PM says "others should be worried about Šarić"

PM and SPS leader Ivica Dačić says he "cannot wait for Darko Šarić to be arrested" so that all those who collaborated with him could also be "processed."

Izvor: Beta

Friday, 21.02.2014.

16:19

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PM says "others should be worried about Šarić"

His statement came after his former cabinet chief, Branko Lazarević, was questioned on suspicion that he had ties with the fugitive, on trial in absentia for masterminding cocaine trafficking from South America to Europe.

Dačić said that his first deputy in the government and SNS leader Aleksandar Vučić "has nothing to do with the initiation of the Lazarević case," nor with the timing of the events.

"This case should be deprived of any political angle. It does not in any way adversely affect my relationships with the SNS and Aleksandar Vučić," he told reporters.

"I wish to say this in order to avoid unnecessary quarrels between the SNS and the SPS," Dačić continued, and appealed to all politicians, his colleagues in the party, coalition parties, including United Serbia (JS) leader Dragan Marković Palma, "not to bring in political elements to the whole case."

Marković said in a statement that the case was proof that "nobody is untouchable in Serbia," and that his comments made earlier in the day were "about previous governments, not the current one."

"Prime Minister Ivica Dačić, who is also minister of internal affairs, and First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić, who is in charge of the fight against organized crime and corruption, have proven that nobody is protected (from prosecution) and that party affiliation of someone violating the law will not spare them, " said Marković.

Earlier on Friday, the JS leader and Dačić's coalition partner told B92 that the questioning and the brief detention of Lazarević earlier this week represented "media propaganda deliberately launched in the pre-election period."

SNS Vice-President Nebojša Stefanović then reacted strongly to this statement, inviting Marković and his coalition partners to "clearly and today" take a stand on the fight corruption and crime, and say whether he and the leaders of the coalition to which he belongs had requested "a postponement of this case."

"The real question is not why the case against Branko Lazarević was launched now - the real question is why this had not happen sooner, and who were the ones preventing it for years," said Stefanović.

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