The director of the Railway Infrastructure of Serbia, Jelena Tanasković, at the hearing in the prosecutor's office, transferred all responsibility for the Novi Sad Railway Station project to former minister Goran Vesić, and lawyer Ivan Ninić claims that the recent Minister of Construction and Infrastructure, Goran Vesić, transferred the responsibility to his closest associates.
The acting director of the Railway Infrastructure of Serbia is suspected Jelena Tanasković at the hearing at the prosecutor's office, she shifted all responsibility for the Novi Sad Railway Station project on former minister Goran Vesić, according to documents that New Economy had access to. In her testimony before the prosecutor, Tanasković claimed that Vesić insisted that he lead all the projects because he allegedly agreed with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.
At the same time, lawyer Ivan Ninić shared on the social network X, as he stated, a document of the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure in which the persons responsible for large projects that have been carried out in Serbia in recent years are identified, but none of them mentions their names. Goran Vesić.
"Minister Vesić told me that this is the only condition for me to be the director (of the Railway Infrastructure of Serbia, author's note), to accept that he absolutely manages and leads all projects, because he allegedly agreed with the president that all projects are exclusively managed that way ", Tanasković said.
This can be seen from the testimony of a former official given on November 22 at the High Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, which Nova ekonomija had access to.
In her testimony, she denied responsibility for the railway project, which she transferred to Minister Vesić, his assistant Anita Dimoski and other officials.
Tanasković also described the meeting she had in September with President Vučić and Minister Vesić, which was also attended by directors of public companies under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure.
"At that meeting, the president raised the question of future projects that have yet to be done, who will lead them and who is responsible for them, so Minister Vesić confirmed that he and his ministry are the only ones responsible for the projects, because that is the only way they can be completed. The minister said the same thing to the President of the Republic while we were traveling by train from Novi Sad to Subotica - that everything related to projects can only be done by the Ministry headed by him," Tanasković stated before the prosecutor.
Ninić: Vesić will not be sacrificed
After learning from New Economy, lawyer Ivan Ninić also spoke out, who shared on the social network X (X) an official document of the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, in which the persons responsible for large projects that have been carried out in Serbia in recent years have been identified, for which he alleges that the name of Goran Vesić is not mentioned in any of them.
Ninić believes that Vesić will not be sacrificed.
"He cunningly and perfidiously transferred the responsibility and signature for 167 projects to his associates, who are failing," the lawyer wrote.
ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
1. Does anyone really believe that Goran Vesić can fall as a member of the cartel right now?
2. Does anyone doubt the political survival skills of that man?
3. He cunningly and perfidiously transferred the responsibility and signature for 167 PROJECTS to his associates, who are falling 👇 pic.twitter.com/yjJGpByCQa
- Ivan Ninic (@INinic) December 16, 2024
Ninic stated "that this is how Assistant Minister Anita Dimoski was sacrificed".
"This is how anyone from the environment of the ministers, who thinks they can be part of the cartel, have a position, a chauffeur, commissions, live like a lord, without being called to account and being 'sacrificed' in that advanced chain, will fall in this way." nutrition", said Ninic.
This is how the assistant Anita Domoski fell... this is how everyone from the environment of ministers, who thinks they can be part of a cartel, have a position, a chauffeur, commissions, live like a lord, and not be called to account, will fall like this... sacrificed" in that advanced food chain 👇 pic.twitter.com/BXmnnalJ8s
- Ivan Ninic (@INinic) December 16, 2024
From this document it can be seen that the persons responsible for the project of the Hungarian-Serbian railway, the section Belgrade center - Stara Pazova and the section Novi Sad - Subotica - State border, are the State Secretary in the Ministry Mihajlo Mišić as a mentor, then the then Acting Assistant Minister Anita Dimovski and State Secretary Emeše Lalić Urban.
In addition, Anita Dimovski and Mihajlo Mišić are listed as responsible persons for the Belgrade Metro, as well as the then state secretary, and now the new minister of this department, Aleksandra Damnjanović.
FULL RESPONSIBILITY + SIGNATURE ON EVERYTHING…. and then how is he not guilty, how was he released? Stupid Vesic? Well it won't be…. He was preparing for October 6th 👇 pic.twitter.com/hSb0o6H1C5
- Ivan Ninic (@INinic) December 16, 2024
Prosecution: 57 witnesses were questioned
In the meantime, Tanjug announced that the High Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad has so far questioned 57 witnesses as part of the investigation regarding the fall of the canopy at the Railway Station in Novi Sad on November 1, when 15 people died and two people were seriously injured. Among the witnesses, the legal representatives of the victims' families were also questioned.
Previously, on December 12, the prosecution announced that 34 witnesses, namely representatives of the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, representatives of "Infrastuktura železnice Srbije" a.d., as well as other persons who have knowledge of the process of designing and implementing the reconstruction project, had been questioned as part of the investigation. adaptation of the station building of the Railway Station in Novi Sad, as well as information about the previous maintenance of the station building.
In that announcement, the questioning of 16 more witnesses, as well as the legal heirs of the victims, was announced.
During the pre-investigation procedure, the public prosecutors of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad interviewed more than 100 people and analyzed the collected documentation in detail.
After the completion of the construction expertise, the files were delivered to the prosecutor's office on November 20, which ordered the Novi Sad Police Department to file a criminal complaint against thirteen suspects.
They were interrogated and the court ordered custody for 11 suspects, while it ordered house arrest for two people, and former Minister of Construction Goran Vesić's custody was terminated a few days later.
In the collapse of the canopy at the railway station in Novi Sad on November 1, 15 people died and two people were seriously injured.
Source: New economy / Danas
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