Radan Katnić: Prosecutor Šoškić is persecuting my family

The prosecutor at the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office Sanja Ražnatović dismissed the criminal complaint against Radan Katnić, the son of former Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnić, whom the Special State Prosecutor’s Office had attempted to accuse of illegally possessing a firearm.

On 30 December last year, the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the criminal complaint against Katnić, explaining that there was no reasonable suspicion that he had committed the criminal offence of illegal possession of a weapon or any other offence prosecuted ex officio. The decision was delivered to Katnić’s attorney Ljubomir Raković.

The reasoning of the decision shows that the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office opened the case based on documentation submitted by the Special State Prosecutor’s Office in October 2024.

Katnić was questioned almost a year later, on 19 September 2025, when he denied the allegations in the criminal complaint before Prosecutor Ražnatović.

RUTHLESS ABUSE

His statement unequivocally indicates that he and his family were subjected to ruthless abuse during a police operation ordered by Prosecutor Šoškić. The entire operation was monitored by Šoškić himself, as well as by the head of the Special Police Department Predrag Šuković, who were in constant telephone communication with the inspector leading the operation.

As stated in the case file reviewed by the ETV Portal, Radan Katnić requested that his statement be entered into the record in full due to the inconveniences his family has been experiencing since the arrest of his father on 14 April 2024.

- I reiterate that I have never committed any criminal offence attributed to me by the accusation that I unlawfully possessed a „Zastava“ pistol. This is easily established by the fact that the pistol, with a valid firearm permit in my father’s name, was found in my father’s apartment in Dalmatinska Street - he stated during questioning.

He said that Special Prosecutor Miloš Šoškić abused his official position, claiming that he „is conducting illegitimate and illegal persecution of members of my immediate family in every possible way, for personal reasons stemming from a previous conflict with my father, who was his superior at the Special State Prosecutor’s Office“.

He described in detail how, on 14 April 2024, police officers arrived at the door of his apartment at six o’clock in the morning, where he lives with his wife and daughter. He stated that masked police officers carrying long-barrel automatic weapons („Heckler & Koch“) forced him into his father’s apartment on the same floor. He later realized that the weapons carried by the police officers were loaded, with rounds chambered and ready for use.

- It goes without saying that I was in my father’s apartment against my will and under duress, and in the same situation, as I later learned, were my wife and my four-month-old daughter. There was no search warrant for my apartment, nor was I ever covered by an order of Special Prosecutor Miloš Šoškić, neither then nor now… Two inspectors entered the apartment together with officers in uniform, and one of them asked me whether I was Milivoje Katnić’s son, to which I answered affirmatively. After that, I asked what was happening with my family and why I had been forcibly brought in when this was not the apartment in which I live - Radan Katnić testified.

According to the record, an inspector replied that a search was underway by order of Prosecutor Šoškić in connection with proceedings initiated against his father and showed him the document. Katnić asked to see his wife and daughter, but was not allowed to do so, he was told that they were merely technically carrying out the search and repeatedly informed that everything was being done under the instructions and orders of Prosecutor Šoškić. He later learned from his wife that two female inspectors had kept her and the baby in their apartment, sitting on the bed, and did not allow her to move around or use her phone.

ŠOŠKIĆ AND ŠUKOVIĆ MONITORED THE OPERATION

Radan Katnić also pointed out that after he identified himself, the masked officers became more restrained, addressed him with respect, and explained that they had not known who they were coming to, that the operation was organized by the prosecutor, and that they usually act in cases involving serious criminals and murderers.

- Only then did they put down their weapons. From the moment they entered the apartment, the inspectors were in constant telephone contact with Predrag Šuković and Miloš Šoškić. I know this because I know both of them and recognize their voices - Radan Katnić said.

Twenty minutes after entering the apartment, the police asked him whether there was any weapon in his father’s apartment. He replied that he did not know and requested to speak with his father. His father told him that there was an old pistol in the wardrobe and explained where the key was.

He stated that he found the key, opened the wardrobe, found the pistol and the firearm permit, placed them on the table, and that the inspectors then put them in a bag. He continued to sit, as he said, and several times pointed out to the inspector that he was being held there unlawfully, to which he was told that „he would not move from the chair until the search was completed and until Milivoje arrived“.

- The inspector told me that my wife and daughter were fine and that nothing would happen to them. He addressed me politely and consulted Šoškić on everything. After four hours had passed, I asked whether the search would finally begin, to which they replied that it would not, because my father was unable to come - the younger Katnić stated.

Half an hour later, they confirmed that his father would not come, but did not inform him of the reason.

After some time, according to Katnić, a proposal arrived from Prosecutor Šoškić for him to sign a statement declaring himself the user of the apartment, after which his wife and child would be released.

In his statement to Prosecutor Ražnatović, he emphasized that he asked the inspectors several times whether signing a statement that he was the user of his father’s apartment could have any consequences for him. After consulting the prosecutor, a police officer told him that Šoškić guaranteed it was merely a technical and formal matter needed to obtain a search warrant in ccordance with the law.

WIFE AND CHILD „HELD CAPTIVE“

- With his explicit promise that my wife and child would be released, I agreed to be taken to the premises of the Special Police Department, where a statement was waiting for me, which I only signed and did not read, as I was told that it merely stated that I was the user of the apartment. When they brought me back home, they kept their promise and released my wife and child - the younger Katnić said.

As the search still did not begin, he was informed that, based on his signature, a new warrant was being requested. At that point, he was allowed to use his phone.

At 6:00 p.m., Radan Katnić left his father’s apartment, and the search was conducted in the presence of two witnesses. The police did not find anything illegal in Milivoje Katnić’s apartment.

Radan Katnić was categorical in stating that during the search of his father’s apartment he was held under duress and against his will, and that all elements of the criminal offences of coercion and unlawful self-help were thereby met.

The harassment by the Special State Prosecutor’s Office against former Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnić and his family has continued since his arrest in April 2024. There were attempts to deprive the Katnić family of their property as well, but the Supreme Court did not allow this.