Criminal charges over election scandal

Interior Minister Ivica Dacic has announced that criminal charges would be brought against the local head of the Serbian postal service PTT in the town of Bor. According to him, two more persons in this eastern town, where local elections were held recently, will also be charged this Friday. Criminal charges over election scandal They are suspected of abusing their official position ahead of the local ballot. “Police gathered all necessary explanations in cooperation with public enterprise PTT Srbija and the prosecutor has qualified the act as abuse of office,“ the minister said. “The deal with the prosecution is to file criminal charges against PTT director and two accomplices during the day,“ he added. Director of the PTT Srbija Zoran Ciric has stated that the public company was cooperating with police in this case. He said he did not feel responsible, and would not make any further comment. The scandal surfaced when opposition SNS filed its own criminal complaint against Ivica Dacic, and the PTT Srbija director. The party said that the post office in Bor had been sending forged payment slips with SNS logos, false account numbers complete with forged signatures of the party’s leader Tomislav Nikolic to the citizens, ahead of the local elections. The minister and the postal service director failed to investigate the case, said SNS, and therefore decided to sue them. The fake, PTT-dispatched letters asked citizens to donate RSD 1,800 to the opposition party, "since it incurred great expenses during the election campaign". The investigation into the case started three days ago. SNS Deputy President Aleksandar Vucic told a press conference in Belgrade that charges were brought against the interior minister and the PTT director for abuse of office in concurrence with fraud and aiding in giving and receiving bribes regarding in the voting process. “SNS won’t be satisfied and it will never accept the regime’s cover-up of the truth about what happened in Bor,” Vucic pointed out, and added that he had "certain information about who could be the person who had given the orders" to send the letter, but that it was the state authorities' job to investigate. The SNS deputy president stressed that his party was interested in who gave the orders, and that they would be taking “different steps” if the state failed to react by June 29. “We won’t be satisfied with the filing of criminal charges against those who were forced to commit the fraud,” Vucic concluded.

Criminal charges over election scandal

They are suspected of abusing their official position ahead of the local ballot.

“Police gathered all necessary explanations in cooperation with public enterprise PTT Srbija and the prosecutor has qualified the act as abuse of office,“ the minister said.

“The deal with the prosecution is to file criminal charges against PTT director and two accomplices during the day,“ he added.

Director of the PTT Srbija Zoran Ćirić has stated that the public company was cooperating with police in this case. He said he did not feel responsible, and would not make any further comment.

The scandal surfaced when opposition SNS filed its own criminal complaint against Ivica Dačić, and the PTT Srbija director.

The party said that the post office in Bor had been sending forged payment slips with SNS logos, false account numbers complete with forged signatures of the party’s leader Tomislav Nikolić to the citizens, ahead of the local elections.

The minister and the postal service director failed to investigate the case, said SNS, and therefore decided to sue them.

The fake, PTT-dispatched letters asked citizens to donate RSD 1,800 to the opposition party, "since it incurred great expenses during the election campaign".

The investigation into the case started three days ago.

SNS Deputy President Aleksandar Vučić told a press conference in Belgrade that charges were brought against the interior minister and the PTT director for abuse of office in concurrence with fraud and aiding in giving and receiving bribes regarding in the voting process.

“SNS won’t be satisfied and it will never accept the regime’s cover-up of the truth about what happened in Bor,” Vučić pointed out, and added that he had "certain information about who could be the person who had given the orders" to send the letter, but that it was the state authorities' job to investigate.

The SNS deputy president stressed that his party was interested in who gave the orders, and that they would be taking “different steps” if the state failed to react by June 29.

“We won’t be satisfied with the filing of criminal charges against those who were forced to commit the fraud,” Vučić concluded.