Clinton: Pull support for Serbian basketball
Hillary Clinton wants four companies to withdraw their sponsorship of the Serbian Basketball Association (KSS).
Friday, 12.09.2008.
11:21
Hillary Clinton wants four companies to withdraw their sponsorship of the Serbian Basketball Association (KSS). According to daily Politika, the American senator has called on the companies to suspend funding as long as Miladin Kovacevic—accused of brutally assaulting a fellow student—is allowed to play professional basketball in Serbia. Clinton: Pull support for Serbian basketball Clinton said that the companies in question were AND1, Turkish brewery Efes, Serbian Hemofarm and Italian Basicnet, owner of the Kapa brand, which have their head offices in the U.S. or do business there. “These companies should not support the KSS until they kick Mr. Kovacevic off the basketball court, so that he can be brought to justice immediately,” read a statement from the New York senator, who has been personally involved in putting pressure on Belgrade to extradite the runaway student. Kovacevic is accused of brutally assaulting a fellow student from Binghamton University in May. After spending a month in custody, he fled the U.S. using a passport issued to him by the Serbian vice-consul in New York. American Congress and New York state officials, Clinton included, have threatened to suspend all financial aid from the U.S. to Serbia if Kovacevic is not extradited to the U.S. Kovacevic, who played college basketball in Binghamton for a short while, recently signed for Serbian second division club Vrbas. The KSS stated that Clinton’s demands were “illogical.” “For us there were no obstacles for Miladin Kovacevic to sign for Vrbas, since that Christian name and surname are very common in Serbia. Be that as it may, he is 100 percent clean as far as our regulations are concerned. If there are reasons for his extradition, the KSS has nothing to do with it,” KSS Secretary General Predrag Bojic said. Hillary Clinton (FoNet, archive)
Clinton: Pull support for Serbian basketball
Clinton said that the companies in question were AND1, Turkish brewery Efes, Serbian Hemofarm and Italian Basicnet, owner of the Kapa brand, which have their head offices in the U.S. or do business there.“These companies should not support the KSS until they kick Mr. Kovačević off the basketball court, so that he can be brought to justice immediately,” read a statement from the New York senator, who has been personally involved in putting pressure on Belgrade to extradite the runaway student.
Kovačević is accused of brutally assaulting a fellow student from Binghamton University in May. After spending a month in custody, he fled the U.S. using a passport issued to him by the Serbian vice-consul in New York.
American Congress and New York state officials, Clinton included, have threatened to suspend all financial aid from the U.S. to Serbia if Kovačević is not extradited to the U.S.
Kovačević, who played college basketball in Binghamton for a short while, recently signed for Serbian second division club Vrbas.
The KSS stated that Clinton’s demands were “illogical.”
“For us there were no obstacles for Miladin Kovačević to sign for Vrbas, since that Christian name and surname are very common in Serbia. Be that as it may, he is 100 percent clean as far as our regulations are concerned. If there are reasons for his extradition, the KSS has nothing to do with it,” KSS Secretary General Predrag Bojić said.
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