Flash News

Gjykojeni protestën nga kundërshtarët

Aksident në Greqi, ndërron jetë 16-vjeçari shqiptar

Protesta trazon PS-në/ Zegjineja e ‘meme-ve’ sulmon influenceren: Shëmtirë, diote. Balla kapet me Reuters

Vrasja në Paskuqan/ Autori është gjurmuar deri në Bovillë, ka braktisur mjetin

Publikoi tezën e Letërsisë 20 minuta pas nisjes së provimit, përjashtohet maturanti në Kukës

KRYESORE

Man Arrested for Cultivating Five Tons of Marijuana, a Member of Vucic’s Delegations

Politiko 6 Dhjetor 2019, 10:45

Man Arrested for Cultivating Five Tons of Marijuana, a Member of Vucic’s

Predrag Koluvija, the owner of Jovanjica property near Belgrade, where 650 kilograms of marijuana were found prepared for sale and another four tons of raw marijuana, was a member of economic delegations that traveled abroad with President Aleksandar Vucic on several occasions, vice-president of the opposition People’s Party (NS) Miroslav Aleksic said on Thursday in Serbian Parliament.

Aleksic said that Koluvija took part in economic forums in 2015, 2016 and early in 2019 in Moscow, Kazakhstan, and Belgrade, respectively, and this information was backed up by joint photos of participants with Vucic, as well as the official list of participants.

“I am asking Vucic if he remembers all economic delegations he has been leading all over the world in which one of the businessmen could be Predrag Koluvija.”

On October 27, 2015, together with several other Ministers, Aleksandar Vucic led an economic delegation of Serbia to Moscow and one of the members of the delegation was Predrag Koluvija i.e. the arrested director of Jovanjica company, Aleksic said.

Aleksic added that Koluvija was also presented as a businessman at the Serbian-Slovenian business forum, held in Belgrade on January 28, 2019.

“Koluvija is very close to the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and he has been holding training on cultivation of organic food in their premises, but he has also been speaking at the meeting together with SNS officials such as a member of Belgrade City council Dragomir Petronijevic and Zrenjanin deputy Mayor Dusko Radisic”, Aleksic claimed.

The arrested marijuana producer was also seeing often Agriculture Minister Branislav Nedimovic and Ministry of Economy issued a permit to Jovanjica to cultivate industrial hemp.

“Koluvija was exporting organic food to Russia and Belarus, and their authorities have authorized Serbian inspections to check the conditions in Jovanjica. How is it possible that Serbian inspections have missed 65.000 plants of marijuana and the parent plants that have been up to five and a half years old? A responsibility of Agriculture Ministry also needs to be investigated”, Aleksic said.

He asked if the prosecution would interview the head of a department for battle against narcotics in Belgrade police Slobodan Milenkovic [the son of Senta Milenkovic, the chief bodyguard of Slobodan Milosevic in 1999-2000] who took part in the operation as a witness of Koluvija’s arrest.

The pro-regime media reported the alleged statements of the arrested Koluvija in police after the arrest on Wednesday and Thursday in which he claimed that he had no idea marijuana was being cultivated in Jovanjica and that “someone framed him”.