Following Sunday's meeting of the National Security Council, Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said the president and his family had been illegally wiretapped 1,572 times. The minister specified that some high-placed Interior Ministry officials were involved and that the collected information had been sent to the organised crime department of the prosecutor's office.
"The wiretapping of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is an attempted coup", Brnabic told the broadcaster TV Pink.
The official went on to say that the investigation should reveal the alleged coup's entire mechanism down to "the last rivet".
"I think this is a cabal of people at the security services, first of all, the Interior Ministry, as well as [the ruling] Serbian Progressive Party, to which I belong. This cabal also includes criminal organisations, mafia, and some of the media in Serbia, as well as a part of the justice system, and, without a doubt, foreign [intelligence] agencies are involved. Their goal was to destabilise Serbia by removing Vucic, physically or otherwise", the prime minister added.
Meanwhile, Milos Vucevic, the deputy chairman of the Serbian Progressive Party and mayor of Novi Sad, went so far as to tell journalists that the conspiracy against the president includes ministers, directors, and other party functionaries.
