The Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade announced that it has partially dismissed the criminal charges against the former head of the Police Department of the City of Belgrade, Veselin Milic, that is, that he will not be prosecuted for helping to kill the mobster Aleksandar Neškovic-Baja. they called Serbian media.
However, the Prosecutor’s Office said that in connection with the part of the criminal complaint that accuses Milić of failure to report a crime and a perpetrator, it continues to collect evidence, according to the statement.
Milic is a former head of the Belgrade police, as well as an adviser to the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, and held other high positions in the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The case of the murder of the mobster Baja, whose body was found in a barrel and identified by DNA analysishorrified the public
During the investigation of the murder, committed on May 12 in a restaurant in Belgrade, the prosecutors determined that there is no evidence indicating that the defendant committed the crime of Assisting.
“Based on the surveillance cameras from the address of the residence of the victim A.N. and the suspect Veselin M., as well as the cameras from the restaurant “Cafe Dream”, then based on the base stations and the review of the phones of the persons providing the suspect and the base stations of the suspect, as well as the analysis of the statements of the examined witnesses, the defense of the suspect and other evidence, it is indisputably and unequivocally established that he was not, nor he could have been at the scene, i.e. at the “27” restaurant, when, as is suspected, the crime of murder and other crimes was committed, i.e. that the suspect did not help the other defendants in this procedure to remove the traces of their execution by concealing the traces of those crimes, according to the press release.
However, the Prosecutor’s Office says that there is still a well-founded suspicion that Milic knew about the murder on official duty, but despite that he did not report it.
“From the collected evidence, there are grounds for doubting that on the night between May 12 and 13, Veselin M. was notified by phone by the owner of the restaurant suspected by NL of an event in the restaurant where other guests were at that time, and that after learning about the committed crimes for which he was prosecuted ex officio, he did not report them to the competent authorities, and he was obliged to do so,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
