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In the case of Jovanjic, these days, in addition to coups, another topic of interest to the government and pro-government tabloids is current: the polygraph. According to the announcement of the President of Serbia, two policemen who participated in the arrest of the owner of Jovanjica, Predrag Koluvija, could attack him again. But government officials appear to be losing confidence in the polygraph, which they previously cited as key in investigations.
A polygraph is not a court test. However, for years Aleksandar Vučić presented the lie detector to the public as the ultimate test. More often in political confrontations.
“I recognize the polygraph, it is recognized by the largest number of services in the world (…) It is impossible to mount a polygraph, so I am certainly talking about other cases. “Unlike them, I’m ready to get a polygraph,” Vucic previously said.
And he went to the polygraph in 2015 to prove that he never met the former editor of the Kurir newspaper, who accused him of blackmail. After it was announced that Vučić passed the polygraph, the entire case was terminated.
The then Police Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic concluded: “The Prime Minister volunteered for the detector and proved he was telling the truth.”
The scandals changed, but the lie detector appeared as a common extra in almost everyone.
In the middle of the investigation into the Jovanjic case, when Predrag Koluvija was arrested and charged with cultivating about four tons of marijuana and skunk, Vučić offered that both he and his brother Andrej would go to the polygraph.
“No one has called me yet, no one has called my brother yet, we are both ready to do a polygraph,” the president said.
The then Minister of Police was also willing to see if he was telling the truth.
“Folks, I’m ready to go to the polygraph and I wouldn’t consider it a pressure type at all,” Stefanović said.
Politicians volunteered, but the police went to the polygraph
Politicians volunteered, however, instead of them, the police officers went to the polygraph and arrested Koluvija and discovered, according to the indictment, one of the largest cannabis drug factories in Europe.
It should be recalled that last January, the head of the Belgrade police anti-narcotics department, Slobodan Milenković, and his colleague, the head of operations, Dušan Mitic, were twice in a lie detector, which in both times he proved they were telling the truth. However, this time, a polygraph is no longer sufficient evidence for Vučić.
“They are trying to make two policemen heroes for two days. We will see what they said the truth and what they did not, in the real polygraph test and with the real polygraph questions, although that is not a sufficient means of proof at all, “Vučić changed the board.
The polygraph “defended” Radoičić
However, for Vučić, the polygraph was crucial in publicly presenting controversial Kosovo businessman Milan Radoičić as completely innocent of the 2018 murder of opposition politician Oliver Ivanović.
“Milan Radojicic accepted the polygraph examination and passed the polygraph. He went through the murder of Oliver Ivanović,” Vučić stated at the time.
Thanks to the polygraph, the former director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Đurić, was convinced of Radoičić’s innocence.
“Milan Radoičić passed the polygraph. So, he is not guilty, he is not responsible for the murder of Oliver Ivanović, for the preparation and everything else,” Đurić established at the time.
Milovic passed the polygraph and yet was replaced
The lie detector does not carry the same weight for politicians when it comes to police officers. The fact that the polygraph showed that he was telling the truth was not enough not to replace the former head of the Directorate of Criminal Police, Rodoljub Milović.
Namely, in 2014, the drug dealer Darko Šarić accused him of taking bribes. Saric also passed the polygraph. This was reported as breaking news by all the pro-government tabloids.
What they kept silent, and Milović later stated in an interview with NIN and KRIK, is that the lie detector determined that Šarić was telling the truth when he said that he never gave Mayor Milović money.
