President Vucic: I support proposal to investigate how officials managed to buy villas abroad

Photo: Tanjug/Rade Prelic

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said today that he fully supports the proposal made by the leader of the opposition Democratic Party (DS) that an investigation should be launched into how officials bought villas abroad, and reiterated that he does not own any property outside of Serbia.

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Vucic was on Pink TV when he was asked to comment on the DS leader saying that the investigation should be launched, claiming that houses have been bought in Trieste (Italy), Greece, France, Spain. The repsident said that this was "an exceptional idea coming from ​​the leader of a once-respectable party" - and that he fully supports it.

"I think it's super important to look into that. Because whoever has held public office and who could somehow acquire the wealth needed (to buy) villas in Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, anywhere. Maybe they earned the money doing some other job, but it's good for him to tell people, because I think it's fair that people know that," said Vucic.

The president added that he has no problem with that, and that he himself owns neither a house nor an apartment anywhere outside of Serbia, while his father renovated a small family home in the village of Cipuljic near Bugojno (in Bosnia and Herzegovina) - one of eight or nine homes belonging to the Vucic family that were burned down or demolished there.

"We don't own holiday homes in Montenegro, nor in Croatia, thank God, nor anywhere else," said Vucic.

He stressed that he would like the investigation to spread to locations around the world because, "then people would see that I was telling the truth."

"I tried to find out about one of those places because I was atonished when I saw how many Serbians wanted to get the 'golden passports' from other (countries). I guess people have some needs, although our passport is better than that country's passport, it's worth more than that country's passport and you can go to more places without a visa than if you have that country's passport. I was astonished by how many of our citizens buy real estate (there), but that shows that life is good here," stated Vucic.

Addressing the campaign run by his political opponents, he pointed out that they resort to many lies, such as the one about the use of a sonic cannon (during anti-government protests last year).

"Now, look at their statements, the disgraceful statements given to the police, 'It wasn't me (who made the claim), I saw that one write it, then I protected my client, then I protected my students, I protected I don't know who' - and it's nobody. And nobody is who? That's what the prosecutor will say. The prosecutor and the police are working and they will do it, show and prove to the whole world where the falsehood started," said Vucic.

He added that some very interesting information will be revealed.

"How they talked from certain channels, how they added and made things up - (claimed) it was infrared activity, this, the other. There will be very interesting information for the public to learn," stated Vucic.

When asked if someone will be held accountable for that, Vucic said that someone will certainly be held accountable in the case of a made-up death that supposedly happened in Valjevo (during one of the protests).

"Valjevo, the whole case of the fabricated death and serious injuries of a young man from Valjevo, which was supposed to lead to a civil war, and the whole story about Jovanjica (drug farm), which we have now fully established, we will soon present to you with the evidence. Some representatives of the state authorities, that is, the Security and Information Agency, participated in that dirty business," said President Vucic.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)