A court in Madrid has opened an investigation into the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez for corruption and influence peddling, prompting him to question whether he should resign. He decided, however, to remain in office
A Russian-funded propaganda network that spreads an anti-Ukrainian narrative and allegedly pays certain European politicians to represent Russian interests has been busted
A corruption and money laundering investigation has been launched over suspicions about the RFEF's deal with Saudi Arabia for the Spanish Super Cup to be played in the Middle Eastern country
On the Transparency list, Serbia stands in a stable and desperate position because it is not known how public money is spent. "Now we got something even worse - Expo 2027 - under which all kinds of things have been subsumed, which allows some 17 billion euros to be spent again without the application of anti-corruption rules," Zlatko Minić told "Vreme"
Serbia is 104th out of 180 countries in the world according to the perception of corruption, Transparency International announced.
The money was intended to buy 100.000 mortar shells for the Ukrainian army, and investigators said the money went to various accounts in Ukraine and the Balkans.
"All the current and larger and smaller projects that are currently being implemented in Belgrade or are in the planning phase are not part of the strategic framework of the city's development, but are random, arbitrary interventions in the area that reflect the pressure of big money and corruption in the ranks of the government and administration," he says to "Time" Bozena Stojić, member of the Ministry of Space collective
The Group of States Against Corruption of the Council of Europe (GRECO) should react when the Serbian Anti-Corruption Agency will not, write three organizations in a letter that "Vreme" has access to.
Six councilors from Nestorović's list could give the majority to Naprednjak in Belgrade. Apparently, they are already getting fat offers. It turns out that Nestorović and his closest associates are not very sure about these people
The elections are the last chance for the same people to stop changing in the seats of power, to look at the truth in the eyes of where Serbia is in relation to the neighborhood in the region, and construction with incorporation is replaced by shortening hospital lists and building infrastructure for the benefit of all citizens. And if you are fine, as they would say in Peščanik, then nothing
Immediately after Miroslav Aleksić showed the letter about the alleged corruption affair regarding SNS, the President of Serbia spoke
If in Serbia it is still a nightmare to talk about lustration, we can talk about the necessity of passing the Law on vetting. That's what the process is called in the countries of the region
Portugal's prime minister has offered his resignation to the country's president amid an investigation into alleged irregularities in the government's handling of lithium mining project agreements and the so-called pure hydrogen
The draft law on special procedures for the implementation of the international specialized exhibition EXPO Belgrade 2027 (Lex specialis EXPO) fundamentally legalizes corruption and allows state money and loans for the construction of all facilities and line infrastructure to be spent bypassing all public procurement procedures
Economic problems trouble people more than violence, but the absence of social justice and the corruption of the system are also recognized as violence by the state against its own citizens.
According to this code, a police officer can receive an occasional or protocol gift in accordance with the "law, other regulation and act on gifts in the Ministry"
The analysis of the state of transparency and openness of judicial bodies carried out by the organization Partners Serbia shows that the courts and prosecutor's offices are still not sufficiently transparent and have not achieved significant progress in the field of transparency compared to previous years
Serbia ranks third out of 44 countries on the European continent in terms of the prevalence of crime. Only Russia, which is in first place, and Ukraine, which is in second place, have worse positions than it, according to the index of organized crime for 2023 published by the Global Initiative to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).
Serbia ranks third out of 44 countries on the European continent in terms of the prevalence of crime. Only Russia, which is in first place, and Ukraine, which is in second place, have worse positions than it, according to the index of organized crime for 2023 published by the Global Initiative to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).
"A person may not have to know exactly what he wants, but he must know what he doesn't want. I didn't want to be a criminal and act on illegal orders. I personally know most of the MUP members who have been arrested in the last couple of years. They ended up in prison because they unquestioningly carried out all the orders, knowing that some of them were not according to the law. And it always comes at a cost"
"A person may not have to know exactly what he wants, but he must know what he doesn't want. I didn't want to be a criminal and act on illegal orders. I personally know most of the MUP members who have been arrested in the last couple of years. They ended up in prison because they unquestioningly carried out all the orders, knowing that some of them were not according to the law. And it always comes at a cost"
Does the construction of access roads around the Makiško Polje metro depot really cost 30 million euros per kilometer, and who will receive that money and according to whose agreement, asked a member of parliament from the Pravac Europe parliamentary group
The city's chief urban planner abused his position, proves the association "Naša mesna zajednica" and asks the city assembly to remove him
Why did the super-rich Emirates choose Serbia as a strategic partner in Europe? And here the answer is simple. Under the rule of the SNS, Serbia has what practically no other European country has, complete control of the top of the government over political, trade, investment and financial flows. Serbia is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, where everything can be done with everyone at the same time, both with the West and with the East, with grain and with weapons, both in the white and in the gray zone, and all under the supervision of one man. And that is exactly why we are attractive for the realization of various parts, something like Casablanca in the early 40s of the last century.
Part of the non-governmental organizations requested that the public debate on the Law on Prevention of Corruption be moved to September due to annual vacations. Although it is stated that progress can be seen in the proposed changes, the civil sector warns that certain provisions would have to be defined more precisely
Siniša Janković, a member of the Working Group for Drafting the Draft National Strategy for the Fight against Corruption in Serbia from 2023 to 2028, said that the representatives of the authorities formally showed a high level of attention to this topic, but that it was essentially absent.
The action has been announced for several years, and leading politicians from the Bulgarian reformist camp claim that the withdrawal of EU funds has become one of the main sources of income for organized crime groups.
