Marinika Tepić, Vice President of the Party of Freedom and Justice and member of parliament, told Danas that according to documents in her possession, not only Culture Minister Nikola Selaković but at least six other Serbian ministers were involved in the unlawful removal of protected cultural status from the Generalštab building.
According to Tepić, Selaković is merely one executor in a much larger operation:
“Let’s see if Selaković will dare to reveal who ordered him to do this, and for whom he and at least six other ministers and government officials carried out this criminal act involving the Generalštab. The full investment contract for the so-called ‘Trump Towers,’ which I possess, makes it clear he is just one link in a criminal chain serving the Vučić brothers and Siniša Mali.”
She added that Selaković’s aggressive behavior is a sign of fear:
“His primitive rage comes from knowing that this investigation will inevitably lead to those who issued the orders. The unconstitutional lex specialis for the General Staff was created precisely to protect him, Mali, Goran Vesić, Miloš Vučević, Aleksandra Sofronijević, Maja Gojković — and of course, Aleksandar Vučić himself. This entire structure exists to shield those who executed Vučić’s unlawful plan and to shift responsibility onto the National Assembly.”
Tepić emphasized that the scandal surrounding the Generalštab is not an isolated legal manipulation, but rather a pattern:
“This is how Vučić’s system operates — through pressure, political intimidation, misuse of institutions, and the systematic destruction of cultural and state heritage for private deals.”
Earlier today, Minister Selaković appeared at the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, where he was handed a summons for questioning scheduled for tomorrow at 17:00. He had already shown up at the same office earlier without a scheduled hearing, in what Tepić described as a “mafia-style performance” aimed at intimidating prosecutors.
