Marinika Tepić, vice president of the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP), announced that the main trial against Culture Minister Nikola Selaković in connection with the removal of cultural heritage status from the General Staff complex is scheduled for February 4.
Tepić criticized the pace of the process and called for a special anti-corruption prosecutor with their own prosecutorial police, saying that Selaković, Finance Minister Siniša Mali, former Construction Minister Goran Vesić, and their superiors would have been jailed long ago under such a system.
She noted that the SSP has been proposing a Law on a Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor since 2019, modeled after Romanian and EU Prosecutor Laura Codruța Kövesi, and pledged that it would be a priority for the new government.
The Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office filed an indictment in December against Selaković and three others, accusing them of using their positions to influence or falsify documents that led to the removal of cultural heritage protection from the General Staff building, a move that cleared the way for potential demolition.
