No Punishment for the Prosecutor who Denied Access to Vladimir Cvijan Case Documents

Vladimir Cvijan (BetaPhoto/Milan Timotic)

The Misdemeanor Court in Belgrade has dismissed on statute of limitations grounds the case against prosecutor Natasa Krivokapic, the former chief of the High Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade, who was in charge of the case of a former Serbian Progressive Party high official, Vladimir Cvijan, whose body was recovered from the Danube in 2018, Belgrade daily Nova reported in its July 11 issue.

Attorney Ivan Ninic, who has filed a report against prosecutor Krivokapic, after he had on several occasions requested information and access to the case documents, told the daily that the decision to dismiss the case “under statute of limitations is the best proof of how judiciary employees protect each other.”

Ninic filed a report against Natasa Krivokapic in July 2021, saying that she, in the capacity of the chief of the High Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade, did not enable access to the information relating to the Cvijan case.”

In his request, attorney Ninic demanded information on whether the Cvijan case had been previously registered under “other label or number,” whether it had been merged with some other case, and which documents were contained in the subject case file.