# Aleksandar Vučić

He used pardons in ten affairs. Before any verdict, he spared from prosecution the attackers of students in Novi Sad, drivers who hit people with their cars and members of the Niš Headquarters. He also pardoned the only person convicted over the explosion in Lučani. The leader of the Belivuk group claims that he asked the group for favours, which he denies. Šarić's Sky messages allegedly refer to him as "Čvarak", who promises a pardon. Of the demolition in Savamala, he said that he had made the decision, but that it should have been done in daylight.

## Affairs

- [Concession of Nikola Tesla Airport to Vinci](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/aerodrom-koncesija-vinci): After the payment he said the process had been "clean and transparent", and in late 2016 that the state could invest in the airport on its own
- [Wind Farm Affair](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/afera-vetropark): He called the affair involving his best man “fabricated” and said the editor of the portal that published the transcript was worse than the editor of “Tabloid”
- [Aflatoxin in milk: Government raises the permitted limit](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/aflatoksin-2013): Announced at least four dismissals and a return of the limit to 0.05 within 15 days
- [Arrest warrant for Aleksandar Radić over the "sound cannon"](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/aleksandar-radic-progon): President of the Republic; commented on the search on TV Informer, and later on Radić's case
- [Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/alta-banka): Ahead of the 2026 elections he launched a podcast with Alta Banka among its main sponsors
- [Arrest of Ana Lalić over an article on the Clinical Centre of Vojvodina](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/ana-lalic-hapsenje-2020): The Prime Minister said she would withdraw the decision on public information at his express request
- [The Asomakum case: a company in Andrej Vučić’s name](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/andrej-vucic-lazna-licna-karta): Told Parliament it was a forgery and that Asomakum does not belong to his brother
- [Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/automobili-u-studente): He told the police to protect even "illegal" blockades from cars, and said that "the citizens should judge" those who block roads
- [The Banjska attack and Radoičić's lack of an indictment in Serbia](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/banjska-2023): He denied any link between Belgrade and the attack and said the attackers “will never be terrorists”
- [The Belivuk group and its ties to the state](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/belivuk-veze-sa-drzavom): In 2021 he said he had never met Belivuk's group and that, if anyone could prove otherwise, he was willing to go behind bars „for life“
- [Belgrade Waterfront – a special law and the contract with Eagle Hills](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/beograd-na-vodi-ugovor): As a candidate in 2012 he announced a tender for the project, and in 2014 he presented the sole investor's master plan with Alabar
- [SNS bots and who organises them](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/botovi-sns): Said in 2020 he had no idea what it was about, and in 2023 posted "Yes, I am an SNS bot"
- [Government gives the Serbian Orthodox Church millions from the budget reserve](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/budzetska-rezerva-spc): He said that "no one has helped as much as the SNS government" the Serbian Orthodox Church; a month after the eparchy that decorated him in 2026 did so, it received a million euros
- [“Ćacilend”: a pro-government supporters' camp in Pionirski Park](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/cacilend): According to Dragan Dobrašinović's initiative, the camp was set up with his support, and he called setting up Ćacilend a "decisive decision"
- [Lawyer Čedomir Stojković arrested over his posts](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/cedomir-stojkovic): Denied firing from Army of Republika Srpska positions; Stojković claims his arrest is revenge for the criminal complaint
- [Acquittal in the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/curuvija-pravosudje): As minister, he signed the law under which “Evropljanin” was fined, and in 2013 he promised to resign if the murder was not solved
- [The Danka Ilić case and the police's handling of it](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/danka-ilic-rad-policije): According to an analysis by Danas, although he has no authority to disclose details of an investigation, he announced the girl's murder and the suspects' confessions at a government session
- [Police beat students outside the Faculty of Sport (DIF) in Novi Sad](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/dif-novi-sad-2025): After the student charged with attacking the dean was released, he apologised to Drid and publicly criticised the work of the prosecutors and the court
- [Dijana Hrka targeted by Informer and Vučićević](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/dijana-hrka): Was the first to say that Hrka had secretly recorded their conversation, and claimed someone was forcing her into the strike, which she calls a lie
- [Dejan Đurđević seriously injured a pedestrian, complaint dismissed](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/djurdjevic-pesacki-prelaz)
- [Siniša Mali's annulled doctorate](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/doktorat-sinise-malog): He called the decision on Mali's doctorate deeply political, and a day later said Mali must pay a political price
- [Explosion at the MB Namenska factory in Lučani](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/eksplozija-namenska-lucani): He pardoned Tomo Stojić, the only manager sentenced to prison over an explosion that killed two workers
- [The collapse of EPS under Milorad Grčić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/eps-kolaps-grcic): He said the system had gone down because they had not paid attention to the coal, and called on Grčić to bear responsibility
- [EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/expo-2027): He presented a €17.8 billion programme that, according to Transparency Serbia, the Government does not hold as a document, and admitted the stadium was behind schedule
