Milan Radojcic is a former vice-chairman of the largest party of the Kosovo Serbs in Kosovo, “Serbska Lista”, as well as a businessman who is mentioned by the authorities in Pristina and Belgrade in a completely different context, according to Radio Free Europe.
For Kosovo, he is a wanted fugitive, someone who “controls Serbian criminal groups in the north” and is behind the “tension and crisis” in the region.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, on the other hand, described him as someone who “protects the Serbs in Kosovo” and stands “first on the front line” of the Serbs in northern Kosovo.
The US Treasury Department blacklisted Radojcic for December 2021 for his involvement in international crime and corruption.
Kosovo’s Interior Minister Djelal Svechlja accused him of organizing and participating in the attack on Kosovo police on September 24, when one Kosovo policeman and three Serbs were killed. On September 26, Svechlja published a video that he said was “another proof of his terrorist activity against the Republic of Kosovo.”
Today, Radojčić took full responsibility for the events of Sunday and submitted his resignation from the post of deputy chairman of Srabska Lista, which is close to the ruling party in Belgrade.
Radojcic is a co-owner of the construction company INKOP, which also owns the hotel company Dolly Bell. Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj referred to him as the man in northern Kosovo “who should be asked about everything”. Radojcic also met with another former Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, to discuss the situation of the Serbs in Kosovo.
Milan Radojčić became deputy chairman of Srbiska Lista in 2018, a few months after the murder of Serbian opposition politician Oliver Ivanovic, for which Radojčić was accused along with three other ethnic Serbs. His mandate has been extended in 2021.
Kosovo police made two unsuccessful attempts to arrest Radojcic. On November 23, 2018, he was suspected of murdering Oliver Ivanovic, but the police were unable to find Radojcic. He denies having anything to do with the death of the Kosovo Serb politician. In February 2022, police stopped Radojčić at the Brnjak border crossing in northern Kosovo, but he fled back to Serbia, and two police officers were dismissed over the incident.
Radojcic attended the barricades erected by Kosovo Serbs over the government’s decision to remove license plates from Kosovo cities issued in Serbia in 2022.
In Serbia, he is protected by President Aleksandar Vucic, who says Radojcic is one of the people “keeping Serbia in Kosovo.” The president also defends him in the accusation against him for the murder of Oliver Ivanovich. In 2021, however, Vucic also claimed that he never spoke to Radojcic unless he attended his meetings with Srabska Lista. Radojcic is believed to have attended almost every meeting ever organized with the president.
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2023-09-29 17:20:00
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