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The expanded investigation also includes Helga Stojanović, who was head of the Public Procurement Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office said.
She is accused of committing the crime of abuse of official position in public procurement, added the Prosecutor’s Office.
Stojanovic was scheduled to be a witness in this investigation, but his status soon changed to suspect. He was not in preventive detention, unlike Janjic Nisavic and Draskovic, who were arrested on October 9 and are in custody, which was ordered by the court two days later because of the danger that they would influence the witnesses in the investigation.
Regarding the extension of the investigation to Stojanović, the defense believes that the first order did not intentionally cover the investigation. The lawyer Ivan Gvozdenac, who defends the suspect Draskovic, believes that in this way the deputy prosecutor used the legal ambiguities and did not invite the defense lawyers of the other defendants to the hearing, which, he claims, flagrantly violated the rules of conduct and .
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