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Serbia’s Security Information Agency, BIA said on Friday that it has filed espionage charges against a former Croatian police investigator and chief of Croatian National Police Union, Nikola Kajkic, and a former Serbian policeman, Drazen Letic.

The BIA said in a statement that Letic, “on orders from members of Croatian security and political structures”, was paid for gathering information that could be used against Serbia.

“Letic is part of a collaborative network… created and used in recent years by Nikola Kajkic… to gather intelligence information, to recruit people from this area to co-operate with the Croatian judiciary, and to obtain documentation to be misused for foreign policy purposes, in order to discredit the Republic of Serbia,” it said.

It alleged that Kajkic gathered information on Serbian investigations into crimes against Croats during the 1991-1995 war, particularly cases that were being dealt with by the Serbian war crimes prosecution.

Neither man has publicly reacted to the accusations so far.

Kajkic, as a police officer in Croatia’s Vukovar-Srijem county department, investigated executions by Serbia’s forces at Ovcara farm after the fall of the town of Vukovar in 1991, but was suspended from the police in July last year.

Police reported at the time that Kajkic was suspected of producing a false document while conducting a criminal investigation into the crimes.

Kajkic, who also heads a war veterans’ organisation, claimed he was suspended for “over-investigating war crimes”.