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SCANDAL CAUSED BY MURDER OF FORMER SERBIAN OFFICIAL FLARES UP

BELGRADE, Aug 14 (Hina) - The scandal caused by the murder of a former senior official of Serbia's secret police which has been rocking the Serbian political scene for days and threatening to seriously destabilise the ruling DOS coalition, flared up on Tuesday following new claims that "a parallel secret service" was being formed at the office of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica. Today's issue of the Belgrade weekly Nedeljni Telegraf claims that Kostunica was trying to establish a parallel state security service with the aim of strengthening his own position in Serbia as well as to appoint the murdered former secret service official, Momir Gavrilovic, head of the secret service. The weekly carries an interview with Gavrilovic's wife who has confirmed that her husband visited the office of the Yugoslav president on several occasions and met the President in person once. She has also confirmed that her
BELGRADE, Aug 14 (Hina) - The scandal caused by the murder of a former senior official of Serbia's secret police which has been rocking the Serbian political scene for days and threatening to seriously destabilise the ruling DOS coalition, flared up on Tuesday following new claims that "a parallel secret service" was being formed at the office of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica. Today's issue of the Belgrade weekly Nedeljni Telegraf claims that Kostunica was trying to establish a parallel state security service with the aim of strengthening his own position in Serbia as well as to appoint the murdered former secret service official, Momir Gavrilovic, head of the secret service. The weekly carries an interview with Gavrilovic's wife who has confirmed that her husband visited the office of the Yugoslav president on several occasions and met the President in person once. She has also confirmed that her husband told her the meeting tackled exclusively personnel issues in the state security service. Gavrilovic was killed on August 3, only a couple of hours after he had a long meeting with Kostunica's associates at the Yugoslav president's office. The Belgrade paper Blic, which quoted anonymous sources from Kostunica's office, was the first to publish the news about Gavrilovic's visit to Kostunica's office. Those sources also told the paper that Gavrilovic had allegedly handed to the office documents on connections between some officials in the incumbent authorities and organised crime circles. The identity of the sources and the names of those Gavrilovic allegedly incriminated were not published. Due to public pressure, Yugoslav President Kostunica addressed the public via television last week, confirming Gavrilovic had visited his office and talked to his associates "complaining about the high level of crime in society." Based on this statement, the prosecution in Belgrade requested the office of the Yugoslav president to submit said documents in order to launch an investigation. However, the office did not submit the documents incriminating individuals from the current authorities but forwarded the prosecution written statements by the officials at Kostunica's office who spoke with Gavrilovic, as well as a transcript of the talks. Gavrilovic's wife has confirmed that her husband made no mention at all about the alleged corruption of senior state officials. She reiterated that her husband discussed exclusively his return to the service and his request that he be appointed head rather than deputy head of the state security. Citing an anonymous coalition official, Nedeljni Telegraf says that "the head of Kostunica's office, Ljiljana Nedeljkovic, and advisor Gradimir Nalic, who cannot stand the fact that he was not appointed Serbia's Interior Minister, participated in disseminating false information." The paper quotes the same source as saying Kostunica did not know the information about Gavrilovic's visit to his office would leak out and that after an unexpectedly strong reaction of the Serbian government, Nedeljkovic called him saying he should cut short his holiday and address the public." For the first time since the scandal broke out, Serbian Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic addressed the public on Tuesday saying the police were already investigating the murder but "will not participate in resolving political disputes caused by some other people, who now cannot deal with their own political intrigues." Mihajlovic also accused "certain politicians" of being engaged in the establishment of parallel centres of power. He refused to comment on the claims of Nedeljni Telegraf and called on reporters to engage in "investigative journalism and establish who is trying to create parallel centres of power." (hina) rml

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