Jovanjica: Service in the service of crime

17.August 2023 Jelena Zoric

In the new issue: Honest police officers in the crosshairs of the regime

From the stalking of Chief Slobodan Milenkovic, who exposed Jovanjica through media control, to the communication of the owner of the Jovanjica estate, Predrag Koluvija, with the former director of the BIA and the current Minister of Police, Bratislav Gašić, so much evidence is emerging about the connection of the secret service with one of the biggest cases of organized crime that no one defendants, nor from state officials and does not try to hide it

Jovanjica: Testimony of inspector Dusan Mitić

12.July 2023 Jelena Zoric

Why did we want to arrest the director of the BIA

One after the other, the defense attorneys, Koluvija, as well as the prosecutor, tried to challenge the testimony of inspector Dušan Mitić, who said that his and his colleagues' intention was to arrest the then director of the BIA, and the current minister of police, Bratislava Gašić and Mirko Šker (head of the Belgrade center in the BIA at the time of the discovery of Jovanjica), and that the information about their involvement in the case of "Jovanjica" was "of the highest quality". As Mitić pointed out, the head of the Fourth Department, Slobodan Milenkovic, asked the prosecutor's office to prosecute Škero and Gasić, after which frequent pressures began.

State and organized crime

16.June 2023 BIRN

Inspector Mitić's testimony: "Jovanjica" worked under the auspices of the state

Inspector Dušan Mitić of the Belgrade Police Narcotics Control Department testified before the Special Court about the "abnormal" pressure to release "Jovanjica". The head of the BIA at the time, and the current minister of the interior, Bratislav Gašić, was in direct contact with the people who ran the largest marijuana plantation in Europe.