{"id":165702,"date":"2025-02-19T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=165702"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:52:13","slug":"anti-corruption-crackdown-intensifies-police-raid-over-50-companies-more-raids-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/anti-corruption-crackdown-intensifies-police-raid-over-50-companies-more-raids-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"ANTI-CORRUPTION CRACKDOWN INTENSIFIES: Police raid over 50 companies, more raids announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of a large-scale operation aimed at uncovering and prosecuting corruption-related crimes, officers from the Tax Police and the Criminal Police Directorate (UKP), acting on orders from the Special Department for Combating Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Belgrade, raided more than 50 companies across various cities in Serbia this morning, <strong>Blic<\/strong> has learned unofficially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the companies under investigation are, according to sources, <strong>Ton\u010dev Group<\/strong> from Ni\u0161, <strong>Fristajler<\/strong> from Belgrade, <strong>\u0160krbi\u0107 Winery<\/strong>, <strong>Grass Garden<\/strong>, <strong>Sava Nova Plus Restaurant<\/strong>, <strong>Putevi U\u017eice<\/strong>, <strong>IT Globe<\/strong>, <strong>NBI.N.A.T. doo Kragujevac<\/strong>, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, more than 50 companies are under scrutiny, with even more firms across Serbia expected to undergo inspections in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UKP RAID ON THE NURSES\u2019 CHAMBER<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The head of the Clinic for Emergency and Clinical Toxicology at the Military Medical Academy, <strong>Prof. Dr. Jasmina Jovi\u0107 Sto\u0161i\u0107<\/strong>, was arrested yesterday at the institution on suspicion of abusing her official position for personal and third-party financial gain exceeding three million dinars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, officers from the Criminal Police Directorate raided the <strong>Chamber of Nurses and Medical Technicians<\/strong>, arresting <strong>former director Radmila Ugrica<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a search of <strong>Radmila Ugrica\u2019s<\/strong> residence, authorities found a contract for the purchase of an apartment in Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to Ugrica\u2019s arrest, the Criminal Police Directorate had also detained her associate. More details on that case can be found in a separate report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FIND OUT MORE IN ENGLISH:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fserbiantimes%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02D7Wv4PnFd1m6KD7xehq7kbGWdev7aGSMmgiwyZe7a59FeLCYXEJUUacLK743bJ1ul&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"674\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A SERIES OF ARRESTS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In a major police operation on <strong>Saturday<\/strong>, authorities arrested <strong>Du\u0161an Rafailovi\u0107<\/strong>, chairman of the Board for Standardization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly afterward, another corruption-related arrest took place, leading to the detainment of <strong>15 individuals<\/strong>, including <strong>Dragan Tiki\u0107<\/strong>, a so-called \u201clocal sheriff\u201d from Vojvodina, who is suspected of tax fraud that caused significant damage to the state budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a reminder, as part of this large-scale anti-corruption operation, authorities also recently arrested <strong>Milorad Gr\u010di\u0107<\/strong>, <strong>mayor of Obrenovac<\/strong> and former acting director of EPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, <strong>controversial businessman Aleksandar Papi\u0107<\/strong> was also taken into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigations into all these cases are ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/chicago-serbs-show-big-hearts-fundraiser-for-the-first-serbian-orthodox-church-in-the-caribbean-a-big-success-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">CHICAGO SERBS SHOW BIG HEARTS: Fundraiser for the first Serbian Orthodox church in the Caribbean a big success! 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(VIDEO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/we-will-not-leave-until-the-demands-are-met-farmers-occupy-the-raca-municipality-building-demanding-the-resignation-of-the-entire-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">\u201cWE WILL NOT LEAVE UNTIL THE DEMANDS ARE MET\u201d: Farmers occupy the Ra\u010da Municipality building, demanding the resignation of the entire leadership!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/nemanja-was-robbed-in-the-world-cup-final-serbian-mma-fighter-lost-gold-due-to-an-incomprehensible-referee-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">NEMANJA WAS ROBBED IN THE WORLD CUP FINAL: Serbian MMA fighter lost gold due to an incomprehensible referee decision!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Nova.rs, <strong>Foto<\/strong>: Nova.rs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a large-scale operation aimed at uncovering and prosecuting corruption-related crimes, officers from the Tax Police and the Criminal Police Directorate (UKP), acting on orders from the Special Department for Combating Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Belgrade, raided more than 50 companies across various cities in Serbia this morning, Blic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":165703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5075,1617,1519,2340,4248,4850,478,113,5114],"class_list":["post-165702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serbia","tag-hapsenja-2","tag-hapsenje","tag-istraga","tag-korupcija","tag-kriminal","tag-organizovani-kriminal","tag-policija","tag-srbija","tag-zloupotreba","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165747,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165702\/revisions\/165747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}