Records sent on Serbians killed in Bolivia

Bolivia's Interpol office has delivered copies of passports and fingerprints of Serbian citizens who were killed in the Friday, reports said. The data was sent to Serbian police (MUP), and concerns a narco-mafia shootout in Bolivia's eastern province Santa Cruz. Records sent on Serbians killed in Bolivia This has been confirmed by Police Director Milorad Veljovic. Veljovic said that verification of received records was under way, and added that the public will be informed about the findings in due time. Bolivian media had previously reported that three Serbian and three Bolivian citizens were killed and another four injured in the clashes of narco cartels. Analysis of the photocopies of passports, identity documents and fingerprints that Bolivia's Interpol office forwarded to Serbia showed that data from the photocopies of an ID and a set of fingerprints do not match the identity of Predrag Cankovic, whom some media have reported to have been killed while working as bodyguards in Bolivia, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic has said. For the other two citizens from Ruma, a town in Vojvodina, northern Serbia, who were killed in Bolivia on Friday, the fingerprints and the names in identity documents do match, Dacic said, and pointed out that the Interior Ministry will seek further clarification regarding the third person. Bolivia's Interpol office submitted to Serbia personal documents of Sasa Turcinovic, born on October 13, 1970, in Ruma, Bojan Bakula, born on December 1, 1981, also from Ruma, and Predrag Cankovic, born on July 25, 1972, in Germany, but with residence in Loznica, Western Serbia. Dacic recalled that a law which should regulate the private security sector has been discussed for several years, and said that the Interior Ministry is very interested that the private security sector be defined by law and form part of an overall security system. Dacic pointed out that people with criminal files will not be allowed to work in this sector, and said that he will insist that the training be conducted by the police or other state bodies. “I hope the law will soon be on the parliament's agenda,” Dacic said.

Records sent on Serbians killed in Bolivia

This has been confirmed by Police Director Milorad Veljović.

Veljović said that verification of received records was under way, and added that the public will be informed about the findings in due time.

Bolivian media had previously reported that three Serbian and three Bolivian citizens were killed and another four injured in the clashes of narco cartels.

Analysis of the photocopies of passports, identity documents and fingerprints that Bolivia's Interpol office forwarded to Serbia showed that data from the photocopies of an ID and a set of fingerprints do not match the identity of Predrag Canković, whom some media have reported to have been killed while working as bodyguards in Bolivia, Interior Minister Ivica Dačić has said.

For the other two citizens from Ruma, a town in Vojvodina, northern Serbia, who were killed in Bolivia on Friday, the fingerprints and the names in identity documents do match, Dačić said, and pointed out that the Interior Ministry will seek further clarification regarding the third person.

Bolivia's Interpol office submitted to Serbia personal documents of Sasa Turčinović, born on October 13, 1970, in Ruma, Bojan Bakula, born on December 1, 1981, also from Ruma, and Predrag Canković, born on July 25, 1972, in Germany, but with residence in Loznica, Western Serbia.

Dačić recalled that a law which should regulate the private security sector has been discussed for several years, and said that the Interior Ministry is very interested that the private security sector be defined by law and form part of an overall security system.

Dačić pointed out that people with criminal files will not be allowed to work in this sector, and said that he will insist that the training be conducted by the police or other state bodies.

“I hope the law will soon be on the parliament's agenda,” Dačić said.