Although it has been almost three months since Aleksandar Vulin left the post of director of the Security Information Agency of Serbia (BIA), his recent statements seem to suggest that he has not even left this position, writes Nova.rs. Only in the last two statements, which concern the directives regarding the arrest of politician Nikola Sandulović and the ban on singer Selma Bajrami from entering Serbia, Vulin said that they were passed on his initiative and before he left the agency in November. Connoisseurs of the situation say otherwise – Vulin still wonders and behaves like the director of the BIA.
After the decision of the USA to put him on the list of sanctions and rather critical comments of the ambassador of this country in Serbia, Vulin left the position of the first person of the BIA. He made such a decision on November 3, after which he actively joined the SNS campaign for the parliamentary elections.
Although he abstained from statements and public appearances for almost a month and a half, Vulin again came into the public spotlight after the decision to arrest the politician and leader of the minor Republican Party. He was in Kosovo at the beginning of January and visited the grave of Adem Jašari, after which he was arrested by the Serbian authorities.
For days it was unclear what happened in this case, the international community was also alarmed, and we just heard the voice of the authorities from the mouth of the former director of the BIA, writes Nova.rs.
On January 6, Vulin confirmed that Sandulović was detained on his orders.
To this day, it remains unclear how it is possible that Vulin gave the order to arrest Sandulović at the beginning of January, and he resigned at the beginning of November. So, two full months of vacuum between the two decisions.
Two weeks after the decision to arrest Sandulović, a directive was issued to ban singer Selma Bajrami from entering Serbia because of a recent video in which she showed a double-headed eagle.
Vulin confirmed that he personally forbade Selma Bajrami from entering Serbia: “For whom ‘Great Albania’ is proud, Serbia should not be a stall for him”
Vulin again took responsibility and said that it was only his decision. Because of just these two cases, the question arises whether Vulin is informally still the first man of the BIA and how such a long time gap appeared between his departure from the security structures and the concrete moves that were implemented after January 1, 2024. The Sandulović and Bajrami cases cast doubt on who makes decisions in the security structures.
Former director of the Military Security Agency (VBA), Momir Stojanović, tells Nova.rs that the impression is that the new director of the BIA was fictitiously appointed, but that everything is still decided by Aleksandar Vulin.
“Although Vulin resigned a few months ago, his public appearances are becoming more frequent. People in the know say that his resignation is fictitious and claim that Vulin still shows up at the BIA directorate in a vehicle with tinted windows, and that he manages from the shadows. That is the principle of how to deceive the public and foreigners, directed by the state. “His advertisements only show us that Vulin is still pulling the strings and making decisions in the BIA, while the other is fictitiously appointed,” explains Stojanović.
Commenting on Vulin’s statement where he allegedly personally made the decision to ban the singer from entering the country, Stojanović underlines that this order is also disputed from a legal point of view.
“This is primarily about illegal acts. Authorized bodies can ask for a ban on the entry of a person into the territory of Serbia, but the MUP makes the decision. The director of the BIA cannot issue an order to ban a person from entering Serbia. Such an interpretation shows us elementary ignorance of the law,” explains Stojanović for Nova.
We remind you that Vulin said that he made the decision to leave the BIA independently and said that he “has no right to sacrifice Serbia”.
