Serbian authorities arrested the country’s criminal police chief on Sunday, along with the commander in charge of fighting organised crime, on suspicion of abuse of office. Marko Kricak, 42, who heads the Criminal Police Directorate, and Bosko Sekulovic, who leads the Crime Suppression Service, were taken into custody on the order of prosecutors in Belgrade.
Belgrade’s chief prosecutor, Nenad Stefanovic, said the two were suspected of abusing their offices and failing to uphold their duties between May 12 and June 3, 2026, causing prejudice and serious harm to the rights of Veselin Milic, the former head of the Belgrade police department. The allegations surfaced in the investigation into the murder of Aleksandar Nesovic, a suspected underworld figure killed at a restaurant in Belgrade’s Senjak neighbourhood in May. Milic was arrested shortly after the murder on suspicion of failing to report the crime and assisting its perpetrator, and subsequently accused Kricak and Sekulovic of giving investigators incomplete and inaccurate information.
The timing is the story’s political charge. The arrests came one week after the October 25 snap parliamentary elections, in which the student-backed Student List won a historic victory and ended 14 years in power for Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party. Kricak is seen as a loyalist of the defeated president and was accused by student groups of brutality in the police response to the demonstrations that helped bring the government down.
Stefanovic addressed that reading directly and rejected it, telling journalists the arrest has no link with the result of the legislative elections and that the prosecutor’s office provided no connection to the students’ demands. The case is at the suspicion stage: neither man has been convicted of anything, and whether the prosecution proceeds, and whether it widens to other officials of the outgoing order, is what will establish whether Sunday was a routine criminal file or the start of a reckoning.