Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia

It did not answer BIRN or Danas about the discrepancy in the number of COVID deaths ahead of the 2020 elections, and the prosecutor's office requested information from it of all bodies, even though the complaint also covered the minister. According to BIRN, since 2016 it has awarded twelve contracts worth about €14 million to consortia led by NITES, a company where the husband of the then justice minister works. Minister Zlatibor Lončar called a minor who, according to media reports, was beaten by police in Valjevo an “invented patient”.

Affairs

  • COVID death data hidden ahead of the elections: It received the real daily death figures from Batut, while the numbers released to the public were as low as a third of them
  • NITES: contracts of the firm of Kuburović's husband and Kisić Tepavčević's brother: Since 2016 it has awarded NITES consortia 12 contracts worth about €14 million; according to Transparency Serbia, mostly with a single bidder
  • The “Helicopter” Case: Military Helicopter Crash near Surčin: According to a FoNet journalist, a report that the helicopter had landed came from its press release; it was published before the news of the crash and then deleted
  • Police violence in Valjevo: Its minister denied that a minor had been beaten.
  • Destruction of official records after the elections

People

  • Nikola Pandrc: chief of staff to the Minister of Health
  • Zlatibor Lončar: minister of health
  • Verica Jovanović: chair of the Commission for the Analysis of Deaths Caused by COVID-19
  • Predrag Sazdanović: state secretary at the Ministry of Health
  • Zlatibor Lončar: minister of health