Democrat Leader Files Criminal Complaint against Serbian Intelligence Chief

Srdjan Milivojevic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

The Democratic Party’s leader, Srdjan Milivojevic, filed on on March 2 a criminal complaint with the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office against the director of the Security Information Agency (BIA), Vladimir Orlic, and other unidentified BIA employees, on suspicion of abuse of office, the party said.

The Democrats explained in a press release that during the repeated vote for the election of members of the High Prosecutorial Council on Feb. 25, “they, contrary to the law, exerted unlawful pressure on prosecutors, in order to make sure that candidates designated by the regime as suitable were elected.”

The Party quoted Milivojevic as saying that “this was a classic coup d’état and an attack on Serbia’s constitutional order.”

“Orlic has routinely and recklessly used the phrase ‘attack on the constitutional order’ over the past 12 months, falsely accusing students and protest participants of committing the criminal offense that he and members of the agency he heads has clearly committed on this occasion,” the Democrat leader said.

Supreme Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac said at a session of the High Prosecutorial Council last week that she had received confirmation that certain prosecutors attended a meeting at the Security Information Agency ahead of the recently repeated elections for the Council, at which they were asked to vote for specific candidates.