Former prosecutor formally indicted

The Smederevo public prosecution Tuesday formally indicted Rade Terzic. Terzic is a former Belgrade district prosecutor, arrested in July last year. Former prosecutor formally indicted He now faces criminal charges of abuse of office. The details of the indictment have not been revealed. When he was arrested, the former prosecutor was also suspected of membership in a criminal enterprise. Terzic was detained on suspicion of having abused the authority of his office to become a member of the Zemun Clan criminal group, tasked with influencing the duration of prison terms of some of the gang’s members. Police also said Terzic was suspected of “orally and in writing ordering Belgrade’s 4th Municipal Court Prosecutor Biljana Radovanovic and her deputies Dusan Simic and Mioljub Vitorovic to suggest that the gang’s leaders, Dusan Spasojevic and Mile Lukovic, be released from prison in 2001.” According to the same sources, Terzic also allegedly demanded that the 2002 charges against Milorad Ulemek. a.k.a. Legija, former Special Operations Unit (JSO) commander, be dropped. Ulemek was at the time detained and charged after an incident in a Belgrade night club. Terzic was previously linked in the media with the affair dating back to 2001, when members of the criminal Zemun Clan, who later conspired to assassinate Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, were released from prison allegedly with no legal basis to the decision. Spasojevic and other Zemun Clan members were at the time jailed for a number of crimes including the 2001 kidnapping of the Delta Holding owner, Miroslav Miskovic. Spasojevic and Lukovic were killed in a showdown with police shortly after the March 12, 2003, Djindjic assassination. Ulemek was in May sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in the murder. MUP's UKP officers arrest Terzic last July (Photo courtesy of MUP)

Former prosecutor formally indicted

He now faces criminal charges of abuse of office. The details of the indictment have not been revealed.

When he was arrested, the former prosecutor was also suspected of membership in a criminal enterprise.

Terzić was detained on suspicion of having abused the authority of his office to become a member of the Zemun Clan criminal group, tasked with influencing the duration of prison terms of some of the gang’s members.

Police also said Terzić was suspected of “orally and in writing ordering Belgrade’s 4th Municipal Court Prosecutor Biljana Radovanović and her deputies Dušan Simić and Mioljub Vitorović to suggest that the gang’s leaders, Dušan Spasojević and Mile Luković, be released from prison in 2001.”

According to the same sources, Terzić also allegedly demanded that the 2002 charges against Milorad Ulemek. a.k.a. Legija, former Special Operations Unit (JSO) commander, be dropped.

Ulemek was at the time detained and charged after an incident in a Belgrade night club.

Terzić was previously linked in the media with the affair dating back to 2001, when members of the criminal Zemun Clan, who later conspired to assassinate Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, were released from prison allegedly with no legal basis to the decision.

Spasojević and other Zemun Clan members were at the time jailed for a number of crimes including the 2001 kidnapping of the Delta Holding owner, Miroslav Mišković.

Spasojević and Luković were killed in a showdown with police shortly after the March 12, 2003, Đinđić assassination. Ulemek was in May sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in the murder.