Kricak, Sekulovic Kept in Custody on New Legal Ground
The Higher Court in Belgrade upheld the prosecution's appeal and added risk of reoffending to the custody of defendants M.K. and B.S., rejecting the defense appeals.
Marko Kricak and Bosko Sekulovic, as N1 identifies them, will remain in custody, now on two statutory grounds. On November 6, the criminal pretrial panel of the Special Department for Combating Corruption at the Higher Court in Belgrade granted the appeal of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade and added risk of reoffending to the custody order. In its statement, the court refers to the defendants only by initials, M.K. and B.S.
What did the court decide?
The panel amended the ruling of the pretrial judge from November 3, 2026. Custody had then been ordered under Article 211, paragraph 1, point 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The panel added the ground from point 3 of the same article: special circumstances indicating a risk that the defendants could repeat the criminal offense within a short period of time.
The same ruling rejected the defense attorneys’ appeals against the November 3 decision as unfounded. No appeal is allowed against the panel’s new decision. The defense’s position on the ruling was not published in the court’s statement.
N1 reports that the men in question are Marko Kricak, the former head of the Criminal Police Directorate, and Bosko Sekulovic, head of the Service for Combating Crime. Guilt has not been established, and the proceedings are at a stage in which it is only being examined.
What are the defendants accused of?
According to the prosecution, from May 12 to June 3, 2026, the two men, as officials of the Interior Ministry (MUP), abused and exceeded their official powers and failed to perform their duties. Under the indictment’s theory, the damage was done to the former chief of the Belgrade Police Directorate, whom the prosecution identifies by the initials V.M. and N1 names as Veselin Milic. The conduct relates to the work on the murder of Aleksandar Nesovic, committed on May 12, 2026, at the restaurant “27” in Senjak.
Chief Higher Public Prosecutor in Belgrade Nenad Stefanovic explained at a press conference who is accused of what. Kricak is suspected of abuse of office (Article 359, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code) and of ill-treatment and torture (Article 137) of a person identified by the initials N.L. on May 16, 2026, while Sekulovic is charged only with abuse of office.
Stefanovic rejected any link to the elections at the time: “Today’s arrest has been carried out and has nothing to do with electoral processes and election results.” He added: “The prosecution began carrying out its pre-election actions in May of this year.” On the detention, he said: “The arrested persons have been placed in detention for up to 48 hours by order of the prosecutor in charge.”
What came before?
The case is tied to the murder of Aleksandar Nesovic. His body, N1 reports, was found on May 21 in a barrel on the territory of the municipality of Indjija, in the presence of public prosecutors. According to the same source, Veselin Milic was arrested on May 15 along with ten other people, and on July 6 a panel of the Higher Court in Belgrade decided that he could defend himself while free. On July 10, the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office filed an indictment proposal against him over suspicion that he failed to report a grave murder he learned about in the line of duty and entered false information in an official note.
Kricak and Sekulovic are therefore defendants in a case in which Milic is designated as the injured party. The November 6 decision says nothing about their guilt. It addresses only the statutory grounds on which they are being held in custody.
