The former director of the Security Information Agency of Serbia, Aleksandar Vulin, said that he made the decision to resign independently because he believed “he has no right to sacrifice Serbia for the sake of remaining in that position.”
Vulin pointed out that he discussed everything with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and that Vučić left the decision to him, adding that there is no conflict between him and Vučić.
“I haven’t appeared in public for a year, because the director of the Security Agency can’t and shouldn’t do that, but now I can advertise. From the first day of my appointment as head, the pressure started. I decided to resign, not President Vučić,” he said.
Let us remind you that Vulin was placed on the list of persons under sanctions of the US administration for, as it is stated, “involvement in transnational organized crime, illegal operations related to narcotics and abuse of public office”.
In addition, the US authorities claim that Vulin abused his public office and helped the arms dealer Slobodan Tešić “so that his illegal shipments of weapons were transported across the borders of Serbia and provided Russia with a platform for further, malicious influence in the region”.
“President Vučić and I do not think the same about everything, but we agree that Serbia must be sovereign, neutral and must preserve good relations with Russia and China and preserve the Republic of Serbia,” Vulin told TV Pink.
Vučić previously stated that sanctions were not imposed against Aleksandar Vulin because of any crime or corruption, but, as he claims, because of his relationship with Russia.
Serbian media previously reported that Vulin is reputed to be one of Putin’s leading men in Serbia, which allegedly is not to the liking of Vučić himself. In a press release, Vulin stated that “the USA and the EU were looking for his head as a precondition for not imposing sanctions on Serbia”.
Vulin’s resignation was also demanded by the participants of the “Serbia against violence” protests that are taking place across Serbia, prompted by the murder of nine students and security guards at a Belgrade elementary school and eight young people in two villages near Belgrade a day later, Fena reports.
