Sveçla: A former member of the Serbian MUP has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Vukashinović!

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Sveçla: A former member of the Serbian MUP has been arrested in
Xhelal Sveçla

Kosovo's acting Minister of Internal Affairs,  Xhelal Sveçla , said that a former member of the Serbian MUP has been arrested in connection with the " kidnapping of Kosovo citizen Milan Vukashinović ."

According to Sveçla, the arrested VM was integrated into the Kosovo Police, based on the 2013 Brussels agreement, but later resigned.

According to him, he was arrested during an operation by the Police and the Kosovo Intelligence Agency in Leshak.

"There are well-founded suspicions that the arrested person has continuously collaborated with and supported the security structures of Serbia, including the kidnapping of Milan Vukashinović, who was seriously injured during the kidnapping and is currently being treated in a hospital in Serbia," Svečla wrote on Facebook.

According to Kosovo authorities, Vukashinović was allegedly kidnapped inside Kosovo territory on November 1.

"In Kosovo, no one will be able to escape justice. Our professional institutions have the capacity to address every threat and solve every crime," Sveçla wrote.

He said that it is suspected that VM has been in contact with Serbian intelligence structures and the army, "has prepared young Serbs for training in cooperation with members of the Serbian army, and at least was aware of the preparations for the terrorist attack in Banjska."

Kosovo authorities had previously called on the international community to put pressure on Belgrade following the alleged wounding and kidnapping of Vukashinovic by the Serbian Gendarmerie.

It is suspected that Vukashinović was injured and then kidnapped on November 1 in the village of Jellakce near Leposavic, before being taken to the Prokuplje hospital, and later to the Niš Clinical Center.

Serbia has not reacted to this case. Vukašinović's family, through lawyer Ivan Ninić, have filed a lawsuit with the High Public Prosecutor's Office in Prokuplje.

Ninic said that since the Serbian state has been silent, the lawsuit has been filed against unknown persons, members of the Serbian Army, or the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, or Milan Radoicic, former deputy leader of the Serbian List, who had claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on the Kosovo Police in Banjska, Zvecan in 2023.

Vukashinović was employed by the Kosovo Insurance Bureau at the border crossing in Jarinje, in northern Kosovo.

After authorities made Vukashinović's case public, Kosovo's acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, stated that he was attacked because he "is an opponent of the policies and regime of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić."

Radio Free Europe, using forensic facial identification tools, has confirmed that Vukashinović is the same person who on June 28 of this year had spoken publicly about the pressures he had faced, in an interview with journalist and former Serbian MP Nemanja Šarović, for the Serbian television station KTV.

Doubts, silence and mystery surrounding the Vukashinović case

During that interview, he stated that Serbs were forced to leave Kosovo institutions in November 2022 under pressure from the Serbian List, and that he himself had been a victim of pressure, adding that he did not feel safe traveling to Serbia because he had refused to resign.

"They have slandered me about many things, they have linked me to Albanians, I am not sure about traveling to Serbia. I am here in Kosovo, I bypass Serbia," he said./REL


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