# City of Pirot

It issued 47 permits for diversion-type small hydropower plants on Stara Planina, which would have put some 42 kilometres of streams into pipes, then introduced a moratorium in 2019 and in 2021 adopted a spatial plan without small hydropower plants. RERI filed criminal complaints against the mayor and the head of the city administration on suspicion that they unlawfully granted the investor in one plant passage through public property; no proceedings have been opened.

## Affairs

- [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): In September, it placed up to 400 million dinars of budget money on deposit at Alta Banka, and after the bankruptcy it is asking the court to release the money to it
- [Small hydropower plants and Stara Planina](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/mini-hidroelektrane): According to a criminal complaint by RERI, in 2017 the mayor and the head of the city administration unlawfully gave the hydropower investor the right to run a pipeline through public property

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/grad-pirot  
As of: 9 Nov 2026  
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