By: Dr Metod Berlec
In the magazine Demokracija we note that the traffic accident involving President Nataša Pirc Musar in the Kastelec tunnel still largely remains a mystery after almost a month.
There are no recordings or photographs; the Motorway Company of Slovenia (DARS) is still “preparing” answers on whether it will release them to the public, and the prosecution and police are still withholding the copy of the accident report. Our editorial office requested it, but both requests were denied. In the foreground, however, has emerged the Russian friend of Nataša Pirc Musar – Viktorija Krivolucka, who spoke for the bulletin of the deep state. And the intelligence‑business network stretching from Slovenia to Russian President Vladimir Putin is resonating strongly in numerous foreign, especially European, media. The online portal Europa.Today.it, for example, wrote in the introduction to the article “Slovenian president accused of Russian espionage”: “The Slovenian head of state is suspected of cooperating with Kremlin intelligence services. Slovenian intelligence services will now have to provide information on possible foreign influence on Slovenia’s sovereignty and national security, particularly from Russia and Israel.”
Of course, as Igor Omerza notes in an interview for our magazine, Krivolucka denies “being a Russian intelligence officer or involved in Russian intelligence services (Russia still essentially has a political police!), but agents are not expected to publicly confirm such suspicions anyway.” He adds: “I allow for the possibility that she is being greatly wronged, but unfortunately the indications point to a web of coincidences that is hard to believe are merely coincidences.” One can undoubtedly agree with him, something that would surely be confirmed by Slovenian officer, Yugoslav military attaché in Berlin, and legendary intelligence operative Vladimir Vauhnik (1896–1955), if he were still alive. In his memoirs (Under Cover – Watching for Hitler’s Plans and Under Cover – Among Traitors, Spies and Heroes), which I devoured during my vacation, he vividly revealed how, at the outbreak of the Second World War, he received sensitive information from overly talkative prominent representatives of the National Socialist regime of Hitler’s Third Reich. In large part, this is how he learned in time about the Axis powers’ plan to attack Yugoslavia (6 April 1941). Meanwhile, we have a president who counts as her best friend a Russian woman who was previously the intimate partner of Roman Jeglič, a former prominent criminal investigator of the previous totalitarian regime, who fled to Russia in the mid‑1990s to escape justice.
To divert attention from the security risk posed by the president’s suspicious friendship and the business connections of her husband Aleš Musar, Miha Brejc stepped in, the son of Slovenian socio‑political worker and communist activist Toma Brejc – Pavle, who allegedly launched an online petition for the dismissal of the Speaker of the National Assembly, Zoran Stevanovič, on his own initiative. But the petition turned out to be a farce, as anyone could sign it without serious verification, even “Vladimir Putin”. And where was Brejc when Urška Klakočar Zupančič brought embarrassment to the office of the Speaker of the National Assembly in the previous term?