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After several years of legal proceedings, the Supreme Court of Cassation in Belgrade rendered a final verdict in favor of the complainant of the Nis ambulance, Dragan Stamenković. The court found that the ambulance violated the Whistleblower Protection Act by posting the identity of the whistleblower on four bulletin boards, leading to harassment from colleagues.
Photo: D. MajstorovićOn behalf of the costs and damages, the Emergency Department should pay Stamenković almost 420,000 dinars. Stamenković’s case was withdrawn from the High Court to the Niš Court of Appeal and vice versa, eventually reaching the Belgrade Court of Cassation, which ruled in his favor, they write. Southern news.
It is established that the defendant Institute for Emergency Medical Aid in Nis took a harmful action in relation to the prosecutor Dragan Stamenković of Niš by posting the report of the complainant-prosecutor on the four notice boards of the defendant’s premises, for which he was subjected of harassment. derogatory threats and nicknames, says the verdict.
Stamenković, who works as a driver in the Emergency Department, alerted the competent inspectorates and the public about the changes in the regulations of the Institute where he works, which refer to the qualifications that drivers must meet.
His anonymous letter, signed by director Slavoljub Zivadinovic, was posted on the institution’s notice boards, revealing the identity of the complainant.
“I was bullied and humiliated. People are starting to avoid me a little bit. Everybody knows it, but now they are just sending me words of praise. They say ‘bravo, majstore’ and ‘To, care,'” says Stamenković.
He also believes that the case ended with a final verdict with no right to appeal just because it ended in Belgrade, and it did not stay in the Nis courts.
“I was not respected in the Nis prosecutor’s office and in the judiciary, Belgrade proved it. There are indications that everything is hampered by the wife of the director Zivadinovic because he is the president of the High Court of Nis. That makes me doubt that all my processes are hampered there, not only mine but all those in the ER, ”says Stamenković.
Officially, the total costs in the verdict are around 420,000 dinars, but Stamenković says the ambulance should pay him more than half a million dinars, and those are budget funds.
“It is the citizens’ money, sadly. And I am very sorry that this is happening and that all this nonsense of emergency management is being paid for by the citizens,” Stamenković said.
He also remembers that there are three more advanced trials against the Ambulance, and he is especially grateful to Pištaljka’s lawyers, for whom he says they helped him a lot in his fight.
Stamenković has been a driver in the emergency room for nearly 40 years, becoming a whistleblower a few years ago when he first pointed out changes to the regulation on hiring drivers.
He informed the public about the defective vehicles, about the rental of the space of this medical institution to a cafe, about the sale of masks to employees and the lack of equipment at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
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