Media: Second member of criminal group claims meeting Serbia’s Vucic, Int Min

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Marko Miljkovic, currently in custody suspected of murders and drug trafficking as a member of the recently arrested criminal group led by Veljko Belivuk, claimed he had met Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin and President Aleksandar Vucic, according to a part of his testimony to which NewsMax Adria had access to.

In the transcript published on Saturday night, he, same as Belivuk in his statement published by the Network for Investigation of Crime and Corruption (KRIK) earlier,  denied all the crimes he was suspected of and said he met Vulin through his grandfather Svetozar Vujacic, an advisor to the minister.

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Miljkovic said they met in 2019 in the nightclub „Gotik“ in Belgrade.

He denied meeting former Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic. Still, He said he met Vucic in an apartment in the Belgrade Zvezdara district, where Belivuk also told the police he met the President.

„Vucic then told me that I could cooperate with Aleksandar Vulin because he is his right-hand man. I first took Vulin to two houses on the left bank of the Danube River. He did not want them mainly because I am from that area and someone could connect us,“ Miljkovic said, according to the transcript.

He then claimed that „Vulin suggested that I find them a hidden, safe location outside Belgrade for a certain period,“ he claimed.

Miljkovic added he later took Vulin to a location in a Belgarde suburban district of  Ritopek, which Vulin was „delighted with.“

In his testimony, he also said he last saw Vulin in the summer of 2020, when the Minister allegedly asked him to blackmail the High Court President Aleksandar Stepanovic with a video that was to be made by starlet Tijana Maksimovic, the then finacée of Belivuk’s security chief.

Commenting on those claims, Vulin said they sounded as the suspects had been receiving confidential information while in custody.

„That clan has existed for too long, and now they are in prison and will stay there for the rest of their lives. We know their goal is to mire the (Interior Ministry) MUP and all officers working on the case,“ Vulin said.

Vucic told a TV on Saturday that he had never „heard of or seen“ Belivuk or Miljkovic and that he was ready to take a polygraph test.