- [Weekly “Vranjske” shut down after tax inspections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/gasenje-vranjskih): According to Obradović, he called him, said he would get back to him and never did; he said they had helped the paper four times as much
- [General Staff: lifting of protection and the Selaković trial](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/generalstab): According to Dubravka Đukanović, he attended the meeting at which she was asked to lift the protection; he has announced pardons for the accused
- [Novi Sad activists charged with overthrowing the constitutional order](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/hapsenje-aktivista-drzavni-udar-2025): Before the recording aired, he announced evidence of “preparations for a coup” against the activists, all of whom he pardoned in 2026
- [Irregularities in the 2022 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-april-2022): According to ODIHR, as a candidate he announced and opened public infrastructure projects during the campaign, which contributed to an uneven playing field
- [Irregularities in the 2023 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-decembar-2023): According to ODIHR, his decisive involvement, together with the ruling party's systemic advantages, created unfair conditions in the elections
- [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): According to ODIHR, as president he sent a letter to all pensioners in the middle of the campaign, which was alleged to be campaign material
- [The „Jadar“ project and the persecution of locals and activists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jadar-rio-tinto): He initiated the withdrawal of the Expropriation Act, and in December 2021 he said the Jadar project would not be withdrawn
- [Marijuana plantation on the “Jovanjica” estate](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jovanjica): He confirmed that Koluvija had been with him at a forum in Moscow and questioned the detention
- [Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jovina-gimnazija): He defended the principal, saying he had done nothing wrong and had been put behind bars
- [Igor Novaković convicted over procurement at Niš-based “Jugoistok”](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jugoistok-novakovic): He pardoned Novaković for abuse of office six months after the final verdict; the public only learned of it on 3 November
- [Campaign against Ombudsman Saša Janković](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/kampanja-protiv-zastitnika-gradjana): He said he would let Janković do his job and that the decision on dismissing Gašić and Cvetković should be left to him, and after Janković announced his candidacy, that he had abused his office
- [Kokeza's Sky messages about an attack on Nemanja Vidić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/kokeza-skaj-vidic): He said he did not understand why Kokeza refused a polygraph, and in 2026 that neither Vidić nor Kokeza mattered much to him
- [COVID death data hidden ahead of the elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/kovid-skriveni-podaci): Called BIRN's article hypocritical, said he trusted the Crisis Response Team's data and announced a review of every death
- [Krušik: arms sales to the GIM company](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/krusik): Said Branko Stefanović was employed at GIM, then that he was “obviously” wrong because “they say he isn't”
- [Attacks by thugs and vote buying in the Kula elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/kula-crvenka-lokalni-izbori-2026): He declared victory for SNS in Kula and said there had been more Zagreb licence plates there than local ones
- [Vietnamese workers at the Linglong factory in Zrenjanin](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/linglong-zrenjanin): He said the inspectors were sent because of pressure, that he would not drive investors away and that a campaign was being waged against Linglong
- [Brutal arrest of Savo Manojlović on the Old Sava Bridge](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/manojlovic-hapsenje-stari-savski-most): According to Manojlović, the orders to mistreat him and the councillor on the bridge went through Vučić and his office
- [The Marija Lukić case: Milutin Jeličić Jutka convicted](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/marija-lukic-jutka): He said Jeličić “didn't lie about anything” and left the case to the court
- [Marko Kričak threatened to rape a student in the Government garage](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/marko-kricak): In a letter to the European Commission, he defended the “legitimate actions of the police” and stated that Sinđelić is a member of an opposition party
- [Marko Vidojković: death threats, smear campaigns and exile](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/marko-vidojkovic-egzil): According to ECPMF, in 2025 he personally took part in verbal attacks on him and Kulačin on the "Hit Tvit" show on TV Pink
- [No-tender deals under intergovernmental agreements](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/medjudrzavni-sporazumi-kina): In 2020 he signed the decree on the amendments to the agreement with China; in 2024 he blamed the former government for the secrecy of the contracts
- [Small hydropower plants and Stara Planina](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/mini-hidroelektrane): Said in 2021 that his best man got his permits for mini hydropower plants from the Democratic Party government
- [Attack on the Old Sava Bridge protest near Belgrade Waterfront](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napad-na-protest-stari-savski-most)
- [SNS supporters attack citizens in Vrbas and Bačka Palanka](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-demonstrante-avgust-2025): He condemned the wrecking of SNS offices in Novi Sad and said everyone who had been violent would be held accountable
- [Attacks on journalists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-novinare): He told journalist Tatalović that she was part of a “media platform” taking part in an attempt to overthrow the government
- [Collapse of the canopy at Novi Sad railway station](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/novi-sad-nadstresnica): According to a letter from the contractor, he asked for the section to Subotica to be finished ahead of schedule; according to Istinomer, work on the station was rushed for the 2022 opening.
