Security Information Agency

BELGRADE - Director of the Security Information Agency (BIA) Aleksandar Djordjevic stated on Wednesday that Serbia invested considerable efforts in the fight against terrorism and Islamic extremism in the previous period.

Police investigate threats against Vucic

BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic says the Department for High Tech Crime launched an investigation into death threats made against Aleksandar Vucic.

These took place "via social networking websites" and were made "by a so-called Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization."

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday that the Department of High Tech Crime had begun an investigation into death threats made against Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic via social networking websites by the so-called Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic said in his annual report that in 2014, cooperation between the Security Information Agency (BIA) and the protector of citizens had been at the level of the best European and international practices.

BELGRADE - Bureau for Security Services Work Coordination staged a session on Friday to set up a permanent mixed working group for fight against terrorism in the Republic of Serbia and the meeting was attended by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

BELGRADE - The police, Security Information Agency and Tax Administration executed an action in which they seized the record 1,338 tons of tobacco and arrested 12 individuals who claimed illegal gains of over RSD 490 million.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday that the proposed changes to the Law on the Security Information Agency (BIA) were made based on the Constitutional Court's decision and Ombudsman's request and will make the agency's operations more transparent.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government adopted on Wednesday a set of amendments to the law on the Security Information Agency (BIA), the government office for media relations has stated.

The amendments refer to a number of provisions within the law that the Constitutional Court deemed were not in line with the Constitution.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Interior is the only system in the country where no reforms have been attempted since 2000, and the time has come for the state to introduce organisational and personnel changes in response to efforts to maintain the current state of affairs in the ministry, Momir Stojanovic, the chairman of the parliamentary committee on control of security services, said on

BELGRADE - Rodoljub Sabic, commissioner for information of public importance and personal data protection, ordered the Security Information Agency (BIA) to submit the data regarding the number of persons placed under surveillance in the course of 2013 to non-governmental organization Youth Initiative for Human Rights within five days.