Serbian Prime Minister’s Advisor Talks about Campaign against Him

Serbian Prime Minister’s Advisor Talks about Campaign against Him

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Ivica Toncev who is engaged as an advisor for national security in the Serbian Prime Minister’s Office talks about campaign against him in some Serbian media.

Toncev stresses that in the first half of 2013 he was under huge media pressure with the aim of discrediting his professional engagement in the Government of Serbia. OCCRP and the Centre for Investigative Reporting in Serbia (CINS) accused Toncev of maintaining long-term relationships with several mobsters.

The campaign was followed with several researches within Serbian administration regarding these accusations. Mr. Toncev didn’t oppose to any of these researches. The final results of these measures were the evidences of Toncev’s innocence.

‘This campaign is organized because someone wants to make damage to my social and professional reputation. I don’t belong to any of the interest groups present in Serbia and that’s the reason why I was under this pressure. I am not involved in any of irregular privatizations within Serbia also. One of the reasons for that dishonorable campaign was also an attempt to discredit Serbian head of Government Mr. Dacic. I also wonder why I was under three checks and some other ‘interesting persons’ were spared?’, said Toncev.

Obviously, Toncev wants to highlight the fact that the whole campaign against him was orchestrated but that there were no proves that it correlates with reality.