Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic called the illegal wiretapping of President Aleksandar Vucic a coup attempt, in which, according to her, functionaries of the ruling party and high officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were involved.
Earlier, Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandr Vulin said that, according to law enforcement agencies, the head of the Serbian state and his family members were illegally tapped 1,572 times. The minister clarified that high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were involved in this, and that the case and the collected materials were transferred to the department of the prosecutor’s office for organized crime, RIA Novosti reports.
“Wiretapping of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is an attempt at a coup d’etat,” the head of the Serbian government said.
“I think this is a cohesion of people in the security services, primarily in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as in the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, to which I belong. This cohesion also covers criminal organizations, the mafia and part of the media in Serbia, as well as part of the system justice, and without any doubt, there is intervention by foreign services. The aim was to destabilize Serbia by physically or otherwise removing Vucic, “Brnabic said.
Milos Vucevic, deputy chairman of the ruling SPP and mayor of Novi Sad, told reporters that among those who took part in the conspiracy against the president, “there are also ministers, directors and other party functionaries.
The specific names of the suspected officials were not disclosed.