The former director of the Serbian Security and Information Agency (BIA), Aleksandar Vulin, was awarded the Medal for Cooperation of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow.
At the headquarters of the Federal Security Service in the Russian capital, Vulin was honored by the director of the FSB, Army General Aleksandar Bortnikov, for his “exceptional professionalism and contribution to cooperation between the Serbian and Russian services.”
At the beginning of November last year, Vulin resigned from the post of BIA director after the United States (U.S.) Treasury put him on the list of sanctions in July due to his involvement in international organized crime, drug trafficking, and ties to Russia.
While he was the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vulin coordinated the wiretapping of Russian dissidents in Belgrade, which later led to their arrest. Belgrade was in the focus of the international security scene because Vulin put the country’s security at the service of Vladimir Putin’s dictatorial regime and thus helped him deal with political opponents.
Vulin was the main actor in the international scandal when in May 2021 a group of Russian dissidents led by Vladimir Kara-Murz and Andrei Pivovarov stayed in Belgrade, Klix.ba writes.
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