Milivojevic says he has BIA file on bugging of DS offices

The Democratic Party (DS) offices on Nusiceva Street in Belgrade and Colak Antina Street in Krusevac were bugged, says party president Srdjan Milivojevic, who on November 6, 2026 brought to the N1 television studio a folder he says is his file from the Security Information Agency (BIA). He did not show its contents. He says the document is classified as strictly confidential and that showing it would expose him to criminal liability.

According to him, the file contains data on surveillance and wiretapping of him personally and of the party’s premises, as well as data on the discontinuation of some of the surveillance measures. Nova.rs republished the N1 report on the matter at 11:31.

What did Milivojevic say in the studio?

He described the contents of the file this way:

“I learned that I used, mind you, the services of independent media, by which they mean N1 and Nova S, to promote my radical ideas, and that you helped me with that. That the DS offices on Nusiceva are bugged, that the offices on Colak Antina in Krusevac are bugged, which I used as a councilor in the Krusevac city assembly then”

The offices in question are the ones he used while serving as a councilor in the Krusevac city assembly. He was commenting on the front page of the daily Danas, which reads “Clean Up BIA, Orlic Must Answer.” The surveillance of political opponents and of the organized crime prosecutor, he said, is one more sign that BIA and the Military Security Agency (VBA) must be dissolved.

Milivojevic said the wiretapping did not stop with him:

“DS is not saying this only now, when we have undeniable, material evidence that it was not only me who was wiretapped as the president of a parliamentary party - DS premises were wiretapped, and the parliamentary groups DS used in the National Assembly were probably wiretapped as well”

He added that he expects more such documents. In the coming days, he said, there will be “plenty” of them.

What does he demand from the state?

Milivojevic wants BIA and VBA disbanded and a new agency set up under strict parliamentary control, with the files opened “so we can see who did what.” Asked by an N1 journalist what the solution is, he answered:

“That the Assembly’s administrative committee strip them of immunity as soon as proceedings against them are launched before the judicial institutions, that they be arrested, brought in and put in custody so they cannot influence witnesses and keep destroying evidence, and there is countless evidence”

As examples the proceedings would cover, he named the Konjuh affair, the paramilitary camp near Loznica and Banjska. He also mentioned the current commander of the Criminal Police Directorate, Nevenko Maric, together with a demand for a “complete restart of the police system.” He placed responsibility for the state of the country on the previous government:

“Ana Brnabic is the acting president of the state and the speaker of the National Assembly, and everything happening in Serbia at this moment is the responsibility of the former regime, which is still in power - for a short while longer”

He added that the Democratic Party has launched an initiative to ban the Serbian Progressive Party. The Republic Electoral Commission had earlier declared the final results of the snap parliamentary election of October 25: the “Student List - Students Win” took 140 seats and “United Serbia - Aleksandar Vucic” took 103.

What does Radar report about the same surveillance?

Milivojevic’s claim follows a report by the portal Radar on BIA surveillance of critics of the government. Radar states that the Higher Court in Belgrade first approved covert surveillance of Milivojevic on January 30, 2026, and extended it on April 24 and July 27 of the same year. According to Radar, a new BIA request was signed by agency director Vladimir Orlic on October 24, the day before the election. It reached the court on October 27 and was rejected on October 29. The rejections were signed by the president of the Higher Court in Belgrade, Dragan Milosevic.

According to Radar, BIA claimed in the request that Milivojevic “continuously carries out activities that endanger the security of the Republic of Serbia,” asserting that as a member of Otpor in the 1990s and early 2000s he attended training in Szeged and Baltimore. Radar writes that no evidence was provided for this, which the Higher Court also found. Milivojevic replied to Radar:

“It is interesting that BIA knows the chassis number of my car, but does not know how five tons of drugs ended up in the warehouse of an SNS councilor in Konjuh. It is terrible that BIA spies on prosecutors of the Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office, opposition parties and journalists, yet does not know that a secret paramilitary camp for combat-tactical training of citizens of Moldova and Romania was organized near Loznica, in the Suncana Reka tourist complex. Why do these people draw a salary if they claim I was in Baltimore, although I have never been to the US. How did they establish that I was in Szeged in 1999 and 2000, when they confiscated my passport in 1998, while they do not know how Banjska happened to them and what its participants are doing at Jovanjica”

Radar further reports that organized crime prosecutor Aleksandar Barac, who handles the “Canopy” case, had also been under covert surveillance since April 9, 2026. The measures were extended on May 29, June 19 and October 7. According to the same source, Orlic wrote to the president of the Higher Court four days after the election asking for those measures to be halted.

We previously reported on the reaction of Belgrade University rector Vladan Djokic, who said that BIA surveillance of the head of his cabinet must be investigated. The reports we draw on contain no response from BIA or director Orlic to Milivojevic’s claims.