At the order of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior’s Service for the Fight against Organized Crime (MUP SBPOK), 18 people were deprived of liberty today on the territory of Serbia.
From December 2024 until today, this organized criminal group has falsified and produced more than 300 different documents – testimonials, diplomas from various secondary, higher, and high educational institutions, certificates of passed exams, certificates of completed professional practice, certificates of passed state exams, both in Serbian and foreign languages which were certified with apostilles, by which this organized criminal group acquired illegal financial gain, in a so far determined amount of more than approximately 132,000.00 euros.
The arrested are S. S. (65), G. B. (54), M. D. (54), B. G. (62), Ž. R. (59), Ž. M. (30), T. L. (50), S. B. (50), O. Lj. (45), V. B. (64), L. Z. (43), V. D. (40), P. D. (77), J. S. (53), M. M. (38), S. S. (52), D. D. (59) and K. B. (38).
There are grounds for suspicion that this organized criminal group committed the criminal offenses of association for the purpose of committing criminal acts, the criminal offense of document forgery in extended duration, and the criminal offense of abuse of official position in extended duration during the mentioned time period.
This 18-member organized criminal group will be brought to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, after which they will be questioned.
The MUP also issued a statement saying that the police have so far, during searches of apartments used by the suspects in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Pančevo, Kovin, and Sombor, found several dozen forged documents, diplomas, certificates, phones, USB sticks, laptops, memory card holders, blank checks of foreign banks, as well as more than 150,000 euros.
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Source: Euronews; Photo: rina