EPS (BETAPHOTO/ AMIR HAMZAGIC)
On the orders of the Special Anti-corruption Division of the Higher Public Prosecution in Belgrade, the Crime Police Department have arrested M.G., the former general director of the Serbian Electric Power Company (EPS) public enterprise, and 14 other persons, on suspicion that they had committed a variety of crimes from 2018 to 2021, causing damage to the company, by which they provided themselves and others with financial benefit, which they subsequently inserted into legal money flows.
Chief Higher Prosecutor in Belgrade Nenad Stefanovic has stated that the individuals would be investigated on the basis of grounded suspicion that they had abused their official position and authority in public procurement procedures for EPS, causing damage to the public enterprise in the amount exceeding RSD100 million – the amount of the illegal financial benefit for themselves and others, the Higher Public Prosecution has stated.
Some of the accused are also suspected of giving and taking bribe in the form of financial gifts, which they covered by committing the crime of money laundering, Stefanovic has stated. In his words, the Prosecution will also order a financial investigation against the suspects and persons connected with them.
The arrested are suspected of the following crimes: abuse of official position, abuse of the position of responsible official, money laundering, taking or giving bribe and influence trading. They are all on 48-hour remand during which they are to be questioned.
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