The Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime in Serbia announced today that after six people were arrested, including Tomislav Momirović, who was the Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure in the Government of Serbia at the time of the start of the reconstruction of the Novi Sad Railway Station, five more people, or a total of 11, were arrested.
Among the five arrested were the owner of the company "Deko Team" from Beška, Nenad Ignjatović, the investment manager of "Infrastruktura Železnice Srbije" and the manager of the Project for the Modernization and Reconstruction of the Hungarian-Serbian Railway Connection Belgrade - Budapest, Slobodanka Katanić.
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The director and responsible person of the Youth Cooperative "Manager" Aleksandar Cvjetković was also arrested, as were responsible persons in several business entities, Dragan Popović and Zoran Mijajlović, according to the prosecution.
"The task force will continue the work it has begun in the coming period on investigating financial flows related to other aspects of the project 'Modernization and reconstruction of the Hungarian-Serbian railway on the route Novi Sad - Subotica - state border (Kelebija)'," the statement said.
The Prosecutor's Office announced earlier today that six people have been arrested as part of an investigation into financial flows related to the modernization and reconstruction of the Novi Sad - Subotica - state border (Kelebija) railway, and that searches and detentions of five more people are underway, and several more people are included in the proceedings on suspicion of having damaged the state budget by more than 115 million dollars.
The prosecution alleges that by concluding annexes to commercial contracts and agreements, suspects Tomislav Momirović, Goran Vesić, Anita Dimoski, Nebojša Šurlan and Slobodanka Katanić enabled the contractor "CRIC - CCCC" to invoice the financier and investor for the total value of the work performed on the project in the amount of 1,21 billion dollars.
The suspects, according to the prosecution, also enabled the contractor to perform additional work for which the obligation of subsequent payment upon invoicing was assumed in the amount of 64 million dollars, thereby obtaining material benefit for the contractor, in the value of at least 18 million dollars determined so far, and causing damage to the Serbian budget in the amount of 115.558.520,43 US dollars, which represents the difference between the assumed financial obligations for the Serbian budget and the contractual price from the Commercial Agreement.
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