How Mladen Nenadic went from a "politically controlled prosecutor" to the main target of Aleksandar Vučić and his tabloids
One man leads a "prosecutorial coup d'état" carried out at the "order of the Europeans", tabloids in Serbia have been claiming since this morning (August 1st).. The same man, just a few weeks ago, had a target painted on his face because of a joint photo with "potential suspects in the fall of the canopy" and Dejan Bodirog.
It is about Mladen Nenadić, special prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (JTOK).
"Novosti" accuses him, and other regime media take over such a narrative, that he actually leads "prosecutorial coups". This is what they call the action of arresting the former minister of trade Tomislav Momirović and 13 other people, after a months-long investigation conducted by JTOK due to financial malfeasance in connection with due to the fall of the canopy of the Railway Station in Novi Sad.
On TV Informer Dragan J. Vučićević immediately demanded the arrest of prosecutor Nenadić, shouted that certain prosecutors had rebelled against the state.
"Of course it's a coup!" exclaimed Vučićević, because "they are arresting people without any evidence".
In fact, just a few weeks ago, he announced the attack on the prosecutor - I am the president of the country..
How the bar photo caused an avalanche of attacks on prosecutor Mladen Nenadić
A politically controlled prosecutor?
Mladen Nenadić was born in 1963 in Čačak.
In the official biography allegations that he graduated from the Faculty of Law in Kragujevac in 1987, and that he passed the bar exam in 1990, Istinomer reports.
He worked as an intern at a law office in Čačak until 1995
he was employed as an inspector and head of the Department for Suppression of Economic Crime in the Ministry of Interior. He was elected deputy public prosecutor in the Municipal Public Prosecutor's Office in Čačak in 1995. He states that he has been working as a lawyer since 2004 and that his main activity was criminal law.
"Total work experience in criminal matters is 25 years," he stated in his biography.
He became the head of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime on January 1, 2016, and KRIK wrote at the time that he was voted in as an "almost unknown lawyer."
"For months it has been said in judicial circles that the government's wish is for Nenadić to be appointed to one of the most important positions in the state, and his election was followed by various controversies. In a state that has not dealt with organized crime and corruption, the last thing citizens need is a politically controlled prosecutor," wrote KRIK in 2015.
KRIK also reported the procedure by which Nenadić became a prosecutor, and they stated that he took an "immediate and confident approach". In his program, they added, it seemed as if he expected to be elected to that position. In the application, he started sentences with: 'As soon as I become a prosecutor for organized crime...'".
He received a new six-year mandate at the end of 2021. During these six years, the public did not have much opportunity to see him and receive information from him about ongoing cases.
"He spoke to journalists only in July 2021, when they were invited to hear behind closed doors the details of the investigation against the organized criminal group of Veljko Belivuk. He coordinated this investigation, but it did not touch on the relationship between politics and the police that the members of this group had been building for years. Nenadić did not answer questions at the conference, and no filming or photography was allowed," KRIK 2021 writes further.
An unexpected target
Then one day, in July 2025, Nenadić found himself the target of tabloids close to the authorities.
Against the chief public prosecutor Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime a criminal complaint was also filed. As the crowning evidence against him, a photo appeared in which he is in a "tavern environment", in the society of the unfit for power of the former basketball player Dejan Bodiroga and the rector of the University of Belgrade Vladan Djokic. Vice-rector Nebojša Bojović, who is also the former president of the Serbian Railway Infrastructure Assembly, held that position at the time of the fall of the canopy and resigned after it fell, as well as the former executive director of the Serbian Railway Infrastructure Milutin Milošević.
The photo, the media wrote, was taken from a private celebration in a Belgrade restaurant, on the occasion of the birth and discharge of the host's granddaughter from the maternity ward, and served as the start of the hunt for special prosecutor Mladen Nenadić and the "discovery" of another alleged conspiracy and coup d'état against the regime of Aleksandar Vučić.
"Is this some kind of illegal influence by prosecutor Nenadić on Milošević and Bojović, or is it the other way around? There is no doubt that drinking wine in a cheerful pub atmosphere with people who are deeply connected to one of the most important cases in the country is unusual to say the least, especially since the actions of the Public Prosecutor's Office for organized crime in this case are accompanied by numerous controversies," the criminal complaint stated.
Pre-arranged chase
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said at the time that "this story is much more serious than it seems."
"You said that someone filed a criminal complaint because they were in the bar. No, it was filed for serious crimes, but that's up to the prosecutor's office," commented Vučić and added that some people "went so far as to arrest everyone in the country in order not to curry favor with the blockaders, including me, and to do the dirtiest work for foreign powers."
Vučić also said that it is indicative that the canopy case was moved to Nenadić.
"And for what, who should they protect and who should they prosecute? Well, now we see who. People are right when they talk about corruption. They say that Vučić is to blame, who appointed them, and I don't even know who those people are. But someone of ours appointed them. It doesn't snow to cover the hill, but for every beast to show its mark," said Vučić on July 11.
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