According to Insajder and BIRN, in 2021 and 2022 the ministry awarded hundreds of millions of dinars to organisations with no offices, phones or references, many of them founded just before the call for applications, and almost half of the money in 2022 went to a single network of at least 21 organisations. The ministry says the criteria were „strict and extremely clearly defined“. Since 2023 the Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime has been conducting pre-investigation proceedings on a criminal complaint against former minister Ratko Dmitrović.