Senjak: prosecutors widen killing probe to 11 people

Belgrade’s Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office said on June 13 that it had widened its investigation into an aggravated murder committed on May 12, 2026, at a restaurant in the Senjak district. The probe now covers eleven people, and after gathering physical evidence and questioning witnesses, prosecutors for the first time publicly laid out a reconstruction of the event itself and of how the traces were removed.

At the center of the case is the killing of Aleksandar Nesovic, whose disappearance set off a chain of investigative steps. According to prosecutors, the body was moved to a lake after the killing and encased in concrete inside barrels, then found on May 21, 2026. In its statement, the office said there is considerable public interest in the case, which it gave as the reason for more detailed reporting on the course of the investigation.

What exactly do prosecutors allege?

Two suspects are charged with aggravated murder as co-perpetrators. One of them, according to prosecutors, fired an unspecified number of shots from a 9x19 millimeter pistol. A third suspect, S. V, is charged with aiding the aggravated murder and with the unlawful carrying of a weapon. It should be stressed that at this stage prosecutors are setting out suspicions rather than established guilt, which still has to be confirmed by a court.

Measures to gather evidence have been ordered against eight more people over failing to report a crime or assisting the perpetrator after the act. With that, the investigation has expanded from the immediate perpetrators to a wider chain of people who, in the prosecution’s view, took part in concealing the killing or stayed silent about it despite having knowledge of it.

The reconstruction prosecutors presented for the first time ties the individual steps into a single timeline, from the killing on May 12, through the concealment of the body, to its discovery on May 21. That sequence of actions, along with the evidence gathered and the witnesses questioned, is what the office cites as the basis for widening the probe.

Why is the police chief’s removal part of this case?

The most sensitive part of the widened investigation concerns the removed Belgrade police chief. Veselin Milic is charged with knowingly failing to report a crime, an offense that carries up to five years in prison. It is a charge that places a senior police official in the same investigation as those suspected of the killing itself and of concealing the evidence.

This expansion marks a new development compared with earlier stages of the case, which dealt with an extension of detention and the dismissal of part of a complaint. Prosecutors are now offering, for the first time, a full picture of the events and naming every level of responsibility they are investigating, from perpetrators, through accomplices, to an official suspected of failing to act.

The case is at the investigative stage, which means the final classification of the offense and any finding of guilt rest with the court. By gathering physical evidence and questioning witnesses, the office said, it reached the grounds to widen the circle of the accused. Will the court proceedings confirm the reconstruction and the chain of responsibility that prosecutors describe?