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Organized crime threatens Serbian president - official
13 Apr 2010 15:20:51 GMT
Source: *******
* Montenegrin assassins suspected
* Tadic has called organised crime a key challenge
By Aleksandar Vasovic
BELGRADE, April 13 (*******) - Serbia has stepped up protection for its president Boris Tadic and other leaders as they face credible assassination threats from criminal groups, officials said on Tuesday.
Such threats are taken seriously in a country where an assassin in 2003 killed a reformist prime minister.
"The threat level and findings of security services are indicating the threats are serious," said Dusan Bajatovic, the deputy head of the parliamentary committee for state security.
"We are all well aware of the risk." In an interview published on Tuesday, Slobodan Homen, state secretary with the Justice Ministry, said security agencies had stepped up security for Tadic and other officials, suspecting a plot involving assassins from neighboring Montenegro.
"They plotted to kill Tadic, Justice Minister Snezana Malovic, organized crime prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevic and people from the police and the security agency," Homen said in an interview with the Blic daily.
He did not specify whether authorites had arrested anyone in connection with the plot.
COCAINE SMUGGLING
Also on Tuesday, Radisavljevic said he had indicted a 20-strong mixed Serbian and Montenegrin group for smuggling 2.6 tonnes of cocaine in 2009 from South America.
Article continued at http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63C1WD.htm
13 Apr 2010 15:20:51 GMT
Source: *******
* Montenegrin assassins suspected
* Tadic has called organised crime a key challenge
By Aleksandar Vasovic
BELGRADE, April 13 (*******) - Serbia has stepped up protection for its president Boris Tadic and other leaders as they face credible assassination threats from criminal groups, officials said on Tuesday.
Such threats are taken seriously in a country where an assassin in 2003 killed a reformist prime minister.
"The threat level and findings of security services are indicating the threats are serious," said Dusan Bajatovic, the deputy head of the parliamentary committee for state security.
"We are all well aware of the risk." In an interview published on Tuesday, Slobodan Homen, state secretary with the Justice Ministry, said security agencies had stepped up security for Tadic and other officials, suspecting a plot involving assassins from neighboring Montenegro.
"They plotted to kill Tadic, Justice Minister Snezana Malovic, organized crime prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevic and people from the police and the security agency," Homen said in an interview with the Blic daily.
He did not specify whether authorites had arrested anyone in connection with the plot.
COCAINE SMUGGLING
Also on Tuesday, Radisavljevic said he had indicted a 20-strong mixed Serbian and Montenegrin group for smuggling 2.6 tonnes of cocaine in 2009 from South America.
Article continued at http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63C1WD.htm