BELIVUK: Gendarme Vučković revealed that a foreign embassy was behind the attempted terrorism on October 16, 2016!
Marija Žižić Draško Đuranović
Nenad Vučković Vučko, an officer of the Serbian Gendarmerie, offered at the beginning of 2016 to a criminal group led by Veljko Belivuk to take an active part in an operation to provoke unrest in Montenegro on election day, October 16, 2016, and also to attempt the kidnapping of the then-President Milo Đukanović.
The Serbian gendarme, in a conversation with the leaders of the organized criminal group Aleksandar Stanković, known as “Sale Dumb,” and Veljko Belivuk, codenamed “Velja Trouble,” emphasized that behind the plan to create a state of emergency in Montenegro - stood a foreign embassy.
It was not specified which embassy, but given that the suspected and initially convicted for the attempted terrorism were Russian citizens and GRU agents Vladimir Popov and Eduard Shishmakov - it is not difficult to conclude which foreign embassy Belivuk had in mind.
Popov and Shishmakov were once sentenced to prison terms, along with Andrija Mandić, Milan Knežević, and 12 other Serbian citizens, for conspiracy and attempted terrorism on election day in 2016. Later, the Appeal Court overturned that verdict, and in the retrial, the High Court panel, chaired by Zoran Radović, acquitted all defendants of participating in the planning of unrest in Montenegro.
HELLISH PLAN FOR OCTOBER 16, 2016
At a hearing in Belgrade on February 10, 2022, conducted at the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime by then-Chief Special Prosecutor, Milivoje Katnić, one of the leaders of the organized criminal group provided a detailed description of the plan proposed to him by Gendarme Vučković.
We were supposed to wait armed for instructions on when to invade the Parliament, or, if the location of Milo Đukanović is known, to deprive him of liberty, that is, to kidnap him and wait for further instructions. Although Nenad Vučković Vučko guaranteed us that we had nothing to fear – „because it’s a done deal, all we have to do is go there and pick up the cream (kajmak), as
everything is in the interest of the state“ - I refused and convinced Aleksandar Stanković to give up on everything. Behind it all stood a foreign embassy - Belivuk said at the hearing held on February 10, 2022, at the request of Chief Special Prosecutor, Milivoje Katnić.
VUČIĆ’S SPECIAL TEAM
At the hearing, Belivuk, without hesitation, stated that since 2011 he had been a member of Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party, and that „together with Aleksandar Stanković, I led a group that served the needs of the state.“
In his statement to Milivoje Katnić, which Television E and Portal ETV had insight, Belivuk said that Gendarme Vučković told Stanković that the operation in Montenegro was, we quote, a “done deal and that the crew would gain a lot of credit in the eyes of certain people.” The Serbian gendarme pointed out that “the worst thing that could happen would be for everything to fall through and for them to be arrested, but in that case, they should remain silent in their defense, and within a few months they would all be released and return to Belgrade.”
Belivuk stated that three days before the parliamentary elections in Belgrade, his best friend, Stanković, was killed, and because of that, he was no longer interested in what was happening in Montenegro.
At the same time, Belivuk’s criminal associate Miljković claimed that their smooth departure from Serbia to Montenegro was enabled directly by Aleksandar Vulin and police officer Svetozar Vujačić, who is also a close relative of Miljković.
-Whether it was, as we said, by direct order of Aleksandar Vulin and Svetozar Vujačić, my grandfather, I would like to see, because they call me a liar for everything, yet everything I say eventually turns out to be true, but fine - Miljković said.
The testimonies of Belivuk and Miljković from 2022 became known to the public for the first time at a recent hearing during the defense of Milivoje Katnić. For the first time, the role of Serbian Gendarmerie officer and former Serbian Army soldier Nenad Vučković Vučko was also revealed in detail.
„VUČKO’S PATH“
According to investigative journalists from KRIK, a high-ranking member of the Gendarmerie, Nenad Vučković Vučko, was the leader of the criminal-hooligan group „Janjičari“, supporters of the football club „Partizan.“
Although surrounded by criminals suspected of numerous serious crimes, no indictment was ever brought against Vučković, nor was he questioned for crimes for which he should have been on the prosecutor’s list. In particular, as KRIK writes, the destruction of two phones belonging to Aleksandar Stanković immediately after Stanković was killed in a mafia ambush.
