Branko Stamenković, president High Prosecutorial Council, says that not a single draft of possible amendments to the law, according to which it would be repealed, has reached the prosecutor's office and the council Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office as independent.
However, Stamenković tells "Vreme" that the announcements made by the holders of executive power are disturbing. "It is indicative that, judging by those statements, both the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and the Public Prosecutor's Office for war crimes, as well as the Special Public Prosecutor's Office for high-tech crime, should become only departments within the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade," he says.
"This means that the chief public prosecutor of that prosecution, regardless of whether it is Nenad Stefanovic like now or someone else, was authorized to independently, without any elections, opinions and the like in the selection of personnel, by adopting the annual work plan, assign prosecutors whom he discretionally thinks should work in those departments, as is now the case with other departments of that prosecution," adds Stamenković in an interview for the new issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands from this Thursday (December 11).
Unprecedented concentration of power
Stamenković is considered one of the closest associates of the Supreme Prosecutor Zagorke Dolovac. Both Dolovac and Stamenković and Mladen Nenadić, as the first man of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, as well as some other prosecutors, are under heavy attack from the regime and its pit-bull media.
Why? The answer is simple: because they dared to launch investigations against high government officials in the canopy case and General Staff, which until recently seemed like science fiction.
Stamenković says that subordinating several prosecutor's offices under the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office would be "an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of one head of the prosecutor's office, who, in addition to regular jurisdiction, would also have specialist jurisdiction on the territory of the entire Republic of Serbia in relation to organized crime, war crimes and high-tech crime, which does not exist now."
Read the entire interview with Branko Stamenković in the new "Vremen" from this Thursday (December 11) or subscribe.
