Opposition Doubts Prosecution Would Investigate Vulin

Aleksandar Vulin (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

The opposition members of the Serbian parliament’s Committee for the Judiciary, State and Local Administration assessed on July 12 that the authorities were behaving scandalously by belittling and neglecting the decision of the U.S. Department of Treasury to sanction the director of Serbia’s Security and Information Agency, Aleksandar Vulin.

The U.S. finance ministry has blacklisted Vulin for involvement in trans-national organized crime, illegal operations with narcotics and abuse of public office.

Speaking at a news conference in the parliament building, the members of the Committee requested, among other things, the holding of an urgent session of the government to dismiss Vulin, and the dismissal of their Committee’s president, Vladimir Djukanovic. The Committee’s vice-president from the Green-Left caucus, Jelena Jerinic, said that he opposition, as well as a large number of citizens, were concerned because they did not believe the Serbian judiciary could deal with this problem.

A member of the Committee for the Judiciary, Democratic Party MP Miodrag Gavrilovic, assessed that he Serbian Progressive Party was directly influencing the High Judicial Council, because of which he requested the resignation of Committee president Djukanovic. A member of the Committee from the We Must-Together caucus, Danijela Nestorovic, stated that the Serbian government had to urgently schedule a session at which it would suspend Vulin.