Vladimir Cvijan

Disappearance and death In February 2021, Srđan Milivojević of the opposition Democratic Party, gave an interview stating that Cvijan could be one of the victims of Veljko Belivuk's criminal organization, which was accused of abductions and murders of several people in Serbia and Montenegro. In March 2021 another article in Tabloid Magazine revealed that they had discovered that Cvijan had been dead since early 2018. On 15 March 2021, journalist Predrag Popović of Tabloid Magazine published a document in which the Public Prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutors Office in Belgrade stated that the Prosecutor's Office had issued an order ordering the payment of costs to the Institute for Forensic Medicine of the Belgrade University for the autopsy of Cvijan's body on 20 November 2018. According to the President of the Bar Association of Belgrade, Jugoslav Tintor, Cvijan was removed from the active lawyer registry on 17 August 2018, after discovery that he had died on 5 January 2018, according to the death registry. The same day, the Higher Public Prosecutors Office revealed that Cvijan had drowned in the Danube river in Belgrade on 5 January 2018.

The circumstances of his death, as well as the reason why it was kept hidden from the public for more than 3 years, are still unclear, with some calling his death "mysterious". Cvijan's ex-wife and son were also unaware that he was dead and did not know where he might have been buried. On 23 March 2021, it was revealed that Cvijan was cremated and buried on 19 January 2018 at the Lešće cemetery, and the urn with his remains is only identified by his first name. The same day, the pro-regime newspaper Srpski Telegraf published the alleged autopsy results of Cvijan's body from 2018 which stated that the death occurred due to drowning and that alcohol was found in Cvijan's body.

None of the officials and membership of the ruling SNS, in which Cvijan was a high-ranking official and a candidate for party leader in 2013, a few months before his disappearance, have commented on the case until, two weeks after the public discovery of Cvijan's death, long-term leader of the party and current President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić gave a statement saying that Cvijan was not murdered. Opposition activist, former head of the Military Security Agency, founding member and MP of the ruling SNS, Momir Stojanović, stated on 17 March 2021, that Cvijan knew a lot about the activities of the SNS-led government and that he most likely "suffered" because of that knowledge. According to Croatian journalist , Cvijan was murdered because he had compromising information about the government and its connections to the organized crime, and that Cvijan had left him a number of compromising documents.

Personal life Besides his native Serbian, Cvijan spoke English and Russian. He was divorced and had one child.

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