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Nikola Kajkic. Photo courtesy of N1.

Nikola Kajkic, a currently suspended police investigator and chief of the Croatian National Police Union, on Monday dismissed allegations by the Serbian intelligence service that he was involved in a spy network in Serbia.

Kajkic described the claims as “nonsense, lies and fabrications”.

Serbia’s Security Information Agency, BIA, said on Friday that it has filed espionage charges against Kajkic and a former Serbian policeman, Drazen Letic.

The BIA claimed that the two men were “part of a collaborative network” that was gathering information in Serbia and passing it to Croatian intelligence.

It alleged that Kajkic gathered information on Serbian investigations into crimes against Croats during the 1991-95 war, particularly cases that were being dealt with by the Serbian war crimes prosecution.

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.

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

Kajkic told a press conference on Monday that the aim of his visits to Serbia was to find the graves of wartime missing persons, and that because of this, he spoke with anyone involved in the killing of “our [Croatian] people”.

“If it is a sin in Serbia to get information about where the missing [persons] are, then it shameful for the state,” he said.

He insisted that he had nothing to do with Croatian intelligence, and claimed that after being suspended by the Croatian police, Serbian intelligence offered him money to co-operate and also asked him about statements that Serbs gave to him about the Ovcara case.

The Croatian Security Intelligence Agency, SOA, responded to the Serbian allegations on Saturday, saying that this was “a fabricated criminal charge seeking to divert the attention of the domestic and international public from serious affairs in Serbia, including suspicions of corruption, the illegal trafficking of weapons from Serbia and the exposure of a video tape in which a Russian intelligence officer, a member of the [Russian military intelligence service] GRU, hands over money to an officer of the Serbian Armed Forces”.