Category: Money and deals
Period: from 2021
Outcome: Under investigation (as of 5 Nov 2026)
On 5 November 2026 the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad arrested provincial secretary for social policy Predrag Vuletić and commission chair Diana Milović, who are suspected of abusing their positions to let people who did not meet the conditions receive 130.9 million dinars in grants meant for families with a third or fourth child. According to the prosecution, this cost the Vojvodina budget that amount over 2021–2024. At the prosecution's request, the Higher Court in Novi Sad remanded both in custody for up to 30 days, and pre-investigation proceedings are under way.
The Provincial Secretariat for Social Policy, Demography and Gender Equality awarded grants to families in which a third or fourth child was born, to help them secure housing or improve their living conditions. The calls for applications covered 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Applications were decided on by a secretariat commission, and the secretary since 2016 has been Predrag Vuletić.
According to a statement from the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, there are grounds to suspect that the secretary and the commission chair abused their official position and authority to obtain an unlawful financial gain of 130,900,000 dinars for other individuals.
The people who received the grants, the prosecution says, did not meet even the basic condition of the call: the birth of a third or fourth child. The suspects are charged with a continuing criminal offence of abuse of office.
Vuletić and Milović were arrested on 5 November on the orders of the Special Anti-Corruption Department. After being held for up to 48 hours they were questioned, and on 6 November the prosecution sought detention for both. On 7 November the pre-trial judge of the Higher Court in Novi Sad remanded them in custody for up to 30 days: Vuletić because of the risk of witness interference and reoffending, Milović because of the risk of flight and witness interference. The prosecution is continuing to gather evidence.
Vuletić is reportedly a member of the Presidency of the Movement of Socialists and is considered one of the closest associates of its president, Aleksandar Vulin. No response from the suspects has been published.
Državna revizorska institucija podnela je još u februaru 2025. Posebnom odeljenju za suzbijanje korupcije novosadskog tužilaštva krivičnu prijavu protiv Vuletića i odgovornih lica u sekretarijatu, zbog sumnje na nesavestan rad u službi pri javnim konkursima od 2021. do 2024. Za tu prijavu se saznalo tek posle hapšenja, a njen ishod nije poznat.
U reviziji konkursa za programe udruženja od 2021. do 2023., vrednih 77 miliona dinara, revizori su utvrdili da komisije sekretarijata nisu poštovale rokove, da su rangirale nepotpune predloge i programe van Vojvodine, suprotno uslovima konkursa, i da sekretarijat nije pratio realizaciju projekata.
On the same day, at a session of the Assembly of Vojvodina on the budget revision, opposition deputies challenged the legitimacy of the Provincial Government over the arrest of Vuletić. Milan Vasiljević, a deputy from the Freedom and Justice Party, called for the Government to resign and for snap provincial elections.
The President of the Government, Maja Gojković, said she had not been informed that he was being brought in and called for the presumption of innocence to be respected. She rejected the calls to resign, saying the opposition had no legitimacy to make them either, because its parties had not passed the electoral threshold or had not taken part in the elections.