Sicilian

As if the article in the last issue of "Vremena" shook the police and the prosecutor's office in their action against the group of Veljko Belivuk, labeled as one of the most monstrous criminals so far. After the questioning of Aleksandar Kajmaković and the detailed presentation of his statement to the police in the tabloids, Slaviša Kokeza, the president of the Football Association of Serbia and an entrepreneur, and Dijana Hrkalović, a former progressive leader in the security sector, were invited to an informative interview.

If the latter hearing was somehow expected and previously announced in the press and on TV stations under Vučić's control, Kokeza's four-hour interrogation at the SBPOK is a new moment and, in a way, something extremely unexpected. This football player and entrepreneur in the field of trade in white goods and software was considered a "kin by birth", an intimate friend of Aleksandar Vučić from the period when the latter was dreaming of his radical dreams, and Kokeza was a foreign exchange seller, restaurateur and local bookmaker in New Belgrade.

The very news that he refused the polygraph during the hearing in the investigation initiated by the arrest of Belivuk and his team was assessed by the president of Serbia and the Serbian Progressive Party as a "sad event". It is completely unclear to him because "he didn't even step on him and all of them," as he said visibly upset at the press conference on Sunday, February 28 at the "Nikola Tesla" Airport in Belgrade, sometime before midnight.

That case from the investigation into the affairs of the organized criminal group of Veljko Belivuk was interpreted in two ways in the following days: some believe that it is a sign of the seriousness of the action and Vučić's words that there are no protected persons, and others, quite the opposite, that it is an indicator of mockery of the investigation and that Kokeza is consciously sacrificing himself. for its "creator". Whatever the motive is, it is not good for either Vučić or Kokeza: even though Vučić has all the manipulative methods in the public space to show how he was the victim of a conspiracy in which one of his closest collaborators also participated, if it turns out that he Kokeza criminal, what is the one who made it? Again, if Kokeza does not defend himself, he would have to be immediately removed from the head of the Football Association of Serbia, if not something more than that.

By the way, the "Kokez case" also serves to deal with the president of the High Court in Belgrade, Aleksandar Stepanović; he is now being "set up" to have been a kind of supporter of Kokeza and Dijana Hrkalović, that is, Belivuk, who, in the end, wanted to kill the president of Serbia and take over power in Serbia - at least that's what the regime's security "experts" claim.

WHAT IS KOKEZINA'S SIN?

At one time, Kokeza had a company called "Happy Millionaire", which, seen from today's perspective, sounds like the wit of a man who made his way through life on the street as he knew how. For someone who ten years ago could only count on winnings at football betting shops and the success of a restaurant in New Belgrade, Kokeza has been a Happy Millionaire for the last decade. He went from an "ordinary guy" to the boxes of the biggest stadiums in the world, met big world stars in a few years at the head of FSS and met important people, which he probably didn't even dream of when he wrote his book My path to success. He also became a bon vivant, surrounded by starlets, owner of expensive cars, lover of the best food and drinks.

At the same time, due to his incompetence and dubious business he was involved in in his life, he was a disgrace to Serbian football. About how it has functioned since 2015, when Kokeza took over, it is probably necessary to conduct a separate investigation. And all of that goes together with Vučić: never by himself, never on his own and never because of his knowledge, skills or connections in the world at any level.

Through the purchase and transformation of the companies Eurosalon and Pro inter, Kokeza got rich because due to his "good relations" with Vučić, he had access to jobs and public money that were not available to others. When today it is said: "Vučić made him" (Dragan J. Vučićević on Pink), then only part of the millions that Kokeza earned from his friendship with Vučić is omitted. Today, the president of Serbia himself admits that he "made everything possible" for him, all because they were partners, which is another reason for those who say that it's all a bad show to smear the public's eyes.

Kokeza was allegedly galvanized by Aleksandar Kajmaković aka Aca Bosanac, a colorful person known in the city as the manager of many "elite" clubs and restaurants, mostly those owned by Predrag Ranković aka Peconi, whom nobody mentions these days. So, if we believe what is "leaking from the investigation", we have a "drugger" (Acu Bosanca) who told the police that Kokeza brought Belivuk and his friends to his throat and everything somehow revolves around those "second category" characters. Namely, what Aca Bosanac was to Peconi, Kokeza was to Vučić. Now, maybe it really turns out that the "mice" took over the circuit while the big guys had other things to do, but until this is actually proven, it remains somewhat doubtful that neither Pecconi nor Vučić took an interest in what their subordinates were doing earlier.

It may seem that the qualifications are too strong and that Kokeza is independent in what he does. However, anyone who has followed how the government around Vučić works, can hardly believe that he broke away in any way because only two people have done it so far - entertainment managers Saša Mirković and Zoran Bašanović. However, those two can say that Vučić owes them something because they also helped him gain power and authority.

Cokeza is not "that level". All this time, he behaved slyly, only indirectly going public through his companies and by managing Serbian football, which he jumped into from the lower-ranking Brodarac. If Bašanović took Vučić to expensive restaurants and taught him what and how to eat, what and how to drink, Vučić did the same with Kokez, Dr. Nebojša Stefanović and others who are now known as conspirators who wanted to liquidate him and seize power .

