# Latest: Wednesday 4 November 2026 ## Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business - [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): The weekly Vreme reported that the Serbian Government granted the Serbian Orthodox Church 763.1 million dinars for a new mosaic and that the money was paid into the Church's account at Alta Banka; according to Vreme, the money is suspected of having been taken out of Serbia in cash and handed over to partners in Moscow. - [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): KRIK reported that, according to the prosecutors' order opening the investigation, of the roughly €390 million that Alta Banka owner Davor Macura allegedly took from the bank, about €370 million never even reached the vault. The witnesses include National Bank of Serbia Governor Jorgovanka Tabaković. - [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): BIRN reported that, according to the National Bank of Serbia's decision revoking Alta banka's licence, the bank had persistent liquidity problems throughout 2026 and on 30 September reported close to 60 billion dinars in cash, more than half a billion euros. The NBS ordered it to take stock of its cash only on 29 October. - [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): The Macedonian opposition party SDSM said Alta Banka, through its owner Davor Macura, bought the insurer ZOIL “Makedonija” in North Macedonia for about €1.7 million, and asked whether the insurance policies of citizens and companies are now at risk. - [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): A judge of the Special Department for Organised Crime of the Higher Court in Belgrade ordered up to 30 days' detention for the three defendants in the Alta banka case. According to N1, Vreme, KRIK and 021.rs, they include the bank's owner, Davor Macura, whom prosecutors suspect of taking about 45 billion dinars out of the vault. - [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): The Central Bank of Montenegro told the daily Vijesti that this year 58 transactions of more than €50.000 were made from nine Montenegrin banks to accounts at Davor Macura's Alta banka, and that it had imposed the maximum fine allowed by law on his company Alta Pay Group over irregularities in preventing money laundering. - [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): Isa Spahović, lawyer for Alta banka owner Davor Macura, told the FoNet agency that Macura denied guilt when questioned at the Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime, and that the prosecutor has requested that he be remanded in custody for up to 30 days. The pre-trial judge will decide. - [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): The City of Pirot said that in September it placed up to 400 million dinars of its budget in a term deposit at Alta Banka, and that after the bank lost its licence it asked the Commercial Court in Belgrade to have the money separated from the bankruptcy estate. It did not say how much money remained in the bank. ## Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School - [Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jovina-gimnazija): Rima Grujić, a teacher at Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School in Novi Sad, told N1 that she and fellow teacher Jovan Travica, whom the court had reinstated, were served new suspension decisions along with documents signed by principal Radivoje P. Stojković, whom the court had barred from entering the school. ## Irregularities in the 2026 elections - [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): The Nova.rs portal reported that six people had been arrested in Niš on suspicion of attacking bikers from the Student List's mobile teams who were touring polling stations on election day; the Niš Police Department confirmed to N1 that proceedings are under way. - [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Kraljevo opened a case on suspicion of abuse of office and bribery linked to voting in Zabela prison, and police searched the prison; according to the daily Danas and the Nova.rs portal, they found cartons of cigarettes suspected of being bribes to prisoners for voting SNS. - [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): Democratic Party leader Srđan Milivojević filed criminal complaints with the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office against Informer, Tanjug and their editors, claiming that on election night, in collusion with the outgoing government, they presented the first results as a victory for the "United Serbia" list in order to provoke incidents. - [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): The 021.rs portal reported that a new criminal complaint has been filed against Gorski Matović, whom Vučić pardoned for an attack on students, because a group he led threatened a Student List mobile team in Novi Sad on election day; according to a lawyer, the police detained him and released him straight away. - [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Niš opened a case on suspicion of vote buying in the repeat vote in the Aleksinac village of Glogovica, where the "Usame Zukorlić (SPP)" list won 53 votes, and requested information from the Criminal Police Directorate and the Anti-Corruption Service. ## Marko Kričak threatened to rape a student in the Government garage - [Marko Kričak threatened to rape a student in the Government garage](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/marko-kricak): The Interior Ministry said that, on the order of the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, eight police officers and one former officer had been ordered held for up to 48 hours on suspicion of abuse and torture in the Government garage; according to RTS, they include Igor