The MIA about today's arrest: Searches completed; Money, jewelry and weapons found

"Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Criminal Police Directorate, Anti-Corruption Department, on the order of the Special Department for Suppression of Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, arrested the former acting CEO of the national power company (EPS) M. G. (1970) and 14 other persons due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that by committing various criminal acts to the detriment of the aforementioned public company, they obtained financial benefits for themselves and others, which they then inserted into legal cash flows, by which they obtained an illegal property benefit in the amount of 122,867,300 dinars," it is stated in the statement of the MIA.

In addition to M.G., by the order of the prosecutor's office, the coordinator in the Sector of ICT affairs in JP EPS I.M. was deprived of his liberty. (1987), an officer in this sector of N.S. (1987), director of the company "Tim Systems" d.o.o. Belgrade T.A. (1976), de facto owner of "Tim Systems" A.P. (1988) and responsible person in that company N.V. (1973), director of PD "IntellSec" d.o.o. Belgrade M.B. (1977), director of PD "HRC Horeca" d.o.o. M.M. (1977), as well as K.M. (1992), P.G. (1981), M.R. (1981), I.R. (1987).

Also, the head of the Department for Technical Protection Systems and Information Security in the Sector for Automatic Data Processing, Branch of RB Kolubara, Lj.S., was also deprived of his freedom (1984), as well as director of the Football Club "Borac" from Lazarevac D.B. (1987) and K.B. (1992).

The suspects are charged with the criminal offenses of abuse of official position, abuse of the position of a responsible person, money laundering, accepting bribes, giving bribes and trading in influence.

According to the order of the prosecution, searches were carried out at 16 locations and all searches were completed, during which, among other things, a large amount of money was found - dinars, euros, Swiss francs and US dollars, expensive watches, jewelry, gold ducats and bags, pieces of ammunition, a pistol, a katana sword, binoculars and a trigger gun, the MIA stated.

The suspects were detained for up to 48 hours, and they will be brought to the High Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade along with a criminal complaint.

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