Serbian lawyer Ivan Ninić has commented on the arrest of former Belgrade police chief Veselin Milić in connection with a murder case in the Senjak district of Serbia, raising serious allegations of political interference and links between state structures and organized crime.
In an interview for the “Probudi” programme on TV Nova, Ninić said that information about the incident at the “27” restaurant in Senjak only became public after it spread on social media, suggesting institutional silence until public pressure forced disclosure.
According to him, had the case not gone viral, there was a strong possibility it would have been quietly suppressed within institutions.
“Veselin Milić had ambitions to become police director, but Zvonko Veselinović applied pressure through Andrej. If information about Aleksandar Neshović Baja and the incident at Restaurant 27 in Senjak had not gone viral on social networks, the question is in which direction everything would have been steered,” Ninić said.
Ninić also recalled that Veselin Milić had long been discussed as a candidate for police director before Dragan Vasiljević, while Sky communications allegedly showed that Zvonko Veselinović exerted direct pressure through Andrej Vučić, conditioning political cooperation and participation in vote mobilization and party activities on whether Milić would be appointed police director.
“That is what criminals discuss in Sky conversations,” Ninić said.
When asked whether he believed there was an attempt to cover up the case, Ninić said the situation strongly reminded him of the death of lawyer Vladimir Cvijan.
