Belgrade (BETAPHOTO/Ana Slovic)
President of the Belgrade Bar Association, Momcilo Bulatovic, said on July 29 that after six years the murder of lawyer Dragoslav Misa Ognjanovic was yet to be solved, because high-ranking representatives of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairsa were probably involved.
In a statement for BETA, Bulatovic recalled that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said three years ago that the Ministry’s senior officials were behind Ognjanovic's murder.
"It is evident that someone in the state leadership does not want an investigation into the murder of lawyer Ognjanovic to be launched. If it is true that people at the helm of the Ministry were involved in the murder, as President Vucic said, then it is in the interest of the state leadership that the crime be forgotten and the killers unidentified. Solving the Ognjanovic murder would probably open some other issues that would not be good for state leaders," Bulatovic said.
The president of the Bar Association explained that President Vucic should have shared his knowledge about the murder with relevant investigative bodies. "Unfortunately, institutions do not function in our country," the lawyer said.
A former state secretary at the interior ministry, Dijana Hrkalovic, is charged by the Office of the Prosecutor for Organized Crime with ordering the deletion of 40 minutes from a secretly recorded conversation between lawyer Ognjanovic and Dragoslav Miloradovic, Luka Bojovic’s closest friend.
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