{"id":209064,"date":"2026-05-04T16:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=209064"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:15:02","slug":"pali-zbog-14-tendera-i-2-5-miliona-evra-cetvoro-uhapsenih-u-novom-sadu-medju-njima-i-stric-nikole-jokica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/pali-zbog-14-tendera-i-2-5-miliona-evra-cetvoro-uhapsenih-u-novom-sadu-medju-njima-i-stric-nikole-jokica\/","title":{"rendered":"FELL BECAUSE OF 14 TENDERS AND 2.5 MILLION EUROS: Four arrested in Novi Sad, among them the uncle of Nikola Joki\u0107!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The police announced today that four people were arrested in Novi Sad on suspicion of committing multiple malversations involving tax and money laundering, and among those detained was the former director of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Novi Sad, Sini\u0161a Joki\u0107, the uncle of celebrated basketball player Nikola Joki\u0107.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced today that due to the existence of grounds for suspicion of committing criminal acts of abuse of official position in aiding, money laundering, abuse in connection with public procurement, tax evasion, tax fraud in connection with value-added tax, and falsification of an official document, the police arrested the responsible person of the company “Prima Idea doo,” I. P. (45), while S. J. (57), the former responsible person of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Novi Sad, is charged with the prolonged criminal act of abuse of official position and trading in influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This refers to Sini\u0161a Joki\u0107, the uncle of basketball player Nikola Joki\u0107, who is already known to the public, writes Razglas News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joki\u0107 was previously on the list of persons for arrest as part of the investigation into the fall of the canopy at the Railway Station in Novi Sad in August 2025. The Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime then ordered the police to detain several people in the investigation of the canopy collapse in Novi Sad, including Joki\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prominent official of the SNS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Joki\u0107 is an historian by profession and a well-known name to the Novi Sad public. He is a prominent official of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and the former director of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of Novi Sad, the portal Nova.rs published. He resigned from that position on October 27, 2024, four days before the fall of the canopy at the Novi Sad Railway Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joki\u0107 served as the director of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of Novi Sad since 2016, as well as during the time of the reconstruction of the entire Novi Sad \u2013 Subotica railway line. He submitted his resignation on October 27 last year, and Dalibor Ro\u017ei\u0107 was appointed as acting director in his place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sini\u0161a Joki\u0107 is now in the position of curator of the Museum of the City of Novi Sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joki\u0107’s “re-election was preceded by the announcement of the reconstruction of dozens of facades of some of the oldest and most beautiful buildings in Novi Sad, a project for whose realization Joki\u0107 himself is one of the most deserving,” the portal NSu\u017eivo wrote in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media wrote about Sini\u0161a Joki\u0107 back in November 2022, where, as the director of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of Novi Sad, he refused to answer questions about the damage to the Ban’s Palace building during the construction work on an underground garage, as well as what the institution had done to protect the buildings within the Banovina complex, Nova Ekonomija previously wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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