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The Office of the Prosecutor for Organized Crime has expanded the investigation of the case against Deputy Minister of Agriculture Daria Janjic Nisavic and Cedomir Draskovic for accepting or giving bribes in connection with public procurement to another suspect.
The expanded investigation now includes Helga Stojanović, who was the head of the Public Procurement Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office told Tanjug.
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 pre-trial 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 due to the danger of influencing 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, seriously violated the rules of conduct and the constitutionally guaranteed right to defend suspects. .
He announced that for this reason he would request the separation of the record of the interrogation, now the suspect Stojanović, and would take all the steps prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code.
Janjic Nisavic and Draskovic defended themselves by keeping silent during the investigation, while Stojanovic presented his defense.
As announced by the prosecution after his arrest, Janjić Nišavić is suspected of being one of the suspects D. Č. He received a monthly fee, the benefits promised in advance to assist in obtaining a contract in the public procurement procedure of the Ministry of Agriculture in the field of services, which is supported by a foreign fund for financing agriculture.
– The suspect was promised the payment of benefits for an amount of about 1,000 euros per month, for the next two years, while the public procurement contract lasts – the prosecution said.
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