he was quoted as saying. He claims that he “has nothing to do with torching of the Jarinje checkpoint” in late July because, as he said, he was not even there at the time. Veselinovic explained that he was not involved in politics and that he only supported his people in northern Kosovo. He added that reports about local Serbs being armed were ridiculous and untrue, pointing out that only police carried weapon. He also denied that he had recently sent death threats to Belgrade team head Borislav Stefanovic and that he had anything to do with construction of a new road around the Rudnica and Jarinje checkpoints. “Anybody can check that those roads are built by state-owned companies, which are respectable both in Kosovo and Metohija and in the rest of Serbia. These roads are being publicly built and they should help the people get the groceries and meet the basic living needs,” the businessman pointed out. When asked to comment on claims that he is “the chief gas and cigarette smuggler in northern Kosovo”, he said that he had “never in his life smuggled a single cigarette or a liter of gas”. The Jarinje checkpoint (Tanjug, file)

N. Kosovo businessman denies allegations

Veselinović also told daily Danas that he “is at the authorities’ disposal 24 hours a day”.

He denied allegations of certain Priština and Belgrade media that he “led the attack” on KFOR troops at the Jarinje administrative checkpoint on September 27 and speculations that he “is the chief oil and cigarette smuggler in northern Kosovo”.

“If Serbian state organs have any evidence that I did something wrong, other that the fact that I am a Serb, I am at their disposal 24 hours a day. I will go wherever they need me to, I’ll give a statement and deny the accusations with arguments. Kosovo police know where they can find me, they have the address I am registered to in my ID card. I am ready to answer for my actions but only to the state of Serbia, because it is the only one I recognize. I don’t recognize the quasi-state of Kosovo,” he was quoted as saying.

He claims that he “has nothing to do with torching of the Jarinje checkpoint” in late July because, as he said, he was not even there at the time.

Veselinović explained that he was not involved in politics and that he only supported his people in northern Kosovo. He added that reports about local Serbs being armed were ridiculous and untrue, pointing out that only police carried weapon.

He also denied that he had recently sent death threats to Belgrade team head Borislav Stefanović and that he had anything to do with construction of a new road around the Rudnica and Jarinje checkpoints.

“Anybody can check that those roads are built by state-owned companies, which are respectable both in Kosovo and Metohija and in the rest of Serbia. These roads are being publicly built and they should help the people get the groceries and meet the basic living needs,” the businessman pointed out.

When asked to comment on claims that he is “the chief gas and cigarette smuggler in northern Kosovo”, he said that he had “never in his life smuggled a single cigarette or a liter of gas”.

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