Attacks on students and journalists in the Bor local elections
Attacks on students and journalists in the Bor local elections: Revolt journalist Lazar Dinić, who was beaten during the local elections in Bor, says a black SUV followed him and an unknown person photographed the terrace of his flat; the Civilian Committee of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCBP) calls on the police and prosecutors to look into this and protect him.
Irregularities in the 2026 elections
Irregularities in the 2026 elections: The citizens' association Lokalna alternativa from Vrbas said it had filed criminal complaints with the prosecutor's offices in Vrbas and Novi Sad against two people suspected of buying votes for the SNS in the 25 October elections; according to the association, the police are acting on the orders of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office.
Irregularities in the 2026 elections: Lawyer Ivan Ninić said he had filed a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime against the director of the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA), Vladimir Orlić, and seven other members of the agency, alleging that they had required BIA employees to collect capillary votes for the SNS.
Irregularities in the 2026 elections: On the orders of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, six employees of the municipal administration and the police station in Mali Zvornik were arrested on suspicion that, for money, they allowed citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina to register residence in Serbia so they could vote. One of them is suspected of driving an official vehicle to „Ćacilend“.
Irregularities in the 2026 elections: The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Aleksinac opened a case over alleged vote buying in the rerun in the village of Glogovica in favour of the "Usame Zukorlić (SPP)" list, which won a seat through that vote, and referred it to the prosecution in Niš. The party rejects the allegations.
Irregularities in the 2026 elections: The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad arrested four people on suspicion of buying votes for the „Aleksandar Vučić – Ujedinjena Srbija“ list in the 25 October elections. According to the prosecution, three of them confessed, and 6,000 dinars was paid per vote.
Irregularities in the 2026 elections: The Press Council said its monitoring of nine daily newspapers during the campaign for the 25 October elections recorded 1,474 breaches of the Journalists' Code of Ethics in 575 articles, most of them in Alo (422), Kurir (383), Srpski telegraf (276) and Informer (209).
Public contracts for companies owned by officials' relatives
Public contracts for companies owned by officials' relatives: The Zrenjanin initiative IZRAZ has reported that companies owned by the parents of Budimir Budimir, a Serbian Progressive Party councillor and acting director of the public utility company "Sečanj", have received eight contracts since 2024 from Zrenjanin's Vodovod water utility, where he had worked, and from the Nature Reserves institution, worth about 4.8 million dinars in total.
Marko Kričak threatened to rape a student in the Government garage
Marko Kričak threatened to rape a student in the Government garage: The First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade confirmed that it had received a binding instruction from the Supreme Public Prosecutor in the case based on complaints against Marko Kričak over the alleged abuse of students in the government building's garage. According to Nova.rs, the instruction ordered that an investigation be opened against him.
Marko Kričak threatened to rape a student in the Government garage: The First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade told RTS that in the case based on complaints against Marko Kričak and other Interior Ministry officers over the alleged mistreatment of students in the government building's garage, an investigation against the suspects will follow; student Nikolina Sinđelić says that even after a year she has not been questioned.
Marko Kričak threatened to rape a student in the Government garage: The Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office commission for overseeing the work of prosecutors' offices has taken over from the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade the case concerning the mistreatment of students in the government building's garage, in which Marko Kričak was named in a complaint, prosecutor Branko Stamenković said; a decision following the oversight is expected soon.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: The portal Kamatica reported that, according to the National Bank of Serbia's register, the state-owned EPS, Elektromreža Srbije, Telekom Srbija, Srbijagas and Belgrade's water utility also hold accounts at Davor Macura's Alta Banka. According to Nova, some state companies had more than one billion dinars in their accounts at the bank.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: The news portal Nova.rs reported that lawyer Ivan Ninić has filed a criminal complaint with the Organised Crime Prosecutor's Office against ten members of Alta Banka's management and the leadership of the National Bank of Serbia. Ninić claims that after the elections the bank rapidly moved money to Moscow and Skopje, and that the NBS did not react.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: The Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime has arrested three people from Alta Banka, among them, according to Radio Free Europe and BIRN, the bank's owner Davor Macura, on suspicion of taking around 45 billion dinars out of the bank's vault; two vault employees are suspected of helping him.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: The Organised Crime Prosecutor's Office has ordered up to 48 hours' detention for suspects in the Alta Bank case. His defence lawyers have confirmed that they include the bank's owner, Davor Macura. The bank and the suspect's flat were searched on the prosecutors' orders.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: Davor Macura, the owner of Alta Bank, whose operating licence was revoked by the National Bank of Serbia, has been detained. Nova.rs reported the detention, and N1 and Macura's lawyer, speaking to BBC News Serbian, confirmed it. According to Nova, police had searched the bank for more than 30 hours beforehand.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: The Kareja Institute for Corruption Research has filed a criminal complaint with the Organised Crime Prosecutor's Office because the power utility EPS moved the collection of electricity bills from a free Treasury Administration account to Alta Bank. Kareja claims the bank gained about 430 million dinars as a result.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: The Financial Times reported that, according to the paper's sources, Davor Macura's Alta Bank played a significant role in money transfers by Russian citizens and companies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and that, according to Serbian officials, its clients moved significant sums abroad after the elections.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: Intesa Invest, a company in the Intesa Sanpaolo group, said its Cash Dinar and Cash Euro funds had term deposits at Alta banka and that, on the orders of the Securities Commission, it is carrying them at a value of zero. The funds remain creditors of the bank.
