I want to point to new political pressure on Prosecution in the case of ATP Vojvodina or, to be more precise, on me and on former Steering Board President of ATP Vojvodina, Svetlana Miljušević, within the investigation before the Special Prosecution.

The pressure has been intensified from the hearing for personal damage held on 8 May, 2015, in the case P 249/2011 before the Higher Court in Novi Sad.
From that day there has been being constant pressure up to the limit of intimidation directed to my family and co-workers I used to work with. We have been exposed to perfidious torture starting from night calls up to sending the police to deliver absurd invitations which have not even been tried to be delivered by regular mail.

The following factors have been fighting against me since 2006: the City of Novi Sad, Credit Agricole Bank in Serbia (the clerks from Serbia who have been involved from the very beginning in taking away my own funds and this has been confirmed through avoiding to execute the final court decision, through giving up the damage compensation claim; in this way they have reduced the bankruptcy estate and they have still been doing that), corrupted police from Novi Sad (Bogdan Pušić, Aleksandar Petković, Neško Nešković and others), and the one to be especially mentioned here - the Prosecutor Djordje Ostojić.

All their activities are done with the same aim – to take away the funds which I was earning in Serbia during 35 years long period as a respected businessman and to cede the funds to the one to whom it was promised even in 2006.

In spite of the fact that the Prosecution as an institution which prosecutes offenders is well familiar with the case ATP Vojvodina, in spite of the case actuality, in spite of the fact that the public is interested in the case as well as the Anti-corruption Council and European Commission, the Prosecution did not act in the way prescribed by the Constitution and the Public Prosecution Law, but the Prosecution kept the criminal charges in the drawer and dismissed some of them after 2 or 3 years.

I have filed about 20 criminal charges (www.ilijadevic.com) and the courts have not been dealing with them for many years. However, two very precise and defined charges were dismissed:

18 August, 2014, even after the European Commission report on opening the Chapters 23 and 24, the corrupted Prosecution in Serbia continues to work in the same way

10 February, 2015, although the state of Serbia announces opening of the Chapters 23 and 24, the Prosecution in Serbia is „open wound of Serbian society“ and it still acts under pressure of tycoons, powerful people, criminal groups and all that in order to be liked by the politicians

The criminal charges were filed against the responsible persons from the Privatization Agency; in spite of my lawyers and Anti-corruption Agency’s interventions, we know absolutely nothing about the charges.

8 March, 2010, criminal charges filed to the Higher Public Prosecution in Belgrade against the Privatization Agency Director, Vesna Džinić and others

It is clear here that the institutions defined by the Constitution and Law as the ones to prosecute the offenders, in the very case of ATP Vojvodina have been working according to someone’s order and pressure put on them, that they acted opposite to their professional obligations and that the reasons for the criminal charges dismissal were not criminal and legal ones, and they do not show that the state institutions are acting according to the Law. It is clear now that the damage compensation demand according to my personal suit P 249/2011 before the Higher Court in Novi Sad will exceed the amount of 100 million Euros.

Following the recommendations given by the Anti-corruption Council, the European Commission has understood that the investor, but not the state of Serbia is the damaged party in the case of ATP Vojvodina. The amount of 4 million Euros has been reimbursed in accordance with the previous lawsuit. The question is:

WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE DAMAGE CAUSED TO THE CITY OF NOVI SAD?

In December, 2014, after my visit to European officials in Brussels and 9 months after being detained, in spite of strike of the lawyers, an urgent order was given to the City Institute for Expertise. They were ordered to do the expertise within 20 days. They obeyed the order and submitted the results in early January. My lawyer entered a plea and no reply has been sent to us so far.

There are no elements of a criminal act, but they are trying to turn me – the damaged investor, into the guilty one and that is why the investigation was turned into direction opposite to the recommendations given by the Anti-corruption Council which were adopted by the European Parliament in their Resolution from March, 2012.

Having in mind this course of events in the case P 249/2011 for the personal damage before the Higher Court in Novi Sad, the police and Prosecution are those who are going to face problems because they did not respond properly in accordance with the criminal charges I have filed during the last six years. www.ilijadevic.com

I especially want to emphasize that I informed about this the Special Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljević on 17 December, 2008.

17 December, 2008 - Ilija Dević sent a letter to Miljko Radisavljević, Special Prosecutor for organized criminal

There was no reply!

On 25 January, 2012, the Anti-corruption Agency filed criminal charges to the Special Prosecution against that time Mayor relating the case of ATP Vojvodina.

On 25 January, 2012, the Anti-corruption Agency filed criminal charges to the Special Prosecution for Organized Criminal against the Mayor of Novi Sad and the City Council; the charges were dismisses within 14 days and nobody was interrogated.

There was an agreement between the Special Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljević and the Prosecutor Djordje Ostojić to cede the case to the Higher Prosecution in Novi Sad. The criminal charges were dismissed within 14 days, nobody was interrogated and it was only after the charges had been dismissed that the Anti-corruption Agency received a letter from the Special Prosecution about ceding the case to the Higher Prosecution in Novi Sad. ATP Vojvodina collected the damage compensation in the amount of 4 million Euros. The question is:

Should the Anti-corruption Agency’s criminal charges be reactivated?
Did the Prosecutor who dismissed the abovementioned criminal charges act in accordance with the Law?
They have understood that their position would be safer if they accuse me, and they have been trying to do that since 2006.
People in the Special Prosecution have still been trying to take any transaction out of context of entire business activities and business plan of ATP Vojvodina, thus trying to find the reason for bringing charges against me.
The best illustration is easily accessible and measurable fact – when I came to ATP Vojvodina its value was 2-3 million Euros and after the investment completion and warranty for all the obligations of ATP Vojvodina by my personal assets, the value of the company increased to the amount of 100 million Euros.