# Latest: Friday 6 November 2026

## Vuletić arrested over money for third and fourth children

- [Vuletić arrested over money for third and fourth children](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/vojvodina-bespovratna-sredstva-trece-dete): The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad asked for custody for provincial secretary Predrag Vuletić and commission chair Diana Milović, who are suspected of awarding 130.9 million dinars in support for a third or fourth child to people who did not meet that condition.

## 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, who has been arrested and is in custody on suspicion of laundering at least €650,000, has been dismissed as director of the Republic Hydrometeorological Service; Aleksandar Nišavić has been appointed acting director for six months, the Official Gazette announced.

## Criminals' Sky messages about government officials

- [Criminals' Sky messages about government officials](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/vucic-veze-sa-podzemljem): The Student List called on Supreme Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac to appoint a prosecutor to conduct pre-investigation proceedings against former president Aleksandar Vučić, and on prosecutor Mladen Nenadić to open a case, over allegations of links to Darko Šarić's group in the Sky messages published by Radar.

## Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business

- [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): Irena Radović, Governor of the Central Bank of Montenegro, told a parliamentary committee that the Central Bank came under pressure through intermediaries after she rejected a request by Davor Macura's Alta Banka to take over Addiko Bank and enter two more Montenegrin banks. The security services were informed of the pressure.
- [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): The National Bank of Serbia stripped Alta Group, formerly Alta Pay, of its authorisation to carry out currency exchange and imposed fines of 250 million dinars for flagrant breaches of anti-money-laundering rules, a week after revoking Alta Banka's licence. It is sending its findings to the Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime.
- [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): The City of Vranje said that when Alta Banka lost its licence, the city had 177 million dinars of budget money in a term deposit there. It is asking the National Bank of Serbia to return the deposit and the Commercial Court in Belgrade to exclude the money from the bankruptcy estate.

## General Staff: lifting of protection and the Selaković trial

- [General Staff: lifting of protection and the Selaković trial](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/generalstab): Serbia's caretaker government has dismissed, at her own request, the acting secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Slavica Jelača, who has been charged with abuse of office in the General Staff case over the removal of the buildings' protected status.

## Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski: the diploma, the fines and the party's money

- [Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski: the diploma, the fines and the party's money](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/milica-djurdjevic-stamenkovski): The Union of Social Protection Employees filed a criminal complaint against Labour Minister Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski on suspicion of abuse of office and obstructing trade union activity, because the ministry has allegedly not ruled on registering new unions since May.

## 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 has temporarily suspended Igor Žmirić, commander of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit, after the First Basic Court in Belgrade ordered him detained; the deputy commander takes over the unit.
- [Marko Kričak threatened to rape a student in the Government garage](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/marko-kricak): The First Basic Court in Belgrade ordered detention for up to 30 days for nine current and former members of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities, among them Igor Žmirić, commander of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit, who are suspected of torturing students and citizens in the Government building's garage.

## Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation

- [Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/pomilovanja-27-septembra-2026): The Organised Crime Prosecutor's Office has urgently requested from the higher courts in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš the files on all 49 people pardoned by Aleksandar Vučić, to check whether there are grounds to suspect criminal offences; it gave the Ministry of Justice, which had not submitted the documentation, a deadline of 9 November.

## NoviSpy: spyware on activists' phones

- [NoviSpy: spyware on activists' phones](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/spijunski-softver-novispy): The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, the SHARE Foundation, Partners Serbia and NUNS have called for criminal proceedings against the director and senior officials of the Security Information Agency (BIA) and for an inquiry into the accountability of judges of the Higher Court in Belgrade over the covert surveillance of journalists, activists, prosecutors and the opposition.
- [NoviSpy: spyware on activists' phones](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/spijunski-softver-novispy): Democratic Party president Srđan Milivojević claims he has obtained his file from the Security Information Agency (BIA), which, according to him, shows that he and the DS premises in Belgrade and Kruševac were wiretapped. He has not shown the document; he is calling for the BIA to be disbanded.

## „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): Bratislav Dikić, warden of the Niš Correctional Institution, reportedly admitted in a letter to staff that on election day, on the orders of the “Headquarters” of the Administration for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions, the prison tracked capillary votes and voter turnout and sent reports to the central headquarters; he called this an oversight and apologised.

