Veselin Milic Back at Police Directorate Since July 6
The Interior Ministry told N1 that Milic's removal from duty ended the day his detention did, and that it holds no document on any disciplinary proceeding.
Veselin Milic, a police colonel and former chief of the Belgrade Police Department, is working at the Police Directorate again. His removal from duty ended on July 6, 2026, the same day his detention was lifted and four days before the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade filed an indictment proposal against him. That follows from a written reply by the Interior Ministry (MUP) to the newsroom of N1, published today.
What does the Interior Ministry say about Milic’s status?
Responding to a freedom of information request, the ministry said Milic was assigned to the post of assistant police director under his “latest final decision.” The reply reads, word for word:
“Veselin Milic’s removal from duty ended on July 6, 2026, and under the latest final decision he was assigned on June 25, 2025 to the post of Assistant Police Director for Improving and Organizing the Work of the Police Directorate in the Police Directorate.”
The date in that reply is June 25, 2025, which does not line up with the other events of 2026. Neither N1 nor Danas interprets it; both simply relay it.
On the second question, whether disciplinary proceedings have been opened against Milic, the ministry gave neither a yes nor a no. MUP stated that it “does not hold a document containing the requested information on disciplinary proceedings having been initiated.”
Lawyer Bozo Prelevic told N1 that the reply means Milic has physically returned to his post, which he could do only if no disciplinary proceeding is pending against him. He added: “Other police officers who are not favorites would not have such a privilege.”
What did Dacic say earlier?
Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told the public on October 4 that Milic’s employment status had not changed, except that he no longer runs the Belgrade police. He said Milic is an assistant police director who had been temporarily appointed to head the Belgrade Police Department, and that he had relieved him of that role. Of the post itself, he said: “his post stays as it is until the proceedings are over.” He added that employment status is handled by the Police Directorate, not the ministry.
A day later, on October 5, Dacic said police director Dragan Vasiljevic had not told him whether disciplinary proceedings had been opened, and that Vasiljevic is the only person authorized to open them. According to Dacic, suspension over the criminal offense Milic is charged with is not possible, and the law allowed removal from duty only while Milic was in detention.
Dacic’s reading, that Milic was never chief but only temporarily appointed, clashes with a statement published on the MUP website on November 17, 2020, under minister Aleksandar Vulin. It says that by the minister’s decision Colonel Veselin Milic, until then an assistant police director, was appointed the new chief of the Belgrade Police Department.
N1 requested the data on Milic’s status in early August, and again on September 1 through the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection. It had received no answer by the time of publication.
What is Milic charged with, and when is the trial?
The Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office filed its indictment proposal on July 10, 2026. Milic is charged with failing to report a murder and its perpetrator, and with forging an official document. The prosecution dropped the charge of aiding a perpetrator after the crime. The Higher Court in Belgrade then declared itself not competent, and the case was taken over by the First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the indictment, the owner of the restaurant “27” in Senjak, identified as N. L., called Milic after 11 p.m. on May 12, 2026 and reported the murder of Aleksandar Nesovic Baja, which Milic reported to no one. The next day, May 13, he allegedly entered false information into an official note and left out important facts, among them that he met defendant Sasa Vukovic by chance at the restaurant, even though he had personally called him beforehand. Sasa Vukovic, known as Boske, is charged with the murder itself.
The proceedings against Milic have been separated from those against the other defendants in the Nesovic murder, who will be tried by the Higher Court in Belgrade. His trial is scheduled for November 9 at the First Basic Court in Belgrade.
On July 30, Milic’s lawyers filed a criminal complaint against Marko Kricak, head of the Criminal Police Directorate, and Bosko Sekulovic, head of the Service for Combating Organized Crime, on suspicion of abuse of office to Milic’s detriment. According to Milic’s lawyers, Kricak and Sekulovic did not hand over to the prosecution evidence they held, which, as the lawyers put it, clearly showed that the facts in the complaint against Milic were untrue.
