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
Subject related to school fees for the children of Finance Minister Sinisa Malog it is kept as "strictly confidential", according to the letter from the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade addressed to the People's Deputy of the Green-Left Front, Jelena Jerinić.
In a letter signed by the chief public prosecutor of the VJT in Belgrade Nenad Stefanovic it also says that since 2016 he is against it Small 16 criminal reports were submitted to this prosecutor's office. Four were rejected, in seven the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office assessed that there was no criminal offense, while the remaining five cases were forwarded to other prosecutor's offices.
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
— Jelena Jerinic (@JelenaJerinic) May 23, 2025
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 the information and explanations that the MP presented at the session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia on May 8, 2025, which reads:
"On the occasion of the letter of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption dated August 4, 2016, a case was formed in the Special Department for Suppression of Corruption of the VJT in Belgrade, who was the prosecuting prosecutor and that case, what actions were taken in connection with that case, if the investigation was suspended, submit the act by which this was done, how many criminal reports were filed against Sinisa Mali in the period from the beginning of 2016 to today and for which criminal offenses were reported and what was the outcome of the proceedings according to them in VJT?"
Chief Public Prosecutor Nenad Stefanović submitted the following notice:
"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.pov). 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, 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).
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