Former president of the municipality of Obrenovac and acting director of the EPS, Milorad Grcic, has had his detention suspended since February 14, 2025, due to suspicion that he participated in embezzlement at JP Elektroprivreda Srbije
The case that shakes Pirot and Niš raises the question of how basic legal regulations have been ignored in public companies for years. The nine arrested, including former managers and contractors, are suspected of having damaged the JP "Srbija Šume" with abuses, and diverted the benefits to the private company "21. Maj".
Two months after the arrest, the detention of the former mayor of Niš, Dragana Sotirovski, was extended for another 30 days.
Serbia has, to a greater or lesser extent, harmonized its legislation with relevant international standards in the field of corruption. The problem of impunity for the highest state officials does not usually lie in this, but in the lack of political will to deal with high level corruption. Precisely because they control the police, the prosecution and the court, which are often corrupt themselves. Due to the captivity of institutions, they do not have the capacity to conduct complex investigations and to bring powerful and rich people to court
The next time you hear someone in power invoking public trust to justify moves of dubious legality and cost effectiveness, remember this display of public opinion research data on some of the key issues for the fight against corruption
Corruption is the main problem of Serbia, according to 22 percent of citizens, while low income or poverty is the biggest problem for 10 percent of citizens, according to a survey, the results of which were presented by the organization Transparency Serbia
Lawyer Ivan Ninić says that such gifts are a serious precedent in the police, that they were apparently distributed to "loyalist police officers" and their superiors, and announces a report to the Internal Control Sector
The state continues its fight against corruption. Now the assistant of the mayor of Bor and the investor of the building near Manjež have been arrested. Judging by the actions so far, the state leadership is clean as a tear
The price of the acquired sound cannons is several times higher than the Americans paid for the same device. And they are also prohibited by law in Serbia
The European Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating the possible misuse of loans for the reconstruction of the railway and the railway station in Novi Sad
"Give us a roof over our heads anywhere, it doesn't have to be here, we are always on the military rankings, so we drop from second place to 25, from fifth to 11. How long?" say the homeless soldiers, tenants of the former "Jakub Kuburović" barracks, which was handed over to an investor.
A specter is circulating in Croatia, the specter of Laura Koveši. It seems that various ministers and other powerful people could end up behind the bars of the Remetinac prison. But will the lesson be learned? Difficult. The recidivism of Croatian politicians is incurable
In addition to Cicmil, five more people were arrested for embezzlement with public procurement
The indictment, which has yet to be confirmed, includes the investment development manager of JSC "Infrastruktur Železnica Srbije" Slobodanka Katanić, the president of the Commission for Technical Review Milutin Savović and member of that Commission Biljana Krstić
Continuation of the police operation to arrest corruption suspects in Serbia
The number of people arrested in the state anti-corruption campaign is only increasing day by day, but the new names only reveal - that they are actually known criminals, whose cases were just waiting in some drawers
Nemanja Stajić, the former head of the Secretariat for Legalization of Buildings in Belgrade, was arrested on suspicion of approving the legalization of a number of illegally built buildings in exchange for money. KRIK has been writing about Stajić and his brother for more than three years
In Serbia, no one knows what its president is talking about anymore, journalists are punished by God's justice, scandal-mongering magnates are declared saints, and public office holders spread public scandal. People - how long will we go like this
The status quo is unsustainable in the medium term - the current state growth model is being exhausted, and high corruption and low level of rule of law will continue to stifle the domestic private sector and occasionally lead to a collapse such as the one in EPS or the tragedy in Novi Sad. Therefore, the eventual, transitory economic costs of these protests are negligible in relation to the economic prosperity that would be made possible by the fulfillment of their demands.
In the Belgrade neighborhood of Zvezdara, a children's park cost 23 million dinars, which, as councilor Stefan Simić writes for the new issue of the weekly "Vreme", is more expensive than any other park in the city.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, once again announced a decisive fight against corruption, activating the prosecution and initiating arrests. However, experts point out that this is a temporary move, aimed at reducing political tensions, and not an essential solution to the problem of systemic corruption.
Two officials of the Chamber of Nurses were also on the list of those arrested for corruption. These are new in a series of arrests of state actions in the fight against corruption
Members of the Criminal Police Directorate arrested Dusan Rafailović on the order of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade
The arrest of Milorad Grčić and his associates in connection with corruption in the EPS caused numerous reactions in the public. While the government brags about the fight against corruption, it is paradoxical that these arrests right now with the announcement of Aleksandar Vučić actually prove what the students claim - that in Serbia politics controls the judiciary
On the order of the Special Department for Suppression of Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, 15 persons suspected of rigging public procurements in the Electric Power Company of Serbia were arrested
On the order of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, the police arrested Milorad Grcic on suspicion that, while he was the acting director of JP EPS, he and his associates damaged that public enterprise.
According to the Transparency International report, Serbia has once again fallen behind in the fight against corruption, taking 105th place among 180 ranked countries. In the region, only BiH is in a lower position than Serbia
