The higher public prosecutor's office in Belgrade refused to publish data on how Siniša Mali paid for his children's education worth 235.000 euros, explaining that the case is "strictly confidential". The letter with this explanation was signed by the chief prosecutor Nenad Stefanović
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What does the letter say? As can be seen from the letter published on the X social network, Jerinić sent a request to the High Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade for information and explanations that the parliamentarian presented at the session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia on May 8, 2025, which reads: "In connection with the letter of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption dated August 4, 2016, a case was formed in the Special Department for the Suppression of Corruption of the Prosecutor General's Office in Belgrade, who was the acting prosecutor and in that case, what actions have been undertaken in connection with that case, if the investigation has been suspended, submit the act by which it was done, how many criminal reports against Sinisa Malog have been submitted to the VJT in the period from the beginning of 2016 to today, and for which criminal acts the reports have been submitted and what is the outcome of the proceedings against them in the VJT?" Chief Public Prosecutor Nenad Stefanović submitted the following notification: "The above-mentioned report of the Anti-corruption Agency in VJT in accordance with the Law on Data Secrecy, as well as the Regulation on closer criteria for determining the degree of secrecy "state secret" and "strictly confidential" in public authorities, is kept under the designation of the degree of secrecy strictly confidential (p.p.v.). Please note that Article 6 of the Rulebook of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office on access to information of public importance... stipulates that information that is kept in the prosecutor's office under the level of secrecy, cannot be delivered to the applicant or to other unauthorized persons outside the public prosecutor's office. Also, by the provision of Art. 9 point 5 of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance, it is prescribed that the authority will not enable the requester to exercise the right to access information of public importance, if by doing so he would make available information or a document for which regulations or an official act based on the Law determined to be kept as secret information or represents a business or professional secret, or information obtained in the representation procedure for the publication of which the represented person did not give approval, in accordance with the Law, which regulates the work of the public defender's office, and the disclosure of which could serious legal and other consequences for interests protected by law, which prevail over the public's right to know, may occur. The acting prosecutor in the specific case was the then public prosecutor of the VJT in Belgrade, Tanja Vukićević, and the VJT in Belgrade acted in the said case in accordance with the law and legal authority". 16 criminal charges against Mali To the question about the number of criminal charges, the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade replied that in the period from the beginning of 2016 until today, a total of 16 criminal charges were filed for criminal offenses under Article 212, paragraph 3, Article 234a, Article 366, Article 336b and Article 391, paragraph 3 of the Criminal Code, of which seven cases were found to contain no criminal offense, in four cases a decision was made to dismiss the criminal charges, five cases were transferred to the jurisdiction of other public prosecutions (three cases in the First OJT and two cases in the JTOK). KRIK journalists announced at the beginning of May that the education of the children of the Minister of Finance and the former mayor of Belgrade, Siniša Mali, is in a prestigious private school in Belgrade. cost over 235.000 euros – more than double what he could earn from his salary. However, the school's expenses were paid for with money of dubious origin that poured in from several mysterious offshore companies. KRIK and OCCRP journalists, following the trail of money, discovered that behind one of those offshore companies Mali himself is hiding, behind another is a domestic businessman unknown to the general public, while the third is closely connected with the international group "Comita" based in Moscow. In Serbia, "Comita" cooperates with the companies of SNS businessman Ivan Bošnjak and Stojan Vujek, owner of "Millenijum Team".', 'pageDate': '2025-05-23 18:25:04', 'pageAuthor': authors, 'visitorType': visitor_type, }); console.log(post_id); console.log('Pushed'); });The case related to school fees for the children of Siniša Malog in VJT is being handled as a strictly pov (but real). Since 2016, 16 criminal charges have been filed against SM at this prosecutor's office, 11 have been dismissed or VJT thinks there is no criminal offense, 5 are still uncertain.#whorušiosavamali@nedavimobgd pic.twitter.com/tlqEEBY6PC
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