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 Freedom and Justice Party announced that, according to the information it has, the former director of EPS and the current president of the Municipality of Obrenovac, Milorad Grcic, has resigned from custody.
"It is quite clear that Milorad Grcic alone does not have the intellectual capacity to design any money extraction. At the same time, the entire team that works on EPS does not miss a hair, nor does anyone pay attention to them," says attorney Čedomir Stojković for "Vreme".
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
EPS trade unionist Dragoslav Ljubičić, who has five years left until retirement, was fired for posting on Facebook. He told "Vreme" that repressive measures will be launched across Serbia these days against people who publicly deal with "arrogant thieves in power".
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
After the former general director of EPS, Milorad Grcic, the controversial businessman Aleksandar Papić was arrested, who is suspected of being the owner of a company that received rigged tenders.
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.
AD EPS will spend the same amount of money for the import of coal this year for five million tons as for the complete production from RB Kolubara (something around 22 million tons). This will increase the producer price of the final product of EPS, electricity, by 50 percent, because those 27 million tons cost twice as much as if all 27 million tons were produced in Kolubara
The former acting director from the time when EPS experienced a complete collapse returns to the position of director in this public company, this time at the head of Pro Tenta, a company that works within EPS to provide services
The Minister of Mining and Energy, Zorana Mihajlović, filed a criminal complaint against the former acting director of the Electric Power Company of Serbia (EPS), Milorad Grčić. The report states that by acting negligently and exceeding his authority, he caused damage to the state of more than 500 million euros and threatened its security system.
Ivica Dačić's socialists are in danger of losing control over the energy industry, which they have held for a decade and a half because of Russia's backs. By removing Dušan Bajatović from the position of director of Srbijagas, Zorana Mihajlović's dream would come true
All analyzes and questions about what Grcic's resignation means can be reduced to one word: nothing. Because the noise and smoke to cover up the real reasons for the situation in the EPS, loud incitement and mutual spitting of party comrades, licking the feet of the master while waiting for mercy, are nothing big.
"If Mrs. Zorana Mihajlović remains at the head of the Ministry of Mining and Energy for more than three months, if she leads that ministry for a single day after the election, our power system is condemned to death, to complete collapse," wrote the long-term acting director of EPS- and Grcic in his farewell letter. However, Grcic is not the real problem, he is only a consequence
Last night, a fire broke out at the Tamnava coal mine in Kolubara, which engulfed the machine for disposing of coal tailings. Firefighters localized it in the early hours of the morning, but the fire left the sixth line on the list of accidents that have befallen EPS in recent times.
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Compared to 2014, the position of Aleksandar Vučić is significantly different today. He is more experienced, more confident, more relaxed. Acting is an undoubted element of continuity, but now with much more overpowering and slyness. He learned to combine "good" and "bad" news, albeit often in a grotesque way
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EPS announces that due to "unexplained circumstances" and "deliberate errors in work", the police and security services will be looking for those responsible for the collapse of TENT. The investigation, therefore, will go in the direction of some third columnists and saboteurs, and not the completely incompetent progressive cadre, which includes acting director Milorad Grcic himself.
The source of "Vremena" says that not enough good lignite is sent to TENT and that is why it has already happened that the mixture of lignite with tailings is burned with the help of fuel oil: "They tried that this time as well, but now they were not lucky."
"Postponing investment repairs, both mines and mining equipment, is the constant action of the CEO of Elekroprivreda Srbija Milorad Grčić. Over time, tailings removal was reduced to scratching, regular annual overhauls were skipped as much as possible, and all forces were focused on coal production, because the boss likes big numbers." This was written more than four years ago in the text "Restrictions in the announcement" by "Vremena" journalist Zoran Majdin. It was as if he was writing today
