Former MUP State Secretary Dijana Hrkalović was heard today in the Special Court on charges of influence peddling. She denied that her name was mentioned in the telephone communication between Veljko Belivuk and a high-ranking member of the Gendarmerie Nenad Vučković Vuček. To the judge's insistence that she declare herself about the mention of "D" and "Dijana", she replied that she "disputes" that it was her.
The accused mentioned that in the course of the communication, both "minister" and "Nebojša" were mentioned, alluding to the then Minister of Police, Nebojša Stefanović. Ever since her defense was taken over by lawyer and SNS official Vladimir Đukanović, who is also called "lawyer for special tasks", she is began to lay the blame on Stefanović.
Since the written documentation was reviewed at today's trial, her defense attorney Đukanović spoke up and said that he did not understand why all this was being released, and that "I guess the prosecutor should prove that Diana did not submit something". As he added, "this evidence has already been considered".
In this case, Hrkalović is accused of having ordered the former head of the service for special investigative methods, Dejan Milenkovic, in 2017, not to act immediately on the orders of the judge for the preliminary proceedings of the High Court in Belgrade and the acting prosecutor, who requested that the automatic processing of the mobile phone be delivered to them Veljko Belivuk.
At that time, Belivuk was being investigated for the murder of the karate player Vlastimir Milošević on the tram tracks, in which he was magically transformed from the first suspect into an "associate", only to be acquitted due to lack of evidence.
Hrkalović is also accused of illegally wiretapping the criminal Darko Elez, who is currently awaiting transfer from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbia, where he is supposed to serve his sentence, together with former Novi Sad police chief Milorad Šušnjić.
Gendarme Nenad Vučković Vučko has never been questioned, nor is there any case against him.
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