Serbia’s Chief Public Prosecutor, Zagorka Dolovac, stated during today’s session of the High Council of Prosecutors (VST) that she has received confirmation that certain prosecutors had a meeting at the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) ahead of the recently repeated VST elections, during which they were allegedly asked to vote for specific candidates.
Dolovac emphasized that she was not aware of the BIA meeting at the time it occurred, nor immediately before or after it. She only learned of the discussions two days ago from Milijana Dončić, the Chief Prosecutor of the Kragujevac Appellate Prosecutor’s Office.
“I didn’t receive notification about the meeting, which is the proper protocol—prosecutors are supposed to inform me if they attend any meetings at that institution,” Dolovac said.
Dolovac confirmed that the topic of discussion at BIA was precisely what prosecutor Miodrag Surla had mentioned earlier in the VST session: a request for prosecutors to vote for certain candidates, rather than any operational or routine BIA matters.
Surla had joined the session by phone to explain his objection to the VST elections. He described how prosecutors from the Kragujevac appellate office, including Dončić, had been asked at the BIA meeting to hold internal sessions to encourage voting for specific candidates.
“Some simply suggested it, others just reported – ‘we were at BIA, and this was requested; you can vote as you wish,’” Surla explained.
Meanwhile, Justice Minister Nenad Vujić, also a VST member, described the information as indirect and largely speculative, noting that no one who publicly spoke on the matter had attended the meeting.
This follows reports from Nova.rs prior to the VST elections that prosecutors, particularly those in the Kragujevac appellate jurisdiction, faced pressure to vote for regime-aligned candidates, including alleged contact and pressure from BIA officials.
