When Belgrade Police Chief Veselin Milic allegedly tried to broker peace between two rival underworld figures — Sasa Vukovic and Aleksandar Nesovic — at an upmarket restaurant in one of the Serbian capital's wealthiest neighborhoods on May 12, the meeting ended in bloodshed.
According to prosecutors' initial account, Vukovic shot Nesovic at least ten times. Nesovic's body was discovered several days later, buried inside a barrel outside Belgrade.
Investigators initially alleged that Milic had helped cover up the crime.
The case unfolded in mid-May and quickly dominated headlines in Serbia.
For many Serbs, the most disturbing question was why the head of the country's largest police department was meeting two prominent figures from the criminal underworld in the first place.
