Nova.rs: Inspector who discovered marijuana farm in Serbia moved from post

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Sources from Serbia's Interior Ministry confirmed to Nova.rs that a high-ranked police officer who discovered the Jovanjica marijuana plantation and confiscated over four tonnes of the illegal plant was temporarily moved to another job.

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According to the sources, Slobodan Milenkovic, the Belgrade Police Anti-Drug Department head, would be an inspector in the Department for War Crimes.

It's unknown if the transfer is signed since Police Commissioner Vladimir Rebic is on vacation.

Milenkovic has recently refused the third polygraph test, together with Dusan Mitic, the chief of the operations in the Anti-Drug Department.

Also, on Friday, the former state secretary in the Interior Ministry, Dijana Hrkalovic, was taken into custody and the police were searching her apartment.

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Nova.rs has learned that the prosecutors for organised crime are interrogating her.

Hrkalovic had earlier refused a polygraph test related to the affair of alleged wiretapping of President Vucic.

She is believed to have been the most powerful woman in the Ministry and a protegee of the then Interior now Defence Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic.

Later on Friday, Vucic said that "someone from the police spoke out" and that led to Hrkalovic's apperhansion.

She is questioned related to a killing in 2017 and the release of the main suspect, after someone allegedly tempered with evidence.

The two passed the tests twice, and their boss Rebic said they enjoyed his complete trust.

In a twist, Predrag Koluvija, the arrested owner of the plant, said to be largest in Europe, where Milenkovic and his policemen found over four tonnes of marijuana, was released from custody, placed under house arrest with an electronic ankle tag. Soon after the release, he gave an interview in which he alleged he was offered some benefits if he testified he had links with President Aleksandar Vucic's brother Andrej.

Rebic said Koluvija was talking nonsense.
Nevertheless, Milenkovic and Mitic were called for another lie detector testing, this time alongside Rebic, who supported them earlier.

Some high state officials and tabloids under the regime's control constantly attack Milenkovic and Mitic, but the two have not reacted so far because, as the Interior Ministry has said, they have continued to work on the Jovanjica case to discover the details about all those linked to it, primarily people from the state institutions and security services, who the Jovanjica second indictment is dealing with.

Nova.rs was told the two inspectors would address the public through their attorneys "when the time comes."

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