A person arrested in the "Vukashinovic" case / Weapons and ammunition found in his apartment

2025-12-21 11:43:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

A person arrested in the "Vukashinovic" case / Weapons and ammunition

Kosovo Police said that during a search of the house and surrounding premises of the man arrested for involvement in the alleged wounding and kidnapping of Kosovo citizen Milan Vukašinovi?, they found a gun and several cartridges.

"During the raid, the following material evidence was found and seized: nine mobile phones, a laptop, three A4 documents, a hunting rifle with 39 cartridges, a hunting rifle cartridge vest, and a gun barrel. The suspect, after being interviewed by the prosecutor, was taken into custody ," the 24-hour Police report said.

On the evening of December 20, the acting Minister of Internal Affairs, Xhelal Sveçla, said that the arrested person, VM, had been a member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and was later integrated into the Kosovo Police. According to Sveçla, he subsequently resigned from the Kosovo Police.

"There are well-founded suspicions that the arrested person has continuously collaborated with and supported the security structures of Serbia, including the kidnapping of Milan Vukašinovi?, who was seriously injured during the kidnapping and is currently being treated in a hospital in Serbia," Sve?la wrote on Facebook on the evening of December 20.

According to Kosovo authorities, Vukašinovi? was allegedly injured and then kidnapped in the village of Jellakce, near Leposavic, on November 1, before being taken to the Prokuplje hospital, and then to the Niš Clinical Center.

Vukašinovi?'s family has filed lawsuits in Serbia against individuals who are members of the Serbian Army, or the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, or Milan Radoi?i?, former deputy leader of the Serbian List, who claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on Kosovo Police in Banjska, Zve?an, in 2023.

Vukašinovi? was employed by the Kosovo Insurance Bureau at the border crossing in Jarinje, in northern Kosovo.

Kosovo's acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, previously stated that Vukasinovic was attacked because he opposed "the policies of the regime of Serbian President Aleksandar Vu?i?."

Following the announcement of the suspected kidnapping, Radio Free Europe, using forensic facial identification tools, has confirmed that Vukašinovi? is the same person who on June 28 of this year had spoken publicly about the pressures he had faced, in an interview with journalist and former Serbian MP Nemanja Šarovi?, for the Serbian television station KTV.

During that interview, he stated that Serbs were forced to leave Kosovo institutions in November 2022 under pressure from the Serbian List, and that he himself had been a victim of pressure, adding that he did not feel safe traveling to Serbia because he had refused to resign.

"They have slandered me about many things, they have linked me to Albanians, I am not sure about traveling to Serbia. I am here in Kosovo, I am bypassing Serbia ," he said. /REL