Category: Above the law
Period: from 2011
Outcome: Complaint dismissed or proceedings halted (as of 14 Nov 2025)
Dragiša Simić was indicted, as head of the Traffic Police Directorate, for ordering in around 400 cases between 2011 and 2014 that misdemeanour proceedings not be brought or be withdrawn, and in 2020 the Third Basic Court gave him a suspended sentence of a year. He also allegedly gave a Bentley seized from Šarić's clan to his partner, who crashed it in 2012. The verdict was overturned on appeal and the proceedings were dropped, so according to the Interior Ministry he was never convicted with final effect. Since November 2025 he has headed the Border Police Directorate.
The Third Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade indicted Simić, the former head of the Traffic Police Administration, for abuse of office in connection with misdemeanour proceedings. The prosecution charged that between 2011 and 2014 he ordered that misdemeanour proceedings against certain people not be brought or that requests already filed be withdrawn, and that he acted outside the law in around 400 cases; according to the prosecution, the law gave him the right to act that way in certain cases. He was dismissed as head on 6 June 2014.
On 3 November 2020 the Third Basic Court sentenced him to a year in prison, suspended for three years. According to the Interior Ministry, the Higher Court in Belgrade overturned the suspended sentence on the defence's appeal, and in the retrial the first-instance court dropped the proceedings. Simić was therefore never convicted with final effect and holds a certificate of no criminal record. The date of the Higher Court's decision and the grounds for dropping the case have not been made public.
When arresting members of Darko Šarić's clan, police seized a “Bentley” that ended up with the police. Simić allegedly took it for his own use, which he was entitled to do, but gave it to his then partner, the singer Ljupka Stević, which he was not entitled to do, and she crashed it in 2012. The sources we found do not mention any proceedings over this.
On 12 November 2025, the Interior Ministry announced that Simić had been appointed head of the Border Police Directorate. According to Nova.rs, his official biography left out the fact that he had been tried. The Interior Ministry responded that the claims were untrue and politically motivated, and that they were disinforming the public. Simić is also mentioned in the affair of the Moscow flight that was turned back.