Fifth Belgrade Grammar School: teacher dismissals and suspensions
Fifth Belgrade Grammar School: teacher dismissals and suspensions: The Parents' Assembly of the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium said a court had issued an interim measure ordering the reinstatement of Latin teacher Milkica Prica, who was dismissed by acting principal Ognjen Mrvaljević after almost 20 years at the school, until the dispute is finally resolved.
Fifth Belgrade Grammar School: teacher dismissals and suspensions: The First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade ordered the police to temporarily seize all documents found and to take statements from Ognjen Mrvaljević, principal of the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium, and from witnesses, after students and parents said the principal had been throwing documents into a dumpster.
Fifth Belgrade Grammar School: teacher dismissals and suspensions: Ognjen Mrvaljević, principal of the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium, who according to Nedeljnik and Vreme was detained by police after students caught him throwing away bags of documents, said in a letter to staff that he had thrown out only office waste and had gone to the police voluntarily.
The Belivuk group and its ties to the state
The Belivuk group and its ties to the state: The Higher Court in Belgrade announced that then-President Aleksandar Vučić had pardoned former Interior Ministry state secretary Dijana Hrkalović, releasing her from criminal prosecution for influence peddling; in the retrial, prosecutors had sought five years in prison for her.
Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades
Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades: The Higher Court in Belgrade announced that on 27 September Aleksandar Vučić, as president, freed Marko Pavlović, charged with attempted aggravated murder, from criminal prosecution. According to Insajder, he is the driver who hit the student Sonja Ponjavić in Ruzveltova Street; the verdict had been scheduled for 6 November.
Novi Sad activists charged with overthrowing the constitutional order
Novi Sad activists charged with overthrowing the constitutional order: The Higher Court in Novi Sad said it had received decisions by former president Aleksandar Vučić of 27 September releasing from criminal prosecution twelve Novi Sad activists from PSG and STAV who had been charged with preparing an offence against the constitutional order; the justice minister initiated the proceedings.
Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation
Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation: The Higher Courts in Belgrade and Novi Sad published the names of 23 people pardoned by former president Aleksandar Vučić on 27 September, among them former Interior Ministry state secretary Dijana Hrkalović, Niš Higher Court president Dragana Živadinović and twelve Novi Sad activists; 26 names remain unknown.
Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away
Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away: The Organised Crime Prosecutor's Office asked the relevant institutions to establish whether its prosecutors had been wiretapped and secretly followed, after Radar reported that the BIA security agency had been surveilling them over the “Canopy” case; it called this a direct attack on the independence of the prosecution service.
Collapse of the canopy at Novi Sad railway station
Collapse of the canopy at Novi Sad railway station: The Nova.rs portal reported that professors Ognjen Radonjić and Vladimir Obradović handed the book “Canopy Dossier” to Supreme Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac and Belgrade Higher Public Prosecutor Nenad Stefanović, with the message that the prosecution no longer has any reason to delay the investigation into the canopy collapse.
„Safe votes“ and jobs in the public sector
„Safe votes“ and jobs in the public sector: Nova.rs reported that an organised intake of about 50 workers of the company PRO TENT into Elektroprivreda Srbije is under way, workers who, according to some staff, worked on SNS campaigns; EPS did not say who approved the intake or whether there was a public competition.
EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement
EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement: The Serbian Government's Anti-Corruption Council recommended that the Government amend the special law for EXPO 2027 so that new buildings can be used only with an occupancy permit, and that it publish, together with the company EXPO 2027, all procurement data, including contracts agreed through direct negotiation.
EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement: The Kreni-Promeni movement said, citing some employees of the Ministry of Culture, that Nikola Selaković, culture minister in the caretaker government, is speeding up the distribution of hundreds of millions of dinars for culture. It singled out a call for cultural projects linked to EXPO as particularly contentious.
Acquittal in the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija
Acquittal in the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija: Six journalists' and media associations in the Standing Working Group on the Safety of Journalists called on the prosecution and police to re-examine the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija, and on the High Judicial Council to act urgently on the complaints filed in January against the three Court of Appeal judges who acquitted those charged.
“Ćacilend”: a pro-government supporters' camp in Pionirski Park
“Ćacilend”: a pro-government supporters' camp in Pionirski Park: Dragan Dobrašinović, president of the Uspravna Srbija movement, has asked Supreme Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac to seek a ban on the Serbian Progressive Party before the Constitutional Court because, he says, it set up and supported the "Ćacilend" camp in Pionirski Park.
REM, RTS and state money for the media
REM, RTS and state money for the media: Stevica Smederevac, president of the Council of REM, the media regulator, said that the Management Board of RTS, most of whose members' terms have expired, has no legal basis to choose an acting general director; the board's president, Branislav Klanšček, replied that the board is acting on an opinion from the Ministry of Information.
The Niš court president, a parole and a Zlatibor voucher
The Niš court president, a parole and a Zlatibor voucher: The Higher Court in Belgrade announced that former President Aleksandar Vučić had released from criminal prosecution Dragana Živadinović, who was President of the Higher Court in Niš at the time of her arrest and was on trial on suspicion of accepting a hotel voucher on Zlatibor in exchange for a convict's parole.