Criminologist: Prosecutor's Office Should Launch Investigation into Wiretapping of the President

Aleksandar Vucic

Criminologist Dobrivoje Radovanovic said on Jan. 5 that the prosecutor's office should launch an investigation to determine whether someone, and who, had wiretapped Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

In an interview with BETA, Radovanovic said that the prosecutor's office had been obliged to launch an investigation immediately after Vucic's claim that he had been wiretapped for a year and a half. "If the prosecutor's office does not open an investigation, the impression will remain that it was a marketing stunt or a game of secret services in the state, which live off such things and which pay the laws no mind," said Radovanovic.

He went on to say that he initially took Vucic's statement on wiretapping as "pretty ridiculous," but that later some of his former students who occupied senior positions in security services had assured him that wiretapping had actually happened.