BELGRADE, June 29 (Hina) - Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica on Friday wrote to Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and other Serbian government officials that he had never ordered to the Yugoslav Army to raid into the Serbian
government's communications office or any other institution.
BELGRADE, June 29 (Hina) - Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica on
Friday wrote to Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and other Serbian
government officials that he had never ordered to the Yugoslav Army
to raid into the Serbian government's communications office or any
other institution. #L#
Kostunica claims that his office was wiretapped and that devices
for the tapping were in the Serbian ministry for power industry.
The scandal about alleged orders for the raid broke out when
Kostunica last Monday dismissed the Yugoslav army's chief-of-
staff, General Nebojska Pavkovic. Pavkovic said his dismissal was
Kostunica's revenge after he had refused to obey the Yugoslav
President's order for the raid last summer.
A former head of the army's morale department, Milan Simic, who was
fired in July last year, on Friday confirmed the statements of the
sacked army chief.
Earlier, a former head of the army's security department, General
Milan Djakovic, was quoted by the Beta news agency as saying that in
the night between 7 and 8 June 2001 Kostunica's aides had asked him
to raid the said office, but he had refused it, explaining that "the
army is not responsible for that kind of intervention."
The Yugoslav assembly, which will be in session as of July 1, should
set up a commission of enquiry to probe General Pavkovic's
allegations.
Yugoslav Interior Minister Zoran Zivkovic said that if it was
proved that generals' allegations were true "this will be the start
of a process of replacement and punishment of people who worked it
(abused their office)."
There are also sanctions in the case if it is established that the
stories are groundless, Zivkovic said.
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