- [Attack on students outside the SNS offices in Novi Sad](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/novi-sad-napad-na-studente): He pardoned the four defendants in the attack before the trial ended, having earlier backed the blockade of the court with the message “Freedom for the heroes”
- [Dismissal and arrest of Novica Antić of the Military Union](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/novica-antic-vojni-sindikat)
- [Belgrade's New Year lights and the company Keep Light](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/novogodisnja-rasveta): He said the Christmas tree costs €69,000 and that three bids had come in, but there was only one bid
- [Obrenovac flood: late warning and evacuation](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/obrenovac-poplave-2014): Put most of the blame on the local authorities, promised those responsible would be found and denied there had been any censorship
- [The “Helicopter” Case: Military Helicopter Crash near Surčin](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/pad-helikoptera-2015): He defended Gašić and Lončar and said he was taking responsibility
- [Arson attack on journalist Milan Jovanović's house in Vrčin](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/paljenje-kuce-milana-jovanovica): Announced Simonović's arrest and said a party membership card does not protect anyone from accountability
- [The “Palma” case: procuring of underage girls in Jagodina](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/palma-jagodina): He said police would question everyone, from Marković to Tepić, and called on those involved to come forward to the prosecutors
- [„Safe votes“ and jobs in the public sector](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/partijsko-zaposljavanje-sigurni-glasovi): He said call centres are not banned, announced a tax inspection and questioned the recording about the daily pay
- [Pećinci: opposition supporters' children removed from preschool](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/pecinci-vrtic-luki-komerc): Said the kindergarten in Pećinci had no places for 74 children and that a new kindergarten was the solution
- [Fifth Belgrade Grammar School: teacher dismissals and suspensions](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/peta-beogradska-gimnazija): For Statehood Day, he personally presented Nešović with a gold medal for merit
- [Police beat citizens at blockades in Belgrade](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/policijsko-nasilje-beograd-jul-2025): He called the force used by police at the blockades „minimal“ and a response to provocations and attacks
- [Police violence in Valjevo](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/policijsko-nasilje-valjevo-2025): Called the story of the beaten boy “a lie” and the anniversary “satanic rituals”, and held a rally in Valjevo
- [Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/pomilovanja-27-septembra-2026): He announced that he had pardoned 49 people, 23 of them linked to the events of the past year and a half: 12 from the "Novi Sad group" and 11 from the other side
- [Driver hits female student on Jurija Gagarina Street](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/pomilovanje-vozacice-gagarina): He pardoned the driver who hit a student, so the court dismissed the indictment and there was no trial
- [Sale of PKB to Al Dahra](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/prodaja-pkb): He said the sale of PKB was done by the law and that the tender proves there was no corruption
- [Pressure on bus operator Milomir Jaćimović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/progon-autoprevoznika-jacimovica): He said Jaćimović had been "urged to kill himself"
- [Police violence at the protests against the curfew](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/protesti-jul-2020): On 7 July 2020 he announced a ban on gatherings of more than five people and a curfew from Friday to Monday
- [Anti-money laundering administration ran checks on journalists and NGOs](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/provera-racuna-novinara-nvo-2020): He said these were “the most ordinary checks” and that four ministers had also been processed by the Administration
- [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): He said on TV Pink that he had asked the owner to scrap reality shows before the matter was discussed at the REM
- [Šapić attacked councillor Tatjana Mićić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/sapic-napad-na-odbornicu-micic): Said Šapić was responsible for the incident because, as a public official, he should have walked away
- [The Savamala case: demolition in Hercegovačka Street](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/savamala): By his own 2023 statement, he made the decision to demolish; according to Ristić, his office gave the green light
- [Siniša Mali and 24 flats in Bulgaria](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/sinisa-mali-stanovi-bugarska): He told KRIK journalists they had not proved it because “a court ruling shows otherwise”, without saying which ruling he meant
- [Death of lawyer Vladimir Cvijan](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/smrt-vladimira-cvijana): According to Cvijan's 2013 criminal complaint, he tried to physically attack him and insulted him
- [Suspicious 40,000-dinar donations to the SNS](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/sns-sumnjive-donacije): His 2017 campaign received more than two million euros from donors making identical payments
