4 minutes agoIvanovic's words about Radojichi before he died: A Debt collector
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The murdered Serbian politician Oliver Ivanovic called Milan Radocicin a debt collector and truck owner close to the ruling party in Serbia as a key figure in the system of intimidation of power in northern Kosovo. In his latest interview for BIRN in October, Oliver Ivanovic, the Serbian politician [...]
In his latest interview for BIRN in October, Oliver Ivanovic, Kosovo Serb politician killed in January, called Milan Radojici a key and powerful figure in Serb-run northern Kosovo.
He asked BIRN to keep that part of the interview out of the record because he was afraid of possible revenge.
In the one-in-one interview, in audio and recorded notes, Ivanovic confirmed that power in northern Kosovo did not keep the elected institutions, but that “informal power centres” ) and called Radoicicin connected to this informal power system.
The power centre is not in the municipality building because the municipality building belongs to this other informal power centre”, Ivanovic said.
He then added: “President [Serbian] Aleksandar Vucic cited Milan Radociqi, who really worries me; it worries me deeply that he takes it as an example of a person fighting for the protection of Serbs in Kosovo “.
Ivanovic referred to Vuciqi's words at a press conference held in September, when he called Radociqi as one of the five men he thanked for Serbia's “defence in Kosovo”.
Despite urging BIRN '%s' not to publish his words about informal power centres, Ivanovic told BIRN journalist to remember Radojciqi's name.
“No, no, no, leave it there, remember it, you'll have that name there,” said Ivanovic, when the journalist started erasing Radoic's name from the notes.
Radoic, who has been the focus of attention in recent months, has close ties with political elites in Kosovo and Serbia, including Vuciqi and Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj.
He has faced legal charges in Serbia several times and is a close associate of Kosovo Serb contractor Zvonko Veselinovic.
Ivanovic was shot dead in Mitrovica on 16 January outside of his party's offices of Freedom, Democracy Justice, which was opposed to the Belgrade-backed Serbian Party list of Srpska.
Ivanovic had said several times before he was killed that he and his family had received threats, and had sought help from Kosovo, Serbia and others, but without answer.
