{"id":194111,"date":"2025-11-30T13:22:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=194111"},"modified":"2025-11-30T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:24:21","slug":"selakovic-officially-suspected-the-prosecutors-office-can-order-the-minister-to-be-brought-in-due-to-his-absence-from-the-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/selakovic-officially-suspected-the-prosecutors-office-can-order-the-minister-to-be-brought-in-due-to-his-absence-from-the-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"SELAKOVI\u0106 OFFICIALLY SUSPECTED: The Prosecutor\u2019s Office can order the minister to be brought in due to his absence from the hearing!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Prosecutor\u2019s Office for Organized Crime (TOK) confirmed for N1 that Minister of Culture Nikola Selakovi\u0107 failed to appear on Friday at the scheduled hearing, without providing any justification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was supposed to be questioned as a suspect within the investigation that TOK is conducting in the \u201cGeneral Staff\u201d case, due to which the Prosecutor\u2019s Office has for weeks been exposed to unprecedented pressure and targeting by the highest state officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Selakovi\u0107 did not justify his absence, which means that his defense attorney, whose presence is mandatory when a suspect is being questioned, also did not come to the Prosecutor\u2019s Office to explain the reasons for the absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, the former Minister of Justice did not even send a letter to the Prosecutor\u2019s Office for Organized Crime to explain why he could not appear, although media reports yesterday stated that he had been visiting municipalities in southern Serbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-serbiantimes-info wp-block-embed-serbiantimes-info\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Yj7RcRMyCl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/godisnjica-postavljanja-zahteva-studenti-pozvalig-gradjane-na-protest-ispred-rektorata-bice-odrzan-i-plenum\/\">GODI\u0160NJICA POSTAVLJANJA ZAHTEVA: Studenti pozvalig gra\u0111ane na protest ispred rektorata, bi\u0107e odr\u017ean i plenum!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#132;GODI\u0160NJICA POSTAVLJANJA ZAHTEVA: Studenti pozvalig gra\u0111ane na protest ispred rektorata, bi\u0107e odr\u017ean i plenum!&#147; &#8212; Serbiantimes.info\" src=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/godisnjica-postavljanja-zahteva-studenti-pozvalig-gradjane-na-protest-ispred-rektorata-bice-odrzan-i-plenum\/embed\/#?secret=EcNdxwfZLN#?secret=Yj7RcRMyCl\" data-secret=\"Yj7RcRMyCl\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This has created the legal grounds for the prosecutor to order that Minister Selakovi\u0107 be brought in for questioning, meaning that the police may go to retrieve him in order to secure his presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If, for example, police do not locate the suspect before the hearing, in that case the prosecutor may order his arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To recall, in the \u201cGeneral Staff\u201d case the Prosecutor\u2019s Office suspects the Director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Goran Vasi\u0107, the acting Director of the City Institute Aleksandar Ivanovi\u0107, and the Secretary in the Ministry of Culture Slavica Jela\u010da, of committing the extended criminal offense of abuse of official position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May 2025, before the prosecutor, Goran Vasi\u0107 admitted to falsifying documentation on the basis of which the Government of Serbia adopted the Decision on the Termination of Cultural Property Status for the General Staff buildings and removed them from the register of cultural assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRN recently reported that Aleksandar Ivanovi\u0107, in his statement before the prosecutor, described how Minister of Culture Nikola Selakovi\u0107 repeatedly demanded that he submit a \u201cproposal\u201d for removing the protected status from the General Staff, even though he had no authority to issue such a document, while the Ministry of Culture also requested that he personally write the explanation, because the Director of the Republic Institute \u201cwas not capable\u201d of doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, the very investigation in the \u201cGeneral Staff\u201d case is one of the reasons why this Prosecutor\u2019s Office has been intensely discredited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to this investigation, President Vu\u010di\u0107 stated that certain prosecutors for organized crime deal with \u201cfabricated cases\u201d and addressed them insultingly as a \u201ccriminal gang,\u201d \u201cthe worst criminals,\u201d \u201cthe mafia,\u201d prompting the TOK Collegium to issue two strongly worded public reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/interview-sergej-trifunovic-both-washington-and-brussels-fear-the-student-list-the-embrace-of-the-sajkaca-and-the-hijab-is-an-epic-moment-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">INTERVIEW, SERGEJ TRIFUNOVI\u0106: Both Washington and Brussels fear the student list! 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