BELGRADE, June 14 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic left the country due to alleged "constant telephone threats" that he would be executed, Lilic's legal representative Svetozar Vujacic told Belgrade's daily "Politika
Ekspres" Friday. Vujacic did not say where did Lilic go, but stressed the former President was forced to leave because he felt threatened and the police refused to issue him a gun permit. Linic was Yugoslavia's President between 1993 and 1997, namely after Dobrica Cesaric and before Slobodan Milosevic. After Milosevic became the President, he appointed Lilic as his advisor for international economic relations. It was claimed that Lilic was in charge of special contacts of Belgrade, Baghdad and Tripoli and in this context responsible for activities regarding oil and weapons and construction works on the account of Yugoslav companies. The then Serbian opposition and the current authorities, acc
BELGRADE, June 14 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic
left the country due to alleged "constant telephone threats" that
he would be executed, Lilic's legal representative Svetozar
Vujacic told Belgrade's daily "Politika Ekspres" Friday.
Vujacic did not say where did Lilic go, but stressed the former
President was forced to leave because he felt threatened and the
police refused to issue him a gun permit.
Linic was Yugoslavia's President between 1993 and 1997, namely
after Dobrica Cesaric and before Slobodan Milosevic. After
Milosevic became the President, he appointed Lilic as his advisor
for international economic relations.
It was claimed that Lilic was in charge of special contacts of
Belgrade, Baghdad and Tripoli and in this context responsible for
activities regarding oil and weapons and construction works on the
account of Yugoslav companies.
The then Serbian opposition and the current authorities, accused
Lilic of establishing his own companies in Libya and embezzlement.
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