- [Dragana Sotirovski and the Niš Emergency Situations Headquarters](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/sotirovski-stab-nis): The day before the trial opened, he freed fifteen Headquarters members charged with abuse of office from criminal prosecution
- [NoviSpy: spyware on activists' phones](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/spijunski-softver-novispy): President of the Republic; dismissed the spying allegations in 2026
- [Ministers' disputed doctorates](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/sporni-doktorati): He called the reasoning that Stefanović's doctorate was plagiarised the stupidest he had ever heard
- [The “Banana” affair: Dačić's meetings with Miša Banana](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/sps-afera-banana): After the 2014 election he formed a government with Dačić and stated that there had been no evidence to indict him
- [Students as “terrorists”: a campaign by the authorities and tabloids](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/studenti-teroristi-kampanja): On 29 October 2026, he said that “real revolutionary terror” was being carried out on the streets on the orders of foreigners
- [Dismissal and indictment of Dr Tatjana Adžić Vukičević](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/tatjana-adzic-vukicevic)
- [Telekom's purchase of Kopernikus and media outlets](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/telekom-kupovina-medija): According to what Lučić says in the recording, he demanded the removal of Aleksandra Subotić, the head of United Media
- [Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/tuzilastvo-sklanjanje-predmeta): According to the European Commission, he made inappropriate comments about investigations and the work of prosecutors and judges, including threats of dismissal
- [Attack on Student List victory celebration in Ub](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/ub-napad-na-slavlje-studentske-liste)
- [The „Senjak“ case: a restaurant murder and Veselin Milić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/ubistvo-nesovica-veselin-milic): After the arrest he said no one is protected, and in June that he would neither lead a witch hunt against Milić nor protect him
- [Murder of Oliver Ivanović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/ubistvo-olivera-ivanovica): Claimed in 2018 that Radoičić did not kill Ivanović and had passed a polygraph, and in 2019 that Serbia believed it had the killer's name
- [Doljevac case: crash of Zoran Babić's official car](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/udes-kod-doljevca): According to the family's lawyer, he withheld from the court footage that, by his own account, he had watched; he never gave it to the family and later said he did not have it
- [Pressure on universities and professors' salaries](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/univerzitet-uskracivanje-plata): President of the Republic; said professors in blockade would not get paid ("potatoes")
- [Police raid NPS offices on local election day](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/upad-policije-u-nps-lokalni-izbori-2026): Claimed on election night that NPS officials had phoned voters posing as people from the Office of the President and that they would all be arrested
- [Arrests and detention of blockade participants in Užice](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/uzice-hapsenja-jul-2025): Responding to the lawyers' strike, he said he "couldn't care less" and that they would answer for criminal offences like everyone else
- [Police violence after the Vidovdan protest](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/vidovdanski-protest-policija-2025): He accused the students of calling for clashes with the police, and called anaesthesiologist Vladimir S. a "donkey" who had been "beating police officers with a stick".
- [Criminals' Sky messages about government officials](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/vucic-veze-sa-podzemljem): He and his brother Andrej are allegedly mentioned in a new batch of Sky messages that the Interior Ministry did not pass on to the prosecution
- [Dragan J. Vučićević knocks down a young woman on a pedestrian crossing in Žarkovo](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/vucicevic-pesacki-zarkovo): He said the authorities had acted professionally and that the claim that Vučićević had been drunk was “a pure lie”
- [Vulin bypassed security screening escorted by BIA](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/vulin-let-za-moskvu): He blamed the plane's return on an “errand boy” who wanted to curry favour with the Student List, and put the damage at no less than a million euros
- [Zijin in Bor and Majdanpek: pollution, relocations and workers](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/zijin-bor): In 2021 he demanded that Zijin deliver clean air in Bor by the end of the year; in 2026 he said he would “beg” it over concentrate containing arsenic
- [The Niš court president, a parole and a Zlatibor voucher](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/zivadinovic-vaucer-zlatibor): By a decision of 27 September 2026, he pardoned and exempted from prosecution a judge on trial for granting parole in exchange for a voucher
- [“Sound cannon” at Belgrade protest](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/zvucni-top-15-mart): According to a criminal complaint by the Democratic Party, he used an acoustic weapon at the protest on 15 March 2025.

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/aleksandar-vucic  
As of: 9 Nov 2026  
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