Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković, members of the Kavača criminal clan, shortly before their arrest in Belgrade on February 4, 2021, intended, as indicated by transcripts of their communication via the SKY ECC platform, to contact "the Americans" and hand them compromising information about the Serbian authorities.
Also, from this communication it is clear that Belivuk and Miljković are disappointed with the changed attitude of the authorities towards them, this is understood from the intercepted messages in which the Montenegrin research portal Libertas i Radar had insight:
"Give us those Americans, let's cross them like a shallow stream," Belivuk wrote on the Sky app on February 1, 2021, in a group chat that he and his criminal companions from Montenegro called Knights of the Round Table, which was created while he and Miljković were visiting Radoje Zvicer.
Two days earlier, on January 30, 2021, Miljković wrote in that group that due to this changed relationship, they would also withhold their support for the ruling SNS: "Yesterday, Soprano and I were talking about it, I swear how respected we are here, and here this shit wants to lynch us but V won't get a vote from us, so exactly 40 will be enough to finish. Do you have a good account with the Americans who want to overthrow V here? If necessary, brother, we will write to you, I don't give a damn about politics, but this sicko goes too far. He started attacking everyone."
On the same day, Miljković sent a message: "And they see that we are not going to support them in the elections, Vučić, and then, you understand, brother, now they want to tear us apart. Let them, brother, just let them do whatever they want, brother, but they will never get a vote from us again."
On January 31, five days before the arrest, Miljković wrote that he and Belivuk would no longer be in Serbia at the same time due to the situation they found themselves in: "We will not both be in the country for more than a shift, one in Srb and the other out, then rotation. Because this is a joke, what are they doing, V has gone completely crazy. Totally. I have a gym at home, bro, I train hard in the morning, but not like before, these traitors here annoy me. Of course they will, bro, I don't give a damn, let them put us in prison, it won't be the first time, but it annoys you when someone sells you to whom you did nothing wrong. This is how it was with the whore Dijana, bro, so we beat her, we will do this too. Vulin was planting Jovanjica until yesterday and now he is playing the role of the Minister of Police for me. We will have some footage of their affairs, so let's see how we can sell it to the Americans. Because the media here is completely suppressed. So let the Americans beat him when he is a traitor to his country and his friends, a bum. I will collect everything for you. I want brother, let's just coordinate everything here and fly back to CG."
Belivuk and Miljković, according to the Europol report, landed in Montenegro on January 17th to attend a celebration organized by Radoje Zvicer.
Petar Lazović, a former employee of the Montenegrin National Security Agency, writes in that report that he has information that Belivuk and Miljković are under full surveillance by the Serbian intelligence service and informs Zvicer about it.
Petar, the son of Zoran Lazović, the former head of the Police Directorate's Sector for Combating Organized Crime, even suggests how to play a joke on the Montenegrin security service.
The conversation in the group concerns Belivuk's and Miljković's visit to Montenegro, meetings, celebrations, but also planned crimes, according to the Europol report, which the Libertas portal had access to.
The report also states that Belivuk, Miljković and Zvicer "were fully aware and familiar with police activities directed at members of the opposing Škaljari clan, and even gave Lazović suggestions on how the police should conduct the investigation."
After Libertas published parts of the report that Europol had given to the Special State Prosecutor's Office a year earlier in May 2022, the newly appointed Chief Special Prosecutor (GST) Vladimir Novović arrested Petar Lazović, but Zvicer and Milović escaped.
The previous chief special prosecutor, Milivoje Katnić, found nothing objectionable in the Europol report.
Several trials are underway at the Higher Court in Podgorica in which all members of the Knights of the Round Table chat group are accused.
A year and a half after the arrest of Belivuk and Miljković on Mount Rudnik, in early February 2021, the trial of these two, along with ten other members of the group they led, began after several delays and preparatory hearings in mid-2022 before the Special Court in Belgrade.
That might not be too long if it could be viewed from the perspective of dealing with our own, renegade cadres.
Namely, since Belivuk said in his statement before the prosecutor that he had been a member of the SNS since 2011, the media barrage that is so characteristic of the SNS followed, as did the public denial by people at the top of the government that they even knew these two.
The arrest and dismantling of this group was apparently conditioned by the announcement of the decoding of the SKY ECC application by French investigators and the series of arrests of drug clans in EU countries.
This thesis is supported by the fact that Belivuk's group, in addition to its unprecedented brutality in European criminal law, was also characterized by the fact that it used this application not only for mutual communication, but also for luring victims and even for sending photos of their massacred bodies to its opponents.
The over 300-page indictment from the Belgrade Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (JTOK) describes the corpus of criminal offenses for which the group is charged: seven murders, drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape, extortion, and illegal possession of weapons.
In addition to providing insight into the cost of human life in Vučić's Serbia, it also includes quotes from the communication between members of the criminal group. Like the one sent by Belivuk, taking a photo of himself next to one of the massacred bodies: "Look, doll, Mexico in the middle of Belgrade."
Or another, even more explicit one: "I only stare at corpses... It's strange to me when I see a living person," for which the authorship belongs to Marko Miljković.
Additionally, in the days and weeks that followed February 4, 2021, the highest-ranking government officials in Belgrade, and especially the President of the Republic, Aleksandar Vučić, as well as pro-government paramedia, went to great lengths to present the most horrific details of the crimes of this criminal group to the general public without any restrictions.