“When I thought we were the most powerful, that’s when we had already fallen. You have all the information, everything possible, the whole police in your hands, but you’re weakest - the weakest when you think you’re the strongest…”
This was how, in mid-December 2018, a member of the elite police unit Gendarmerie addressed gathered associates. Who were not gendarmes - but criminals who provided security for the famous Belgrade nightclub „Freestyler“, whose hidden owner was in fact Vučković. The audio recording of the conversation with the „security staff“ was published by Serbian outlet KRIK.
Despite all this, numerous indirect evidences and even a direct admission that he removed from the investigation and destroyed two mobile phones belonging to the murdered Aleksandar Stanković - Gendarme Vučković was never prosecuted.
Nor is he under any investigation today.
Even though in 2017 the Military Trade Union reported two officers on suspicion that they had allowed Nenad Vučković, Veljko Belivuk, and the Secretary General of the Government of Serbia, Novak Nedić, to jointly use the shooting range barracks in Pančevo - the complaint was dismissed. Vučković’s name also appeared in a criminal complaint regarding the demolition of the café „Hollywood“, owned by fan group member „Alkatraz“ of Aleksandar Vavić, but he was never questioned.
KATNIĆ’S EXPRESS DISMISSAL…
Just as the Serbian prosecution did not react to the activities of Gendarme Vučković, so too did Montenegro’s judiciary fail to respond to the testimonies of Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković, who spoke of the links between Serbian security forces and criminals in the attempted terrorism of 2016.
But the parliamentary majority reacted very quickly, led by Andrija Mandić. Thanks to their majority in the Prosecutorial Council – they secured the immediate dismissal of Milivoje Katnić from the position of Chief Special Prosecutor. And just seven days after Veljko Belivuk pointed the finger at the Belgrade authorities, who, together with Russian intelligence, planned actions in Montenegro.
Moreover, Katnić was dismissed, as it turned out, thanks to - false, fabricated documentation from the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund (PIO Fund).
The first decision of the PIO Fund, dated August 25, 2021, was annulled on October 4 of the same year by the Ministry of Finance and Social Welfare, headed by Milojko Spajić. About fifty days after that annulment, the PIO Fund again, on November 23, 2021, determined pension record of Milivoje Katnić, clearly at the political request of people from the parliamentary majority.
...AND THE SILENCE OF THE NEW SPECIAL PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE
In the meantime, the Special Prosecutor’s Office, headed by Vladimir Novović, did not address the testimonies of Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković but instead - focused on filing an indictment against former Chief Special Prosecutor, Milivoje Katnić.
The acting special prosecutor, Miloš Šoškić, who is prosecuting Zoran Lazović, Milivoje Katnić, and Saša Čađenović for alleged criminal association with the Kavački clan, was not interested too much in information that - did not support his case.
Because even police and legal experts were left puzzled: how could Lazović, Katnić, and Čađenović be indicted as members of the clan they pursued for years by all means, prosecuting more than a dozen Kavački group members who were sentenced to a combined total of over 80 years in prison?
Instead of an official state response - an official silence from the Special Prosecutor’s Office on evidence that the arrival of Belivuk and Miljković in Montenegro was enabled by Serbian security structures. And even more drastic discovery: silence that Šoškić - and thus the Special Prosecutor’s Office - completely ignored testimonies indicating that there was a plan for Serbian criminals to take part in the attempted terrorism in Montenegro in October 2016?!
No one, it seems, wanted to investigate whether Gendarme Vučković was that powerful, so audacious, to act on his own. If Aleksandar Vulin was directly involved in lifting the informal ban on Belivuk and Miljković, is it possible that all of this happened without the knowledge of the main boss - Aleksandar Vučić?
The Montenegrin Special State Prosecutor’s Office, it looks like, did not concern itself with such “trifles.” It is hard to believe this was merely a prosecutorial oversight, it looks much more like an organized cover-up of the truth. As new facts emerge, it is harder and harder to cover up.
The only question is when, and who, will react to the new evidence - the Chief Special Prosecutor by reviewing proceedings handled by his deputy Miloš Šoškić, or will it wait for the Prosecutorial Council?