## Irregularities in the 2026 elections

- [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Niš questioned eight suspects over election-day attacks on bikers from the Student List's mobile teams and sought detention of up to 30 days for all of them on charges of violent behaviour. They reportedly include Branislav Kačar, a former city councillor for sport.
- [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Čačak has opened a case over claims of vote buying in the 25 October elections and of official documents being destroyed at public companies and institutions in the city after the elections, and has asked the police to gather information.
- [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Kraljevo and the Interior Ministry said that Rodoljub Rončević, governor of Zabela prison in Požarevac, had been arrested and held for up to 48 hours on suspicion of abuse of office and bribery in connection with voting, following claims that an SNS call centre operated in the prison on election day.
- [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): The Special Anti-Corruption Department of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Niš has opened a case and ordered the police to check claims that mayor Dragoslav Pavlović gave the club “Konstantin” 25 million dinars ahead of the elections; the club has reportedly received more than €340,000 from the budget this year.

## Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away

- [Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/tuzilastvo-sklanjanje-predmeta): The Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office commission has reportedly taken over 34 cases from the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, among them „Sound Cannon“, „Rectorate“, „Pardons“ and „Vista Rica“; a report on the first group of cases is expected on 9 November.

## Telekom's purchase of Kopernikus and media outlets

- [Telekom's purchase of Kopernikus and media outlets](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/telekom-kupovina-medija): Employees of TV Nova S, the Nova.rs portal, the Nova newspaper and the weekly Radar said they see the conduct of the owner, the Alpac Capital fund, as pressure, following attempts to change editorial policy and talk of shutting outlets down. They also said they do not want the Nova brand broken up to make closing it easier.

## 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): Petar Bošković, former head of the Ministry of Defence's Public Relations Department, claims the ministry ended its cooperation with RTS on the military programme “Dozvolite” because of a planned interview with military analyst Aleksandar Radić, and not, as it announced, because RTS failed to meet its obligations.
- [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): The Council of REM, the regulator for electronic media, has opened three more investigative proceedings against TV Informer, among them over breaching the election silence, as well as new proceedings against the broadcasters Kurir, B92 and K1; complaints filed solely over the word „blokader“ will be dismissed.

## Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades

- [Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/automobili-u-studente): Lawyer Milica Radović, who represents student Sonja Ponjavić, has filed a constitutional appeal with the Constitutional Court against Aleksandar Vučić's decision to pardon Marko Pavlović, who is indicted for her attempted murder in Ruzveltova Street; she is seeking the annulment of the pardon, and his trial has been postponed indefinitely.

## Dismissal and arrest of Novica Antić of the Military Union

- [Dismissal and arrest of Novica Antić of the Military Union](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/novica-antic-vojni-sindikat): The Ministry of Defence said that the Military Security Agency has no bot centre and has not wiretapped students, journalists or activists. It called the claims of Novica Antić, former president of the Military Trade Union, slander, and pointed out that he is on trial for alleged embezzlement.

## Death of Stanimir Brajković in Padinska Skela prison

- [Death of Stanimir Brajković in Padinska Skela prison](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/smrt-stanimira-brajkovica): The Higher Court in Belgrade convicted the Padinska Skela prison doctor at first instance and sentenced her to two and a half years in prison, and a shift leader to a year and a half, for negligence that led to the death of pensioner Stanimir Brajković (74); three commanders were acquitted.

## Death of Dalibor Dragijević at the police station in Bor

- [Death of Dalibor Dragijević at the police station in Bor](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/smrt-dalibora-dragijevica): On the orders of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Niš, eight officers of the Criminal Police Directorate have been arrested on suspicion of torture and of inflicting the grievous bodily injury from which Dalibor Dragijević died at the police station in Bor; the prosecution says earlier arrest orders were not carried out.

## 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): Radar reported that the state-owned company EXPO 2027 awarded security and cleaning for the exhibition complex in Surčin, worth around €63 million, to groups of firms led by T&M Group Solutions, which charges it up to 69% more per hour of security than it charges other state contracting authorities.

## T&M Group Solutions' government contracts

- [T&M Group Solutions' government contracts](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/tm-group-solutions-drzavni-poslovi): Radar reported that the security firm T&M Group Solutions, which had five employees in 2022, had about 22 billion dinars in revenue in 2025, that it was the only bidder in three state tenders, and that EXPO 2027 pays up to 69 percent more per hour of security.

## Attacks on journalists

- [Attacks on journalists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-novinare): Insajder reported that chants targeting its editor Brankica Stanković were once again heard from the stands of Belgrade Arena during a Partizan–Maccabi basketball game, just as in 2009, when the Interior Ministry gave her police protection after her series on hooligans.

## Police violence in Valjevo

- [Police violence in Valjevo](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/policijsko-nasilje-valjevo-2025): The Interior Ministry announced that Vlada Jerinić, head of the Valjevo Police Department, had been dismissed at his own request and reassigned to the information technology sector. Students and residents had demanded his departure over the beating of citizens in Valjevo in August 2025.

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As of: 6 Nov 2026  
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