The investigation led - Aca Bosanac allegedly testified - to Kokeza's "dark side", so he also went to the SBPOK and gave a statement on various circumstances. His statement was interpreted the same evening by Aleksandar Vulin, the Minister of the Interior, saying on TV Pink that Kokeza lied about everything except one thing. And that is that the president of the High Court in Belgrade, Aleksandar Stepanović, taught him how to avoid the polygraph, so he did not agree to the polygraph test.

As it was heard, the campaign started in two directions: one is old and well-known and concerns the use of the polygraph for "revealing the truth", which Vučić established long ago as the only principle, and the other direction is even older and concerns the radical tendency to world conspiracies.

Therefore, both Vučić and "his" - here they are under allegations because who knows who will be arrested tomorrow and tell us that he was never close to them - say the following: Kokeza, under the influence of Stepanović, refused the polygraph examination, from which the conclusion follows that he is a liar and that he is hiding something. Furthermore, Stepanović is connected to foreign embassies and administrations of foreign powers, which means that he is an instrument in the hands of foreign services that want to destroy Vučić. Thus, according to this theory, all paths of Belivuk's investigation lead to the CIA or MI-6, and it is known that they are constantly brokering and not allowing Serbia to progress.

WHO CAN BELIEVE THAT?

The day after Kokeza, Dijana Hrkalović was questioned at SBPOK; she is being dragged across the tabloids the way she did it to her colleagues and opponents when she was in power. The most mysterious woman of the Serbian police is now being transformed by a juicy and thorough media treatment into the most monstrous member and conspirator of the Veljko Belivuk group.

Not only the tabloid "Objektiv" writes about her and her condition, under the editorial staff of Dulet Vukajlović, the man who last interviewed her in the fall of 2020, which was discussed more in previous issues of "Vremena". The bringing of Dijana Hrkalović to the police was almost broadcast live, so the public found out not only how she dressed, but also what she said to her former colleagues. Apparently, she didn't say anything, answering everything with "I don't know" or "I don't remember", which sounds like a smart approach.

Even Dijana Hrkalović did not take a polygraph, which says everything in the progressive world. But not because she didn't want to, but because she was so "medicated" that such an examination was not possible. And since she was considered a big fan of the polygraph, she probably knows very well how it is possible to "not be Kokez" and refuse the polygraph in a "legal" way. That is why the real question - when it is seen that the most is expected from the statements - is what the police have in terms of material evidence or is it all down to an attempt to provide confessions with confirmation of the assumptions about the committed criminal acts.

Vučić himself talked more about the material evidence in an anthology show on TV Prva on February 27. There, Vučić explained that the day before the session of the National Security Council was canceled because something had to be "formally determined legally".

He announced that such shocking and gruesome videos will be broadcast on Thursday, March 4, so that people can see what kind of criminals they are. Until now, only members of the Islamic State have broadcast videos of beheadings, and the public in Serbia expects Vučić and the "media" to give up such video content. And Vučić plans to "let it go" in order to convince the public that he was attacked by a group that has no sense or consideration whatsoever.

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SOMEONE IS WATCHING GOMORRAH, NOTHING KUMA

Italian series Gomorrah, based on the motifs of the book of the same name by Robert Saviano, serves as a pattern of behavior for many criminals in the world who believe that this is how the mafia behaves. This local, Serbian team did not escape from that either, so it is often said that they picked up various "tips" from the "Italians" - be it the organization of the group, or the way of torturing or killing opponents. In addition, they could see and learn how to live in the community and what you need to do about your image so that people don't accidentally think you're some bad guy or, God forbid, a criminal.

Unlike them, some other powerful people in Serbia seemed to be watching Kuma and learned from him how to deal with their opponents or how to discipline their subordinates. Although a romanticized story about the mafia from New York, the saga of the Corleone family is often understood as a good and correct way of managing and treating family and friends.

In this context, we need to understand the role of Dr. Nebojsa Stefanović, who for the time being is "wisely silent, thinking". Although he has also been linked to Belivuk, although his closest associate has been labeled as almost part of the mafia, he keeps aloof, going to arms fairs and hanging out with military attachés of various countries. Meetings with foreign ambassadors were one of the rare activities of this Minister of Defense in recent months.

The Stefanović mystery may be solved quickly, and perhaps he will be left to cook on a low fire like a wedding cabbage. The investigation that is currently being conducted should also show what happened in the Customs Administration, which was led by a man connected to Nebojša Stefanović and who was replaced by Branko Radujko, an old member of the DS and the man who, according to Aleksandar Vučić, destroyed Telekom Srbija.

In this underground war in the SNS, or if we use the chess vocabulary - the Sicilians - the arrangement of the pieces is followed breathlessly. The most interesting thing in all of this is that Vučić primarily relies on cadres who defected from the Democratic Party.

A Western diplomat in Belgrade commented on it with the following words: "When they quarreled in the DS, they created new parties, when they fought in the SNS, they created new mafias."