Degraded after revealing Saric

Ivica Petrovic led ‘Balkan Warrior’ and ended in Obrenovac Degraded after revealing Saric

Ivica Petrovic, former BIA deputy chief was appointed the BIA agent in Obrenovac a few days before the arrest of Darko Saric.

The reasons for Petrovic’s transfer are not known. He operationally led the action of revealing the international cocaine smuggling and launched financial investigation against Saric’s clan. He supervised all secret measures that led to identifying associates of the drug lord from Pljevlja and what is even more important, the individuals working in state institutions who were leaking information to that drug clan and ended ‘on ice’.

He started his career in the State Security and then moved to the Home Ministry where he used to be promoted all the time.

At first he was the chief of the UBPOK Intelligence Department. During the ‘Sward’ police action he participated in revealing the Jotka’s clan from Krusevac and arrest of Ljubomir Vuckovic, the Supreme Court judge. At the time when Dragan Jocic was the police minister, Petrovic was appointed chief-off-Staff of the UBPOK Intelligence Department. His next promotion was the post of the chief-of-staff of the Intelligence Service and an undercover investigator.

In 2008 Petrovic was appointed the BIA deputy chief. As the second man of the BIA Petrovic was in charge of all operational activities by the Agency on locating Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, but also of the most important BIA action – ‘Balkan Worrier’.

After change of power in 2012, both Petrovic and his then chief Sasa Vukadinovic were recalled.