Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: N1 reported that questioning has begun at the Organised Crime Prosecutor's Office in the Alta Banka case. After two employees from the vault, the bank's arrested owner, Davor Macura, was due to be questioned in the evening; his lawyers entered the prosecutor's office shortly before 22h.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: Former president Aleksandar Vučić said he believes National Bank of Serbia Governor Jorgovanka Tabaković "saw something" when she revoked Alta Banka's licence, but that he finds the case "very strange". He says he never had an account at the bank and has met its owner, Davor Macura, three or four times.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: Novi Sad Mayor Žarko Mićin denied the Bravo Movement's claim that six billion dinars of the city budget were trapped in Alta Banka, but said that some money belonging to several city public enterprises, in a far smaller amount, remained in the bank, which has gone bankrupt.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: Insajder reported that some money belonging to state and public enterprises is also trapped in Davor Macura's Alta banka, which has gone bankrupt. Srbijavode says it has around €879,000 left in the bank, and EPS, by Insajder's estimate, around €1.6 million. The total is not known.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: The Republic Pension and Disability Insurance Fund said that 1,965 pensioners who received their pensions into accounts at Alta banka, whose operating licence was revoked, will collect their October pension at the counters of Banka Poštanska štedionica. The bank has started the payouts.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: Radio Free Europe found that more than 40 public enterprises, as well as the Ministry of Agriculture and the cities of Belgrade, Leskovac, Vranje, Prokuplje and Bor, held accounts at Davor Macura's Alta banka. Telekom Srbija, Pošta Srbije and the EXPO 2027 company say the bank's bankruptcy does not threaten their operations.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: The Green-Left Front said a report by the State Audit Institution shows that at the end of 2025 the City of Belgrade held two billion dinars of budget money as a short-term placement at Alta Banka, and called on Mayor Aleksandar Šapić to say whether that money has been returned.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: The Commercial Court in Belgrade opened bankruptcy proceedings against Davor Macura's Alta banka, whose operating licence the National Bank of Serbia had revoked, and appointed the Deposit Insurance Agency as bankruptcy administrator. Insured deposits of up to €50,000 will be paid out by Banka Poštanska štedionica.
Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: Nedeljnik reported that the unit value of three funds run by Vista Rica fell by between 17.96% and 22.61%, because, on the order of the Securities Commission, their deposits at Alta Banka, whose licence the National Bank of Serbia has revoked, were reported as fully impaired.
Vulin bypassed security screening escorted by BIA
Vulin bypassed security screening escorted by BIA: An Air Serbia flight to Moscow was turned back to Belgrade over Lithuania for additional security checks on one passenger; Nova.rs and Vreme reported, citing unofficial sources, that it was former BIA director Aleksandar Vulin, who boarded without being checked.
Irregularities in the 2026 elections
Irregularities in the 2026 elections: The Bureau for Social Research (BIRODI) said that during the campaign TV Informer devoted 15,388 minutes of positive coverage to Aleksandar Vučić and the "United Serbia" list, and 14,442 minutes of negative coverage to the Student List, with no positive or neutral reporting on it.
Irregularities in the 2026 elections: PODES movement leader Dragan Milić called on prosecutors and police in Niš to investigate a payment of 25 million dinars from the city budget to the "Konstantin" club ahead of the elections, which he claims was used to pay the men who circled Niš on election day; the mayor and the club's representative deny this.
EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement
EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement: Vladimir Pajić, a member of the Presidency of the Free Citizens Movement, claims that in a decision of 16 October, issued without prior publication, the Ministry of Culture awarded €1.69 million for EXPO programmes, including to private companies, printing houses and agencies, in breach of the law.
EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement: The Democratic Party said it had submitted an initiative to the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office to launch an administrative lawsuit against the Ministry of Culture's decision approving more than 194 million dinars for EXPO 2027 cultural programmes, in order to halt the payments and annul the results of the call.
„Safe votes“ and jobs in the public sector
„Safe votes“ and jobs in the public sector: Nova.rs published excerpts of messages that lawyer Ivan Ninić says he attached to a criminal complaint to the Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime as election-day messages from prison governors. One of them calls for “bringing out the capillaries” because “the numbers are not good”.
Money laundering by RHMZ director Jugoslav Nikolić
Money laundering by RHMZ director Jugoslav Nikolić: On the orders of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, Jugoslav Nikolić, director of the Republic Hydrometeorological Service, has been arrested along with two other people on suspicion of laundering at least €650,000 by buying property in Serbia and Montenegro; he is also accused of failing to declare his assets to the Anti-Corruption Agency.
