Aleksandar Vulin ((BETAPHOTO/MINISTRY OF INTERIOR)
Fake threats claiming that bombs had been planted in four shopping malls in Serbia were sent via email service ProtonMail, based in Switzerland, and were made from the territory of one European country and Ukraine, according to a statement from the Serbian Interior Ministry in the evening on April 18.
The same address was used to email bomb threats to e-mail addresses of shopping malls in Belgrade and Nis, the statement said, adding that the bomb squad established that the threats were false.
The Interior Ministry also said that Switzerland-based email service ProtonMail had been used several times for emailing bomb threats to Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport and Serbian flag carrier Air Serbia, adding that in cooperation with the Prosecutor’s Office for Cybercrime, the police had been collecting information about these threats.
The Serbian Interior Ministry will officially seek assistance through international operational police cooperation in obtaining information about the ordering party, organizers and executors of this criminal offense, it is said in the statement.
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