IM highlights importance of criminal “white book”

Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says that the “white book” for organized crime is the basis for the police’s work, not an arrest list.

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Interior Minister Ivica Dacic says that the “white book” for organized crime is the basis for the police’s work, not an arrest list. Dacic said that the completion of this document was not part of a new Operation Saber. IM highlights importance of criminal “white book” Police are expected to soon finishing drafting the new white book on organized crime groups in Serbia. According to that last edition published in 2002, there are over 100 active in the country. Dacic said that there were currently about 40 active crime groups in Serbia, which was why the white book could be dangerous if it fell into the hands of the mafia, because the criminals would then have an edge over the police. The minister said that this is why the book must remain secret, adding that it would help coordination between the police and the court system. “The main thing is that the book is not for the public, it is not to be made public. The Interior Ministry does not need it, we have all this in our own operative analysis. This is a coordinated state action for everyone to be familiar with what’s going on,” Dacic said. Lawyer Bozo Prelevic helped draft the first white book. He said that every serious country and police force needed such a document. Prelevic noted that there was no enough information on financial crime in the new book, as it could directly compromise the government. “Part of that financial crime is funded by political parties, they don’t want to say who finances them, there’s no state auditor, and an operative anti-organized crime body does not exist,” he said. He also said that the police would not be responsible for everything. “They are just one section of the front—there are also the security services, customs, a customs intelligence agency,” Prelevic explained. The first white book was created in 2002-2003. Most of the groups active then have since disappeared through internal conflicts—these include the most powerful, the Zemun Clan, which was smashed by Operation Saber conducted by the police after the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. Ivica Dacic (FoNet archive)

IM highlights importance of criminal “white book”

Police are expected to soon finishing drafting the new white book on organized crime groups in Serbia. According to that last edition published in 2002, there are over 100 active in the country.

Dačić said that there were currently about 40 active crime groups in Serbia, which was why the white book could be dangerous if it fell into the hands of the mafia, because the criminals would then have an edge over the police.

The minister said that this is why the book must remain secret, adding that it would help coordination between the police and the court system.

“The main thing is that the book is not for the public, it is not to be made public. The Interior Ministry does not need it, we have all this in our own operative analysis. This is a coordinated state action for everyone to be familiar with what’s going on,” Dačić said.

Lawyer Božo Prelević helped draft the first white book. He said that every serious country and police force needed such a document.

Prelević noted that there was no enough information on financial crime in the new book, as it could directly compromise the government.

“Part of that financial crime is funded by political parties, they don’t want to say who finances them, there’s no state auditor, and an operative anti-organized crime body does not exist,” he said.

He also said that the police would not be responsible for everything.

“They are just one section of the front—there are also the security services, customs, a customs intelligence agency,” Prelević explained.

The first white book was created in 2002-2003. Most of the groups active then have since disappeared through internal conflicts—these include the most powerful, the Zemun Clan, which was smashed by Operation Saber conducted by the police after the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić.

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