Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade (BETAPHOTO/Ana Slovic)
The prosecution and police had been waiting for the go-ahead from certain individuals to start activities relating to arrests that had been made as part of the ongoing clamp down on corruption in Serbia, Jasmina Paunovic, a prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecution Office in Belgrade, said on Feb. 18.
“There exist higher interests which prevail over the need to have those individuals arrested. And what those interests are becomes clear on the ground. We have recently witnessed various situations, such as student (protests) and other developments that have impacted the course of events,” Paunovic told Belgrade daily Nova.
Speaking about a number of anti-corruption cases, which have recently seen 50 people arrested and 58 criminal charges filed, Paunovic wondered why those cases had been sitting on the shelf for so long.
“Is it possible that such cases have been used for manipulation and trade-offs? And it has been done by those whose obligation was to act in accordance with the law and their respective competences. Those are the people working for the prosecution and the police and who are responsible for the outcome of these cases,” she said.
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