No one could stop Vučić and Vulin from showing uncensored photographs of massacred victims in their television appearances, indiscriminately to the entire public, but also to the families of the murdered.
For his part, at his first opportunity to address the court and the public at the preparatory hearing in March 2022, Belivuk said: "If you agree to release everyone here, and leave me and Marko Miljković in custody, I offer myself as a cooperating witness in the Savamal cases, the murder of Oliver Ivanović and Vladimir Cvijan."
The authorities in Belgrade have never answered the questions: how, under whose supervision, and for what purpose was Veljko Belivuk's criminal group created?
Neither the government nor the prosecution have addressed interesting facts such as the fact that, for example, Goran Colić, a former employee and then head of the 5th Counterintelligence Directorate of the BIA, was elected to the FK Partizan assembly in 2014 as a fan representative, at a time when the stadium stands were managed by a group led by Aleksandar Stanković, known as Sale Mutavi, and Veljko Belivuk.
Stanković was murdered in Belgrade in October 2016, and Belivuk took over the leadership of the group and the forum.
Colić, a cadre of Bratislav Gašić in the BIA, was considered a man for important tasks.
He accompanied Vojislav Šešelj to The Hague, and met Darko Šarić at the airport, and soon advanced to the position of head of the 5th Directorate of the BIA, which, among other things, deals with counterintelligence protection of representatives of the executive branch.
Colić, as well as the chief coordinator of the Gendarmerie Nenad Vučković, were elected to the assembly of FC Partizan at the proposal of Novak Nedić, the then Secretary General of the Government of Serbia.
A lawyer from the office of Vojislav Nedić (Novak Nedić's father), was Belivuk's legal representative at the trial for the murder of Vlastimir Milošević in January 2017.
Belivuk was suspected and arrested a few days after the assassination of Milošević in the city center, but was released under unusual circumstances, due to compromised evidence, specifically DNA traces that later turned out to be incomplete.
Additional questions are raised by the fact that at least half of the murders suspected of this group were committed while Belivuk and Miljković were under communications surveillance and secret surveillance measures, as discovered by investigative journalists.
Security services monitored the communications and movements of other members of this group, as also evidenced by court orders.
Surveillance measures covered their contacts and communication in open spaces as well as in buildings, monitoring, recording and intercepting telephone conversations.
Belivuk's six mobile phones were under surveillance, and he himself was subject to secret monitoring and recording measures.
The court's explanation of the decision states that Veljko Belivuk's group operates under the facade of the Principi fan group, that he is linked to the murders, that is, in close cooperation with the Kavač clan, and that with their support he wants to take complete control over the distribution of drugs and criminal activities in Belgrade.
Gendarme Nenad Vučković, coordinator in the Belgrade Detachment of this police unit, was photographed in the company of Stanković and Belivuk in the stands where he led the cheering.
The Serbian Military Union revealed that Vučković, along with Nedić, Belivuk and Stanković, practiced shooting at the state military shooting range in Pančevo, but these claims remained unproven as video surveillance footage and records of entry to the shooting range disappeared.
During the proceedings against former State Secretary at the Ministry of Interior Dijana Hrkalović, the police submitted to the prosecution a report on the expert examination of Veljko Belivuk's phone, which highlighted his communication with police officers, BIA agents, including the one with Vučković from October 2016.
"She knows. The boss knows. The head boss knows. But there's not a day that goes by without one of them telling me five times to keep you under control so you don't do anything. And you need to pull yourself together. Slowly."
In that communication, in addition to the bosses, Andrej, the minister, and Nebojša are also mentioned...
The police indicated that "D and She" was actually Dijana Hrkalović, but it was never determined who was the boss and who was the main boss.
Belivuk claimed before the prosecutor that he met with Vučić, and that over a long period of time he provided the authorities with various services: to prevent chants against the president, to prevent real fans from rebelling in an organized manner against the club's management's policies, to intimidate anyone who might rebel against the authorities.
On the same occasion, he pointed out that he had met with Vučić several times, while Miljković met with former Minister of Police Vulin.
Both Vučić and Vulin denied these allegations.
In the same way that the prosecution did not address how and where such a powerful criminal group emerged in Belgrade in 2019, contacts with representatives of the authorities and the security sector were not investigated.
Equally interesting is the development of events leading up to the arrest itself, namely the reasons why Belivuk and Miljković were allowed to leave Serbia and travel to Montenegro on January 17, 2021.
They returned to Belgrade on January 29th, were interrogated for several hours at the airport immediately after landing, then released, only to be arrested again on February 4th.
The Europol report, which was submitted to the Montenegrin prosecutor's office and which the editorial staff of the Libertas and Radar portals had access to, states that the "chat group" was created on January 20, 2021, while Belivuk and Miljković were in Montenegro, and that it includes:
7B83PJ - Ljubo MILOVIĆ – "The Evil Lieutenant"
8MA869 - Radoje SWITZERLAND – „Born“
DN3GOV - Petar LAZOVIC – "Junior"
PU0HVI - Marko MILJKOVIĆ – "Kratos"
HEQ1BF - Veljko BELIVUK – "Soprano"
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