BELGRADE, March 17 (Hina) - Colonel Miodrag Sekulic "had been giving confidential documents important to the country's defense without authorisation to (Serbian vice premier) Miodrag Perisic who had been forwarding them to a foreign
citizen," Belgrade newspapers report on Sunday quoting the Yugoslav Army headquarters. Even though the Yugoslav Army chief-of-staff, Nebojsa Pavkovic, on Friday said he was not informed about the arrest operation of Momcilo Perisic, the Headquarters issued a statement on Saturday which said the military security bodies received data that Sekulic had given the documents to Perisic who further on gave some of them to "a foreign citizen." Perisic, who was arrested along with three other people, including American diplomat, was released on Saturday. The statement read that "Yugoslav security bodies cut this illegal activity on March 14 at 7:35PM and have evidence for a reas
BELGRADE, March 17 (Hina) - Colonel Miodrag Sekulic "had been
giving confidential documents important to the country's defense
without authorisation to (Serbian vice premier) Miodrag Perisic
who had been forwarding them to a foreign citizen," Belgrade
newspapers report on Sunday quoting the Yugoslav Army
headquarters.
Even though the Yugoslav Army chief-of-staff, Nebojsa Pavkovic, on
Friday said he was not informed about the arrest operation of
Momcilo Perisic, the Headquarters issued a statement on Saturday
which said the military security bodies received data that Sekulic
had given the documents to Perisic who further on gave some of them
to "a foreign citizen." Perisic, who was arrested along with three
other people, including American diplomat, was released on
Saturday.
The statement read that "Yugoslav security bodies cut this illegal
activity on March 14 at 7:35PM and have evidence for a reasonable
doubt that this was a criminal act of spionage." The statement
concluded that "everything was done in compliance with the law."
Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic said there were "omissions in a
process (of arrest) for which somebody must answer", while Yugoslav
President Vojislav Kostunica said "there were no omissions, and
everything was done lawfully."
Yugoslav interior Minister Zoran Zivkovic said charges would be
filed on Monday against those who exceeded authorities by bringing
in people with envoy's and diplomatic immunity "which caused harm
to country's reputation."
Belgrade radio B-92 quoted estimates by military analysts who warn
that "if Vojislav Kostunica's and Nebojsa Pavkovic's claims that
they were not informed on activities of military security service
are seriously accepted, it is than logical to ask who indeed
controls the work of this service."
(hina) np