The police have been searching the houses of the former president of the Military Union of Serbia (VSS) Novica Antic and his brother Vas since early this morning. Their lawyer Ivan Ninic verbally clashed with police inspectors who, according to him, are trying to prevent him from making statements to the media.
Arm News of Antica, Vasu Antic, a detention of 48 hours was determined, he told N1 lawyer Ivan Ninić.
He will, it is added, be questioned in Kraljevo on Saturday.
According to Ninić, there is no reason to investigate its operations after so many years since the closure of the family business, and that this is another in a series of pressures on Novica Antic and his family, after his release from custody.
Tax Administration statement
The Ministry of Finance, namely the Tax Administration, announced the arrest of Vas Antic, without stating in the statement when the criminal offense for which the detained Antic was charged was committed, the portal Nova.rs reported.
"One person, the founder and responsible person in several business entities, was arrested, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of tax evasion, which damaged the budget of the RS in the amount of over 83 million dinars, as well as the criminal offense of abuse of the position of an official, which Illegal property benefit in the amount of over 14 million dinars was obtained," the announcement stated.
Based on the Share Transfer Agreement, the suspect transferred shares with a total value of 101.963.043 dinars to himself, as a natural person, even though at that time he was employed in another company and even though he was obliged to calculate, report and pay taxes on other incomes of citizens and mandatory withholding contributions in the total amount of RSD 83.559.234.
In the announcement of the Tax Administration, it is added that during the business cooperation of the arrested person, in his capacity as the founder and responsible person of one business company with another business company, which he hired for the purpose of providing forwarding services and transportation of goods abroad, an unpaid debt in the amount of 14.354.370 dinars remained. , which obtained illegal property benefits.
It was also stated that the suspect, with the submission of a joint criminal report, will be brought to the competent public prosecutor's office.
Although the initials of the suspect were not mentioned in the announcement, as lawyer Ivan Ninić confirmed to the portal Nova.rs, it is Vaso Antic, the brother of the former president of the Military Union of Serbia (VSS).
Ninic points out that it is unusual that there is no date anywhere in the announcement, or even the year when the alleged criminal acts were committed, and the time period in question is from 2015 to 2018, when the company ceased to exist.
"It is unusual for the procedure to be initiated six years after the company ceased operations, and I assume that it is actually related to the activities of Novica Antic." "It is unbelievable that for years, no inspection, no control, no one noticed irregularities or abuses in the business of a private company, and that the whole case was only started now," Ninic said.
Novica Antić was supposed to be a guest on television
Ninić previously told FoNet that Novica Antić and his brother left this morning for Belgrade, where he was supposed to be a guest on Nova S television, but they were stopped by a police patrol on the highway.
They authenticated them and told the Antici to return to Kragujevac because the house was being searched in the yard, Ninic reported, explaining that the brothers were replaced in the driver's seat.
The police said that the subject of interest is Vaso, not Novica Antic.
Let us recall that lawyer Ninić previously said that police officers from the Department for the Prevention of Corruption in Kragujevac came this morning to search the Antić family home in Kragujevac.
They told the Antic family and their defense attorney that, by order of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Kraljevo, they should find documentation related to the operations of the family business of the Antic family, which was engaged in the export of fruit and which, by the way, has not been owned by them since 2017, and since 2018 . is turned off.
Verbal conflict between lawyer Ninić and the inspector
During this police action, a verbal conflict took place between the lawyer Ivan Ninić and the inspectors who are in Antić's house.
Namely, Ninić went out in front of the house to give a statement to the reporters of TV N1, but right before the start of the interview, two inspectors came out of the house and tried to prevent Ninić from giving a statement to the media.
"Here, I am being threatened with arrest for the criminal offense of obstruction of justice and obstruction of the investigation because I make statements to the media, and here we are dealing with the destruction of a family, the arrest, persecution, erasure of the Antić family from the scene. The whole of Serbia is witnessing this, the entire repressive apparatus is directed towards this - the Novi Sad police, the Kragujevac police, the prosecutor's office," said Ninić angrily while the police inspectors stood next to him.
Ninic says that he cannot do his job as a lawyer.
"I cannot give statements to the media, because it frustrates the police inspectors who read the headlines all morning, follow what is written on the portals." The most important thing for them is what is written on the portals," said Ninic.
As he said, the same repressive measures were applied to Milan Vukomanović.
"To their colleague from Kragujevac, they moved the police officer to the counter, just because he entered Slobodan Tešić's company and wanted to conduct an investigation on the order of the prosecution. I'm going now so we don't cause a problem for the Antic family, so I'll come back," Ninic said.
The N1 reporter from Kragujevac also said that the inspectors were unpleasant to the journalists and did not allow them to film them, even though they are located on a public surface, in front of the yard of the Antić family's house.
Let us remind you that Antic was arrested at the end of February on suspicion of abusing his position in the Supreme Court and embezzling money, but since no indictment was filed within six months, he was recently released from custody.
Source: Fonet / N1 / Nova
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