Report: Lawmakers targeted in investigation

BELGRADE As part of the current campaign against corruption, authorities will investigate adoption of laws over the recent years that served the interest of tycoons. This is according to Belgrade-based daily Danas, which also writes that a criminal investigations police working group will also focus on deputies to the Serbian parliament without whose votes none of the laws that created the conditions for "certain tycoons" to amass enormous wealth in a short time could have been adopted. Report: Lawmakers targeted in investigation Those included the arrested Delta Holding owner Miroslav Miskovic, according to the newspaper. In this sense, the investigating authorities will be particularly interested in the possibility of corruption having taken place in the adoption of amendments to the privatization law in 2005 and of the planning and construction law in 2010, Danas said, citing unnamed sources. According to the newspaper, it is difficult to find a law passed in Serbia over the last two decades without also finding that it had had procedures and mechanisms introduced that favor the “big business.” "Given the legal circumstances, in earlier attempts to force scandals such as the privatization of the Port of Belgrade, C market (retail chain), Jugoremedija (pharmaceutical firm) or Sartid (steelworks) out in the open, we would end up in an absurd situation where, in the opinion of the then (investigation) teams, everything had been done in line with the law. It remains an open question who created the laws and which deputy groups were adopting them, but also how many norms would have failed before the Constitutional Court had the institution been working the way it should have all the time," writes Danas. Danas Tanjug

Report: Lawmakers targeted in investigation

Those included the arrested Delta Holding owner Miroslav Miškovic, according to the newspaper.

In this sense, the investigating authorities will be particularly interested in the possibility of corruption having taken place in the adoption of amendments to the privatization law in 2005 and of the planning and construction law in 2010, Danas said, citing unnamed sources.

According to the newspaper, it is difficult to find a law passed in Serbia over the last two decades without also finding that it had had procedures and mechanisms introduced that favor the “big business.”

"Given the legal circumstances, in earlier attempts to force scandals such as the privatization of the Port of Belgrade, C market (retail chain), Jugoremedija (pharmaceutical firm) or Sartid (steelworks) out in the open, we would end up in an absurd situation where, in the opinion of the then (investigation) teams, everything had been done in line with the law. It remains an open question who created the laws and which deputy groups were adopting them, but also how many norms would have failed before the Constitutional Court had the institution been working the way it should have all the time," writes Danas.