Predrag Vuletić, provincial secretary for social policy, demography and gender equality, was arrested on suspicion of abusing his official position when awarding grants to families to solve the housing issue. D. M, the president of the commission of the Provincial Secretariat that decided on the allocation of those funds, was also arrested, the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad.
As stated in the announcement, it is suspected that Vuletić and DM abused their official position and powers in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 in order to obtain illegal property benefits of a total of 130,9 million dinars from other natural persons.
The money was awarded as part of a competition for grants to families in which the third or fourth child is born, intended for solving the housing issue or improving living conditions in the territory of the Autonomous Province Vojvodina.
According to the prosecutor's office, the persons to whom the funds were allocated did not even fulfill the basic condition of the competition - to have a third or fourth child. In this way, as is suspected, damage of 130,9 million dinars was caused to the budget of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.
The Prosecutor's Office announced that, with the approval of the Special Department for Combating Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, the suspects were detained for up to 48 hours. Within that period, they should be detained and interrogated in the Special Department for Suppression of Corruption.
Predrag Vuletić is a member of the Presidency of the Socialist Movement, the party headed by Aleksandar Vulin, and is considered one of his closest collaborators.
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