Milic's Lawyers Report Interior Ministry Over Surveillance
Lawyers for Veselin Milic filed a report on August 10 against unknown Interior Ministry officials, alleging his movements are being leaked to criminal circles.
The law office Vasiljevic, which represents former Belgrade police chief Veselin Milic, filed a criminal complaint with the Belgrade Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office on August 10 against unknown persons employed by the Ministry of Interior (MUP). The complaint concerns the criminal offense of abuse of official position under Article 359, paragraph 1, of the Criminal Code.
The lawyers claim their client is being tracked, using official data about his movements that, they say, ministry employees with access to it are passing to people from criminal circles.
“We are informing the public that today, August 10, we filed a criminal complaint with the Belgrade Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office against unknown persons, officials of the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Serbia, over grounds for suspicion that they committed the criminal offense of abuse of official position under Article 359, paragraph 1, of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia, to the detriment of our client Veselin Milic,” the law office said in a statement.
Telegram footage that triggered the complaint
The immediate trigger was a high-resolution video that surfaced on the Telegram account “Medeni sve zna” (Medeni Knows Everything). The account’s owner is not officially known, but it is attributed to Milos Medenica, a fugitive Montenegrin national convicted at first instance of organized crime, smuggling, and unlawful influence.
The footage shows a man in swim trunks beside the pool of a luxury property in Montenegro. It is accompanied by claims that the man is Milic and that he owns the villa. His lawyers dispute both claims, and consider the way the material was produced central to the complaint.
“Persons from criminal circles also presented to the public footage that was likely made using an official drone, footage that falsely shows the injured party Veselin Milic swimming in the pool of some villa in Montenegro, and also falsely claims that Veselin Milic is supposedly the owner of that property,” the statement reads.
The reference to an official drone is what sets this complaint apart from an ordinary dispute over leaked private footage. If that claim holds up, the prosecutor’s office is not looking at a dispute between Milic and a Telegram account, but at the question of who used the ministry’s equipment, and on whose orders.
Why do the lawyers stress that Milic has no travel ban?
The statement explicitly notes that Milic has not been placed under any travel ban, movement restriction, or any other measure within the criminal proceedings against him. That preempts any reading of his time abroad as a breach of some obligation to the court.
The point serves a second purpose too. If no such measure exists, there is no legitimate basis for anyone at the ministry to track where Milic goes, which leaves any such surveillance without official cover.
“As we have already pointed out, these are false claims that continue the reputational persecution of Veselin Milic that began on May 15, 2026. What is especially concerning now, however, is that alongside the spread of false information, Veselin Milic is this time also being subjected to physical persecution carried out using information and resources obtained from Interior Ministry officials,” the lawyers said.
A continuing feud inside the police
The same law office had earlier filed a criminal complaint against Criminal Police Directorate chief Marko Kricka and Crime Suppression Service chief Bosko Sekulovic, alleging that by withholding key evidence from the prosecutor’s office they caused Milic’s unfounded prosecution and arrest. Srpske Novine previously reported on that conflict at the top of the police when the Senjak case escalated into a feud inside the ministry.
Milic was arrested after a killing at the restaurant “27” in Belgrade’s Senjak neighborhood on May 12, 2026. The Belgrade Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office later dropped the part of the case that concerned aiding an offender, after surveillance camera footage showed Milic had not been at the restaurant at the time of the killing.
A parallel dispute is playing out on social media. Nina Sobota, a public figure since 2014 and a regular participant at Serbian Progressive Party rallies, posted a video calling Milic by the derogatory nickname “Vazelin M” and claiming he fled to Croatia.
“Betrayal is a choice,” Sobota wrote in that post.
Questions from reporters about Veselin Milic’s employment status at the ministry, whether he has been reinstated, and in what role, went unanswered by the Interior Ministry. The next move rests with the Belgrade Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office, which must decide whether to open an inquiry into the complaint against the unknown officials at all.
