Mladen Nenadić, chief prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime (TOK), spoke at a panel at the Faculty of Law about how representatives of the executive branch demanded that a specific prosecutor be transferred from the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office to TOK, attorney Ivan Ninić said on N1’s New Day. He pointed out that state authorities do not cooperate with TOK, and that this is not due to Mrdić’s laws but rather to the placement of loyalists within the police.
“Prosecutor Nenadić stated at the panel at the Faculty of Law that two representatives of the executive branch gave him a recommendation and exerted pressure for one prosecutor from the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office to be transferred to TOK; that he informed the prosecutor’s collegium about this and that the prosecutors did not agree, because that prosecutor and her husband had been the subject of processing in a case handled by TOK,” Ninić told N1.
He stressed that he regrets that Prosecutor Nenadić did not say who those representatives of the authorities were who have an interest in specific names from the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office ending up in TOK.
“That is impermissible influence. It represents behind-the-scenes actions that once again confirm how loyal personnel are selected in all prosecutor’s offices and the ambition to take over TOK,” Ninić said.
Ninić recalls that TOK employs nine permanently appointed prosecutors, while 11 have been seconded from higher prosecutor’s offices, and that under Mrdić’s laws they cannot remain, but can be seconded again for a period not exceeding three years.
He adds that Justice Minister Nenad Vujić, whom he says has received reprimands from the European Union, is now trying to “smooth things over” by submitting an initiative to resolve the issue within the next two weeks.
“I can’t read between the lines what will happen. Whether it will be the same 11 prosecutors, or whether they will reshuffle the cards and insert some loyalists among them, thereby ‘drilling holes’ in TOK and undermining the work of Mladen Nenadić himself. The comments of Branko Stamenković, president of the High Prosecutorial Council (VST), are contradictory; he believes this is also a kind of pressure from the justice minister and emphasized that the VST knows its jurisdiction and where the initiative for such a proposal originates,” Ninić said.
A new setup
He adds that for now it is not known whether the same prosecutors will remain in TOK or whether the authorities are preparing a “new setup.”
“The intention was to send them back to their home prosecutor’s offices and behead TOK. Internal pressures either have borne fruit or will do so in combination with external pressures, because the EU will not remain silent,” the New Day guest assessed.
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