Veselin Milic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN ILIC)
Former Belgrade police chief Veselin Milic pleaded not guilty on Nov. 9 at the beginning of his trial on charges related to a murder at the “27” restaurant in the capital's Senjak neighborhood.
Judge Sladjana Radojicic said Milic would have an opportunity to present his defense at the next hearing, scheduled for Dec. 17.
Prosecutors have charged Milic with failing to report a murder at the restaurant last May, and with falsifying an official police report.
Defense attorney Nemanja Vasiljevic said the case against his client had been initiated following a criminal complaint filed by the recently arrested chief of the Criminal Police Directorate, Marko Kricak, which he said was unsupported by facts.
"My client, Milic, is a victim of Kricak's malicious and unlawful conduct, for which we have filed a criminal complaint against him. He gathered evidence by torturing the restaurant owner and concealing facts," Vasiljevic said.
Kricak was arrested on prosecutors' orders several days before the trial began, after it emerged that he had known Milic had left the Senjak restaurant before the murder, contrary to the allegations in the police complaint he had filed.
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