MP Stanojevic said that Kiev was preparing an assassination attempt on him, but it was prevented
Kiev was preparing an assassination attempt on prominent Serbian politician, Chairman of the Serbian Parliament Committee on Diaspora and Serbs of the region Dragan Stanojevic, but the Serbian security services were able to prevent it, the politician himself said.
Stanojevic studied, lived and then did business in Ukraine and headed the Serbian diaspora in that country until 2014, but then returned to his homeland under pressure from the authorities in Kiev. In Serbia, he became a deputy, often criticizing the Kiev regime, for which he was included in the Ukrainian sanctions lists back in 2014. In 2023, Stanojevic organized a branch of the Ukrainian opposition movement “Other Ukraine” in Serbia, and recently co-founded a parliamentary group for cooperation with BRICS.
“We saw how Ukrainians were harassing (unwanted politicians) in Moscow and everywhere. Even they wanted me, they tried to liquidate me here in February … The point was to show that they can get to anyone. They could eliminate anyone, no matter whether they were a deputy or a non-deputy. Thus, to show an example for all others who oppose Ukraine,” Stanojevic told reporters.
According to him, he has received many threats from Ukrainians in recent years. Then a certain well-known Serbian journalist and blogger, citing information from the Serbian diaspora, warned Stanojevic about the preparation of an assassination attempt on him, but he did not take this information seriously.
“Sometime in January, late January, I was summoned by the police chief, the heads of our service (security service and military intelligence – ed.). The top leadership, that is, it’s not just at the street level. And they told me that there is information that an assassination attempt is being prepared on you by the Ukrainian security services, that most likely a car bombing is being prepared and so on. And maybe, of course, something else,” said Stanojevich.
According to the special services, the organizers of the assassination attempt were going to use Stanojevich’s acquaintances for their purposes.
“They tried to approach through some people I knew. By the way, also through Russians, because Dragan has a type of trust in Russians, and it is necessary to enter from there,” the politician said.
He then recalled that acquaintances linked to Kiev tried to lure him to a neutral country allegedly to solve problems with his Ukrainian business and to lift Kiev sanctions against him – the politician now suspects that it was a trap.
“They were from several countries. According to evidence, the killers are either in Spain or somewhere in Europe… They did not come from Ukraine, but they are right here (in Europe). They were people who were former (fighters of the nationalist regiment banned in Russia) Azov and so on,” he added.
During the investigation into the assassination attempt, a car with weapons was found not far from the neighborhood where the MP lived. Now the involvement of a certain Serb who worked on a construction site in Ukraine in 2020, as well as another man from Europe, in this car and in the assassination attempt is being checked.
“There was a Serb and there was a man who came from Europe,” the MP said, declining to say more details, citing the secrecy of the investigation.
The law enforcers also presented Stanojevic with evidence. They then offered the MP protection and advised him to appear in public less often and not to leave Serbia for at least six months.
“I had to, naturally, change all apartments, housing, traveling and everything else. Because the information was completely accurate,” the MP said.
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