Žmirić, commander of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit. ## Money laundering by RHMZ director Jugoslav Nikolić - [Money laundering by RHMZ director Jugoslav Nikolić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rhmz-nikolic-pranje-novca): Jugoslav Nikolić, director of the Republic Hydrometeorological Service, and two other people suspected of laundering at least €650,000 remained silent before the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, which asked the court to order them held in custody. ## REM, RTS and state money for the media - [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): Speaker of the National Assembly of Serbia Ana Brnabić said at an emergency press conference that the penalties imposed by REM, the electronic media regulator, on TV Informer and TV Prva had abolished freedom of information and the institutions, that a “dictatorship of the Student List” had begun and that it was “conducting a witch hunt”. - [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): N1 and Insajder reported that Informer supporters gathered outside REM, the electronic media regulator, surrounded Council member Rodoljub Šabić after the Council's session, shoved him and shouted at him that he was an “Ustaša”; Šabić was escorted away by the police. - [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): According to N1 and Vreme, the Council of REM, the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media, unanimously banned TV Informer from broadcasting the programme “Prve info” for seven days over a particularly serious violation of the law, because its presenter voiced her political views on the show during the election campaign. - [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): According to Nova, Informer's owner and editor-in-chief Dragan J. Vučićević walked into a session of the Council of REM, the electronic media regulator, with his deputy and legal team, and shouted at Council members that they had decided to “cut off Informer's head” and shut it down. - [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): According to RTS and N1, the Council of REM, the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media, banned TV Prva from broadcasting its News for one day and its Morning Programme for five days for breaching the rules on reporting during the election campaign; according to RTS, it also opened another five to six review proceedings against TV Informer. - [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): The Council of REM, the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media, replied to the RTS Management Board that the terms of six of its nine members had expired, so the board has neither a quorum nor the authority to choose an acting general director; until a new board is constituted, the public broadcaster is run by the existing authorised officials. - [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): According to Danas and RTS, the Council of REM, the electronic media regulator, opened proceedings against TV Informer over offensive remarks about Zoran Gavrilović and Council member Rodoljub Šabić, as well as an inquiry into its broadcast of a state documentary film on the show “Kolegijum”. - [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): Informer editor-in-chief Dragan J. Vučićević, Ana Brnabić and SNS officials called on supporters to "defend media freedom" outside REM, the regulator for electronic media, ahead of a session on the first measures against TV Informer; according to Vreme, around 200 people gathered, and Vučićević also came. ## The „Senjak“ case: a restaurant murder and Veselin Milić - [The „Senjak“ case: a restaurant murder and Veselin Milić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/ubistvo-nesovica-veselin-milic): The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade said police were searching the cell at the District Prison of Marko Kričak, the detained head of the Criminal Police Directorate and a suspect in the case of the murder at "Restaurant 27", following an anonymous tip that he has a mobile phone. ## General Staff: lifting of protection and the Selaković trial - [General Staff: lifting of protection and the Selaković trial](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/generalstab): N1, KRIK, BIRN and other media reported that the trial of caretaker Minister of Culture Nikola Selaković and three others in the General Staff case had been postponed to 23 November because Goran Vasić did not appear. According to his lawyer, Vasić is in hospital, and the prosecutor is seeking to have the proceedings against him severed. - [General Staff: lifting of protection and the Selaković trial](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/generalstab): Responding to N1 about the Guardian's reporting, the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime said that several meetings had preceded the lifting of the General Staff's protection and that witnesses who had attended them had been questioned; work on the case, it said, is not finished. ## Vulin bypassed security screening escorted by BIA - [Vulin bypassed security screening escorted by BIA](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/vulin-let-za-moskvu): The Special Anti-Corruption Department of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade ordered information to be gathered urgently about the turned-back Moscow flight, including whether any of the passengers or officials breached procedures, and asked the Third Basic Prosecutor's Office to hand over the case. - [Vulin bypassed security screening escorted by BIA](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/vulin-let-za-moskvu): The news site Nova.rs reported, citing unofficial information, that the head of the