Veselin Milic Trial Opens in Belgrade Over Senjak Case
The former Belgrade police chief arrived at court with his lawyers. The indictment charges him with two offenses, not with the killing at the Senjak restaurant 27.
Veselin Milic, the former head of the Belgrade Police Department, arrived at the First Basic Court in Belgrade on November 9, 2026, where his trial in the Senjak case has begun. He came to the preliminary hearing accompanied by his lawyers.
The indictment was filed by the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade. The Higher Court in Belgrade then declared itself without jurisdiction and sent the case to the First Basic Court, where it is being heard under a summary procedure, separate from the proceedings against the other defendants. Milic is defending himself while free. He was removed as Belgrade police chief and now serves as an assistant director of the police.
What is Milic charged with?
The indictment lists two offenses: failing to report a crime and its perpetrator and forging an official document. Milic is not charged with the killing itself.
Prosecutors allege that he did not report the murder even though the restaurant owner told him about it, and that he entered false information in an official note. According to the charges, the note left out that he knew Sasa Vukovic and that he had personally invited both Vukovic and Nesovic, who was killed later, to the restaurant earlier that day.
The case concerns the killing of Aleksandar Nesovic, known as Baja, at the restaurant 27 in Senjak on May 12, 2026. Prosecutors say he was killed by Sasa Vukovic, nicknamed Boske, and that several people took part in removing traces. Nesovic’s body was found after a search that lasted several days, in a barrel filled with concrete in Jarkovci.
How did the case reach the basic court?
The criminal complaint against Milic, over suspected failure to report the murder and helping the perpetrator after the crime, was filed by the Criminal Police Directorate, then headed by Marko Kricak. About a month later, the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office dropped the part of the complaint alleging that Milic helped remove traces. The investigation continued only on the failure to report.
The case drew attention from the start partly because the people arrested included the man who was then the top operative of the Belgrade police. The proceedings have seen several reversals, and the initial suspicions against Milic were partly dismissed.
What does the defense say, and what happened to Kricak?
Milic’s lawyers published his statement to the prosecutors. In it he rejects the charges and says there is no evidence against him in the proceedings:
no evidence has been presented linking him to the serious but untrue accusations made in the order to conduct the investigation and in the criminal complaint filed by the Criminal Police Directorate
The statement is from Veselin Milic, the former head of the Belgrade Police Department, and his lawyers released it to the public before the trial began.
The defense lawyers then filed a criminal complaint against Kricak. They claim that he withheld, “for personal motives,” evidence in his possession that would, in their view, show the allegations in the police complaint to be untrue.
A few days before the trial, Kricak himself was arrested on the prosecutors’ orders and is in custody on suspicion of several criminal offenses. One of the stated grounds is the suspicion that he knew Milic had left the restaurant before the murder, which contradicts the claims in the complaint on which proceedings against Milic were launched. We reported on Kricak’s detention in the preceding days.
What is known about the hearing?
When the source was published, there was no information on how the hearing was going, who the judge is, or when proceedings will resume. The outcome of today’s hearing has not been announced.
Milic is a defendant and his guilt has not been established, and the indictment has yet to be tested in court. His defense so far amounts to the statement his lawyers released, in which he contests everything he is charged with.
