DSS "had nothing to do" with ex-C Market director

DSS "had nothing to do" with ex-C Market director

BELGRADE -- No DSS party official has never been in any kind of agreement with Slobodan Radulović about anything concerning his business, says Miloš Aligrudić.

The senior DSS official on Monday denied media reports that a Memorandum of Understanding, by which the C Market retail chain was taken over, was signed by anyone from the government headed by Vojislav Koštunica.

"We're completely calm and it is good that Slobodan Radulovič is finally in Serbia in order to answer the questions of the court," Aligrudić told reporters, adding that the DSS would respond to "a possible invitation of the relevant state organ."

The media in recent days reported that Radulović could present evidence and documentation related to the C Market case than would accuse former Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica.

Aligrudić noted that Radulović has been under investigation from the time when the DSS was in power and that the proceedings were initiated at that time.

Radulović fled Serbia in 2006 after he was accused of incurring damages of EUR 30 million to the retail chain. A year later he stated, in a letter addressed to the Anti-Corruption Council, that the agreement on the sale of C Market was signed "on the order" of Prime Minister Koštunica.

In the letter, published by several media outlets, Radulović claimed that a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by himself and by Milan Beko and Miroslav Mišković "on August 19, 2005, at the initiative of Koštunica, whose order was relayed by then Interior Minister Dragan Jočić during a conversation in his office, which was attended by Secretary of the Government Dejan Mihajlov, and the UBPOK chief."