Milan Vukašinović/Svečla case: A former member of the Serbian MUP has been arrested for his kidnapping

2025-12-20 21:18:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Milan Vukašinovi?/Sve?la case: A former member of the Serbian MUP has

Kosovo's acting Minister of Internal Affairs, Xhelal Sveçla, said that a former member of the Serbian MUP has been arrested in connection with the "kidnapping of Kosovo citizen Milan Vukašinovi?."

According to Sveçla, the arrested VM was integrated into the Kosovo Police, based on the Brussels agreement of 2013, but later resigned. According to him, he was arrested during an operation by the Police and the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, in Leshak.

"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.

According to Kosovo authorities, Vukašinovi? was allegedly kidnapped inside Kosovo territory on November 1.

"In Kosovo, no one will be able to escape justice. Our professional institutions have the capacity to address every threat and solve every crime ," Sveçla wrote.

He said that it is suspected that VM has been in contact with Serbian intelligence structures and the army, "has prepared young Serbs for training in cooperation with members of the Serbian army, and at least was aware of the preparations for the terrorist attack in Banjska."

Kosovo authorities had previously called on the international community to put pressure on Belgrade following the alleged wounding and kidnapping of Vukashinovic by the Serbian Gendarmerie.

It is suspected that Vukašinovi? was injured and then kidnapped on November 1 in the village of Jellakce near Leposavic, before being taken to the Prokuplje hospital, and later to the Clinical Center in Niš. Serbia has not reacted to the case.

Vukašinovi?'s family, through lawyer Ivan Nini?, have filed a lawsuit with the High Public Prosecutor's Office of Prokuplje.

Ninic said that since the Serbian state has been silent, the lawsuit has been filed against unknown persons, members of the Serbian Army, or the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, or Milan Radoi?i?, former deputy leader of the Serbian List, who had claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on the 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.

After authorities made Vukašinovi?'s case public, Kosovo's acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, stated that he was attacked because "he is an opponent of the policies and regime of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu?i?."

Radio Free Europe, using forensic facial identification tools, has confirmed that Vukashinovi? 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 bypass Serbia," he said. /REL