State prosecutor: Arrests "just beginning"

State Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac says the recent corruption cases arrests are "just the beginning" of the state strategy for combating high-level corruption. Dolovac told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti that collection of evidence in the Kolubara case, which is one of the major cases in the fight against corruption, was launched even before the public learned about it. State prosecutor: Arrests "just beginning" State Prosecutor for Organized Crime Miljko Radisavljeviccand his team were working round the clock with the police for over a year. More than 100 witnesses were interrogated and over a dozen thousands of pages of documentation were collected, based on which the suspects were arrested, Dolovac said. The investigation will determine the guilt of everyone involved in the fraud in the Kolubara mining complex. This crime includes an embezzlement of EUR 12 million, while another EUR 70 million were spent ignoring the envisaged plan, she added. Dolovac underscored that the modern laws, which Serbia adopted lately according to Europe's model, are offering great possibilities to the prosecutions to fight the most serious forms of crime more easily. According to her, the Seized Property Management Directorate assessed that the value of the temporary and permanently confiscated property exceeds EUR 300mn. Zagorka Dolovac (Beta, file)

State prosecutor: Arrests "just beginning"

State Prosecutor for Organized Crime Miljko Radisavljevicćand his team were working round the clock with the police for over a year. More than 100 witnesses were interrogated and over a dozen thousands of pages of documentation were collected, based on which the suspects were arrested, Dolovac said.

The investigation will determine the guilt of everyone involved in the fraud in the Kolubara mining complex. This crime includes an embezzlement of EUR 12 million, while another EUR 70 million were spent ignoring the envisaged plan, she added.

Dolovac underscored that the modern laws, which Serbia adopted lately according to Europe's model, are offering great possibilities to the prosecutions to fight the most serious forms of crime more easily.

According to her, the Seized Property Management Directorate assessed that the value of the temporary and permanently confiscated property exceeds EUR 300mn.