Border Police Directorate, General Dragiša Simić, allegedly delayed the order to turn back the Moscow flight carrying Aleksandar Vulin; the Interior Ministry did not respond. - [Vulin bypassed security screening escorted by BIA](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/vulin-let-za-moskvu): The Third Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade opened a case over the turned-back Moscow flight because one passenger went through security escorted by a BIA officer without being screened even though an alarm went off, which the police did not initially tell the duty prosecutor. ## Attacks on journalists - [Attacks on journalists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-novinare): Radar published documents showing that Vladimir Orlić, director of the Security Information Agency (BIA), asked the Belgrade Higher Court to authorise secret surveillance of Radar's editor-in-chief Vesna Mališić and two journalists on suspicion of espionage; conversations in the newsroom were also recorded from June to October. - [Attacks on journalists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-novinare): Radar reported that in early August, neighbours of its journalist Vuk Cvijić filmed an unknown man who for days had been staking out, all day long, the entrance to the building where Cvijić lives with his family, walking around and making phone calls, and that they warned Cvijić. - [Attacks on journalists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-novinare): Insajder reported that people at a rally in support of Informer in front of REM, the electronic media regulator, hurled numerous insults and obscenities at its crew; acting President of the Republic Ana Brnabić, who was nearby, said she had „begged them not to attack“. - [Attacks on journalists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-novinare): According to N1 and Vreme, Informer supporters gathered in front of REM, the electronic media regulator, disrupted an N1 crew during a live broadcast, pushed them with umbrellas and shouted that they were „Ustaše“; according to Vreme, the attack was reported to the police. ## Telekom's purchase of Kopernikus and media outlets - [Telekom's purchase of Kopernikus and media outlets](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/telekom-kupovina-medija): TV Nova S asked the relevant authorities to examine the business of Alpac Fond Capital in Serbia, the agreement for N1 and Nova S to be available on the cable network of state-owned Telekom Srbija, and the flows of money Telekom channelled to certain media outlets. - [Telekom's purchase of Kopernikus and media outlets](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/telekom-kupovina-medija): The board of directors of Adria News Network Serbia announced that the N1 and Nova S channels would be available via Telekom Srbija and Yettel, even though state-owned Telekom dropped them from its offering in 2025. According to Vreme, the statement does not mention the daily newspaper Nova, whose closure had been announced. ## Police raid on the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad - [Police raid on the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/filozofski-novi-sad-2026): The Independent Trade Union of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad has called for the resignation of Dean Milivoj Alanović, who called the police into the faculty in January, and has announced measures under the Strike Act if a council session on his dismissal is not convened. ## Novi Sad activists charged with overthrowing the constitutional order - [Novi Sad activists charged with overthrowing the constitutional order](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/hapsenje-aktivista-drzavni-udar-2025): According to court documents seen by the Beta news agency, the Higher Court in Novi Sad halted the proceedings against twelve PSG and STAV activists pardoned by decisions of former president Aleksandar Vučić, and lifted detention and the arrest warrants for the six who have been outside Serbia since March 2025. ## „Safe votes“ and jobs in the public sector - [„Safe votes“ and jobs in the public sector](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/partijsko-zaposljavanje-sigurni-glasovi): Južne vesti reported that Niš city departments, public companies, and health and cultural institutions plan to fill at least 218 jobs after the elections in which SNS lost. Workers at the Niš water utility claim that more than 50 SNS activists are being hired through an unlawful reorganisation of posts. ## EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement - [EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/expo-2027): Transparency Serbia said that in 87 percent of procurements by the special EXPO companies, worth around €550 million, there was only a single bid that could be considered, because the special law for EXPO 2027 excluded the Public Procurement Act and the right of companies to challenge discriminatory conditions. ## “Sound cannon” at Belgrade protest - [“Sound cannon” at Belgrade protest](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/zvucni-top-15-mart): The Kreni-Promeni movement, led by Savo Manojlović, has filed criminal complaints over the prosecution's handling of the “sound cannon” case from the protest on 15 March 2025, and announced that it will hand the prosecutorial commission a list of several dozen of its complaints. ## Other days - [← 3 November](https://odgovornost.rs/en/najnovije/2026-11-03) - [5 November →](https://odgovornost.rs/en/najnovije/2026-11-05) - [Archive](https://odgovornost.rs/en/najnovije/arhiva) --- Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/najnovije/2026-11-04 As of: 4 Nov 2026 Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)