Prosecutor: Financial and criminal investigation

BELGRADE The Organized Crime Prosecution will launch a financial investigation together with criminal proceedings against Owner of Delta Holding Miroslav Miskovic. The same is true of other suspects arrested for dealings in privatized road maintenance companies, Prosecutor for Organized Crime Miljko Radisavljevic stated on Wednesday, and explained that the purpose will be to establish the origins of their property. Prosecutor: Financial and criminal investigation “Just like in other proceedings launched by the Prosecutor's Office, we will try to carry out a serious investigation in this case and establish primarily whether any of the suspects own property obtained by illegal means,” Radisavljevic told Tanjug. He noted that this is a very wide system and that the financial investigation would be complex and would probably take a lot of time. When asked whether the Prosecutor's Office would have the power to tackle the case since it deals with the arrest of the biggest tycoons in the country, Radisavljevic said that the power of the Prosecutor's Office in this and any other proceedings primarily depends on the arguments and force of the available evidence. He noted that the Crime Investigation Police department invested enormous efforts and collected a number of documents and materials within a short period of time which will be useful to the Prosecutor's Office in further proceedings. “We hope that we will be able to prove the main hypothesis that the dealings with road maintenance companies are a shield for the brutal extraction of money and capital, exhaustion of property from companies in the privatization process and similar matters,” Radisavljevic said. According to the information gathered so far, the funds invested in the road maintenance company PZP Nis allegedly comes from the sale of Delta Bank. “The police and the Prosecutor's Office are looking into the information and they will try to establish whether the money invested in PZP Nis and later in PZP Belgrade indeed come from Delta Bank or whether there are some other sources we cannot pinpoint now and say whether the money is ill-gotten or obtained through regular means,” the prosecutor said. Miroslav Miskovic, his son Marko Miskovic and owner of Nibens Group Milo Djuraskovic and seven more suspects in the dealings concerning the privatization of several road maintenance companies were detained by the police and placed in 48-hour detention. They were charged with abuse of office and extraction of funds from road maintenance companies by illegal dealings, whereby they illegally obtained around EUR 30 million. Miljko Radisavljevic (Beta, file) Tanjug

Prosecutor: Financial and criminal investigation

“Just like in other proceedings launched by the Prosecutor's Office, we will try to carry out a serious investigation in this case and establish primarily whether any of the suspects own property obtained by illegal means,” Radisavljević told Tanjug.

He noted that this is a very wide system and that the financial investigation would be complex and would probably take a lot of time.

When asked whether the Prosecutor's Office would have the power to tackle the case since it deals with the arrest of the biggest tycoons in the country, Radisavljević said that the power of the Prosecutor's Office in this and any other proceedings primarily depends on the arguments and force of the available evidence.

He noted that the Crime Investigation Police department invested enormous efforts and collected a number of documents and materials within a short period of time which will be useful to the Prosecutor's Office in further proceedings.

“We hope that we will be able to prove the main hypothesis that the dealings with road maintenance companies are a shield for the brutal extraction of money and capital, exhaustion of property from companies in the privatization process and similar matters,” Radisavljević said.

According to the information gathered so far, the funds invested in the road maintenance company PZP Nis allegedly comes from the sale of Delta Bank.

“The police and the Prosecutor's Office are looking into the information and they will try to establish whether the money invested in PZP Nis and later in PZP Belgrade indeed come from Delta Bank or whether there are some other sources we cannot pinpoint now and say whether the money is ill-gotten or obtained through regular means,” the prosecutor said.

Miroslav Mišković, his son Marko Mišković and owner of Nibens Group Milo Đurašković and seven more suspects in the dealings concerning the privatization of several road maintenance companies were detained by the police and placed in 48-hour detention.

They were charged with abuse of office and extraction of funds from road maintenance companies by illegal dealings, whereby they illegally obtained around EUR 30 million.