Stefanović: Patrushev did not take the spies away, Serbia did not expel anyone

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia, Nebojša Stefanović, today denied media reports that the head of the National Security Council of Russia, Nikolay Patrushev, was in Belgrade to bring the alleged three Russian spies back to Moscow.

"None of that is true. Patrushev was in Serbia to discuss the continuation of cooperation. Serbia did not expel anyone, nor did anyone leave with Patrushev," Stefanović told reporters after handing over the MUP employment contract to graduates of the Criminalistics and Police Department. academy and participants of the Center for basic police training in Sremska Kamenica.

According to the media, Patrushev was in Belgrade in order to go to Russia returned three alleged spies, but it was also writes that Serbia has already expelled them.

A few days ago, the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said after the session of the Bureau for Coordination of the Security Service that the activity of foreign intelligence services has increased in Serbia, both from the east and from the west.