Stefanovic denies police or security agency wiretapped Pajtic

Stefanovic denies police or security agency wiretapped Pajtic

No state institution, including the MUP and the BIA have ever wiretapped Bojan Pajtic or Lidija Udovicki, says Nebojsa Stefanovic.

The interior minister said on Wednesday that the publication of transcripts of conversations between the two on the Teleprompter website was "a fabricated story" and part of a plan to bring down Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

- No order was ever given to wiretap. And the paper itself that was published does not look anything like documentation from the MUP or the BIA - said Stefanovic.

The minister also announced that everything will be investigated, and that Teleprompter editor Danilo Redzepovic will be asked by the police to explain how he obtained the transcript.

Earlier in the day DS leader and head of the Vojvodina provincial government Bojan Pajtic confirmed the authenticity of the transcript and said it was proof he was being wiretapped, and a reason for the government to collapse.

Stefanovic said that the police have already received an order from the Prosecutor's Office to carry out an investigation, and repeatedly described Redzepovic as "a close friend of Pajtic."

- Although we have never wiretapped Pajtic, we saw bags of documents on intercepted communications of Aleksandar Vucic, especially in the period from 2008 to 2012. I expect you will see in the coming days what it looks like. Vucic did not want to talk about it, but it was a brutal violation of all his rights. The (former) DS regime followed and listened in on the private conversations of their political opponent - said Stefanovic.

The minister added that "everything will be checked and will not just go away."<...