Who gave orders in Kovačević case?

The former consul general in the U.S. has called on FM Vuk Jeremic to publish phone records to determine who ordered a passport be issued to Miladin Kovacevic. Slobodan Nenadovic sent an open letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was printed by Borba newspaper today, stating that he “spent a full 16 days in custody in the Belgrade District Court because of the Kovacevic case and that time will show that there was no legal reason for that.” Who gave orders in Kovacevic case? Borba has been at the center of a storm concerning the controversy, when it published confidential government information related to negotiations for a possible settlement of the case. Kovacevic fled the United States when he jumped bail, using temporary travel documents issued to him by the Serbian consulate in New York. He is accused of inflicting serious injuries to a fellow student in a barroom fight last year. Now Nenadovic, reacting to Jeremic’s statement that “officials of the MFA, and those who gave orders and issued the passport to Kovacevic will be severely punished,” says it is "understandable that he is interested in who the person who ordered the issuing of the documents is". “The reason for this insistence brought up the suspicion that it there indeed was some person, completely unknown to me, who could have ordered consul Milosevic to issue a passport in this case,” he said. “No one was interested in getting these phone records, which, after you have already found out who the name of the person who ordered, are in fact no longer needed,” Nenadovic wrote in his letter to Jeremic. The MFA told FoNet news agency this afternoon that review of phone records is not within its jurisdiction, since it up to the criminal investigators, but that the ministry is, "just as before, ready to cooperate with organs with jurisdiction [in the case]".

Who gave orders in Kovačević case?

Borba has been at the center of a storm concerning the controversy, when it published confidential government information related to negotiations for a possible settlement of the case.

Kovačević fled the United States when he jumped bail, using temporary travel documents issued to him by the Serbian consulate in New York.

He is accused of inflicting serious injuries to a fellow student in a barroom fight last year.

Now Nenadović, reacting to Jeremić’s statement that “officials of the MFA, and those who gave orders and issued the passport to Kovačević will be severely punished,” says it is "understandable that he is interested in who the person who ordered the issuing of the documents is".

“The reason for this insistence brought up the suspicion that it there indeed was some person, completely unknown to me, who could have ordered consul Milošević to issue a passport in this case,” he said.

“No one was interested in getting these phone records, which, after you have already found out who the name of the person who ordered, are in fact no longer needed,” Nenadović wrote in his letter to Jeremić.

The MFA told FoNet news agency this afternoon that review of phone records is not within its jurisdiction, since it up to the criminal investigators, but that the ministry is, "just as before, ready to cooperate with organs with jurisdiction [in the case]".