Serbian drug lord Sreten Josic, told a Belgrade Court that between 1994 and 1995 the Serbian government assigned him to penetrate the mujahideen bases in Bulgaria.

The infamous drug boss stands trial on charges of instigating and committing murder back in 1995.

During his Wednesday hearing at the Belgrade District Court, Sreten Josic, aka Joka Amsterdam, denied the murder charges and confessed that between 1993 and 1994 he had been working for the Serbian Government and was assigned to edge his way into the Bulgarian bases of the Muslim jihad warriors.

According to Josic, during that time, a large group of mujahideens were trained in Bulgaria and later sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“The Serbian authorities wanted me to find out when and how they crossed the Bulgarian-Serbian border so that they could arrest them upon entering Serbia,” Josic told the court on Wednesday.

The defendant explained that in 1994 he asked for political refuge in Bulgaria as his life was threatened by the then Serbian Deputy Interior Minister Radovan Stojicic who had asked the Bulgarian authorities “to deliver Josic to him in return for a big favor.”

“During that period I was under the protection of the Bulgarian State Security Agency,” said Josic in court.

At the beginning of April 2009, Sreten Josic made headlines in Bulgaria, telling a Belgrade court he enjoyed the protection of high-ranking officials here, citing among others the name of the then Interior Chief Secretary Borisov.

At that time, Borisov, by then Mayor of Sofia, vehemently denied the allegations, accusing the former ruling three-party coalition of crafting a long-term strategy to discredit him.

When asked if he was aware of the rumors that Josic had ordered his assassination, Borisov said he had just done his job when Josic was arrested and extradited to the Netherlands at the request of the Dutch police.