The „Senjak“ case: a restaurant murder and Veselin Milić
The „Senjak“ case: a restaurant murder and Veselin Milić: The Ministry of the Interior has temporarily suspended Marko Kričak, head of the Criminal Police Directorate, and Boško Sekulović, head of the Crime Suppression Service, who have been ordered into custody in the case of the murder at "Restaurant 27". Their deputies are taking over.
The „Senjak“ case: a restaurant murder and Veselin Milić: The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade announced an appeal because the Higher Court ordered Marko Kričak, head of the Criminal Police Directorate, and Boško Sekulović, suspects in the “Restaurant 27” case, detained only over the risk of influencing witnesses; the prosecution also wants them held over the risk of reoffending.
The „Senjak“ case: a restaurant murder and Veselin Milić: The Higher Court in Belgrade ordered Marko Kričak, head of the Criminal Police Directorate, and Boško Sekulović, head of the Crime Suppression Service, detained for up to 30 days. They are suspected of abusing their positions in the investigation into the murder at “Restaurant 27”, and the court found a risk that, if released, they would influence witnesses.
Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation
Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation: The Ministry of Justice published the list of all 49 people pardoned by former president Aleksandar Vučić, claiming it could not have published it before the decisions were officially delivered to the courts and that a pardon is not in itself an abuse of office.
Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation: The Basic Court in Ub confirmed that former president Aleksandar Vučić had pardoned three defendants charged with violent behaviour, who were on trial before that court over an attack in which one activist was lightly injured; according to the Nova.rs portal, they are activists of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation: The Higher Court in Niš has announced that Aleksandar Vučić also granted immunity from criminal prosecution for abuse of office to Boban Džunić, former president of the Niš municipality of Palilula and of the Niš City Assembly, and to Nikola Božić, former president of the Palilula Municipal Assembly.
Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation: Dragan Danilović, a prosecutor at the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade who argued the indictment against pardoned driver Marko Pavlović, has proposed that the case files be sent to the Organised Crime Prosecutor's Office to assess whether Aleksandar Vučić abused his official position in granting the pardon.
Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation: The Higher Court in Niš has published the names of 18 more people pardoned by former President Aleksandar Vučić, including former Niš City Assembly speaker Igor Novaković, retired General Milosav Simović and 15 former members of the city's Emergency Situations Headquarters.
REM, RTS and state money for the media
REM, RTS and state money for the media: According to Danas and RTS, the Council of REM, the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media, agreed at a consultative meeting to discuss the first measures against TV Informer the following day, along with a new rulebook on selecting members of the RTS and RTV management boards; according to Danas, all eight members were present.
REM, RTS and state money for the media: The Journalists' Association of Serbia said that former president Aleksandar Vučić, on the TV Pink show “Hit tvit”, called Milan Srdić, head of RTS's Novi Sad bureau, “illiterate” and “separatist-minded”, and called on Vučić to apologise to him and stop insulting journalists.
Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades
Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades: Prosecutor Dragan Danilović of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade told Nova.rs that the heads of the prosecution service pressured him to downgrade the charge against Marko Pavlović, the driver who hit a student. He says he was transferred for refusing and is ready to testify before the Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime.
Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades: The Basic Court in Belgrade said that on 27 September Aleksandar Vučić also released from criminal prosecution the driver who in May, during a tribute outside the Faculty of Law, knocked down a man (90) with his car; the prosecution had charged him with an aggravated offence against public safety.
Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades: The Higher Court in Belgrade confirmed to Insajder that it had lifted the detention of Marko Pavlović, charged with the attempted murder of the student Sonja Ponjavić, whom Aleksandar Vučić had freed from criminal prosecution before the verdict; Pavlović, who had been in detention since January 2025, has been released.
Destruction of official records after the elections
Destruction of official records after the elections: The Ist Media portal reported that the police handed the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Bor about 10,000 photographs of documents from the sacks seized when files were carried out of the PIO Fund branch in Bor at night. They include certificates of length of service.
Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away
Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away: The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, headed by Nenad Stefanović, asked the High Prosecutorial Council for urgent protection from an “atmosphere of persecution and lynching” and political pressure after the elections, and turned to the EU Delegation and the OSCE Mission, while a commission of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office reviews its work.
NoviSpy: spyware on activists' phones
NoviSpy: spyware on activists' phones: Former BIA officers Milan Zvezdanović and a female colleague have filed a criminal complaint against BIA director Vladimir Orlić and the heads of one of the BIA's regional centres, claiming that they drew up unfounded proposals for the covert surveillance of several dozen students, professors and activists.
Pressure on universities and professors' salaries
Pressure on universities and professors' salaries: Danas and Južne vesti reported that staff at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš had also been paid their September salary, meaning the Ministry of Education had settled all the salaries that were more than three months overdue.