BIA "to respond" to request concerning secret files

The security service BIA has confirmed it received the special prosecutor's request to provide information about the files allegedly held by Radomir Marković.

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Thursday, 21.11.2013.

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BELGRADE The security service BIA has confirmed it received the special prosecutor's request to provide information about the files allegedly held by Radomir Markovic. BIA officials told the Beta news agency on Thursday said that the prosecutor's request will be answered, but that there was "no legal deadline" for this. BIA "to respond" to request concerning secret files Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime Miljko Radisaljevic asked the service for a response after allegations that former Department of State Security (RDB) chief Markovic had taken the secret files and was threatening to publish them. The government Commission for Investigating Murder of Journalists interviewed Markovic recently and said afterwards that he threatened that, unless he was "left alone" regarding the investigation into the murder of journalist Slavko Curuvija, he would published 15 files "which would have devastating consequences for him and for the country." According to the commission's statement, he specified that his wife had the files and would publish them. Markovic then sent a letter to the newspaper Politika and denied that he was blackmailing the state, while his wife also made a statement, rejecting the claims that she was in possession of secret dossiers. Markovic is currently serving a 40-year sentence for his involvement in the 1999 murder of several SPO party officials on the Ibar highway, and for the murder of the former president of Serbia, Ivan Stambolic, in 2000. He recently requested to be pardoned by the president. The BIA insignia (file) Beta

BIA "to respond" to request concerning secret files

Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime Miljko Radisaljević asked the service for a response after allegations that former Department of State Security (RDB) chief Marković had taken the secret files and was threatening to publish them.

The government Commission for Investigating Murder of Journalists interviewed Marković recently and said afterwards that he threatened that, unless he was "left alone" regarding the investigation into the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, he would published 15 files "which would have devastating consequences for him and for the country."

According to the commission's statement, he specified that his wife had the files and would publish them.

Marković then sent a letter to the newspaper Politika and denied that he was blackmailing the state, while his wife also made a statement, rejecting the claims that she was in possession of secret dossiers.

Marković is currently serving a 40-year sentence for his involvement in the 1999 murder of several SPO party officials on the Ibar highway, and for the murder of the former president of Serbia, Ivan Stambolić, in 2000.

He recently requested to be pardoned by the president.

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