Issue 504 - August 17, 2001

There is very good reason to suspect that Momir Gavrilovic was murdered because he revealed information about the connection between crime and people who are presently in power. He was in possession of incrimination information because of the many years he spent working for the State Security Service, because he mingled with various groups and because he kept good contacts with his colleagues in the police. However, according to VREME's sources, Gavrilovic was not in possession of documents proving the connection between government officials and the crime world that he could submit to advisors of FRY President Kostunica. Instead of that he gave a written plan of the restructuring of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

This newest plot on the Serbian political scene would even cheer up Hitchcock, which is no small task. Once, a long time ago, in the comedy "The Trouble with Harry", he passed one corpse from hand to hand, buried him and exhumed him and thickened the dispute on who Harry belongs to.

Can the political dispute that burst out after the murder of former SDB (the State Security) member, Momir Gavrilovic, result in the national strategy of corruption control? Can business oligarchies halt the 'imprisonment of the country, as it happened all other countries of transition?