List of 49 persons Vucic pardoned before stepping down as president of Serbia

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The Ministry of Justice of the Government of the Republic of Serbia announced that it has submitted the decisions made by the president of the Republic of Serbia to pardon 49 persons to the competent courts, acting in line with the law and procedures.

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In a statement published on Instagram, the Ministry of Justice stated that it could not publish the list of pardoned persons before it was officially submitted to the competent courts.

It is further explained that institutional responsibility dictates that judicial authorities be previously and officially informed of decisions related to cases under their jurisdiction.

Only after the submission of the documentation to the competent institutions was completed, conditions were met for the Ministry of Justice to publish the list.

The sequence of actions of the Ministry of Justice was conditioned by the need to first ensure proper notification of the judicial authorities and compliance with the law, the Ministry stated and added that the right to pardon is an express constitutional authority of the president of the Republic of Serbia, stipulated in Article 112 of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia.

"The mere use of this constitutional authority does not represent interference in the work of the judicial authority nor is it, in itself, abuse of official position. The opposite interpretation would call into question the very purpose of the instrument of pardon, which exists precisely as an exception to regular implementation of criminal legal proceedings," the statement emphasized.

The list of those pardoned was then published and they are: Dijana Hrkalovic, Dragana Zivadinovic, Nebojsa Djokic, Miodrag Selakovic, Marko Pavlovic, Rados Kadijevic Slobodan Pecinar, Zeljko Milivojevic, Gorski Matovic, Igor Elez, Nemanja Naraci, Ognjen Stankovic, Stevica Kis, Aleksandar Kocic, Lazar Dinic, Marija Vasic, Lado Jovovic, Mladen Cvijetic, Srdjan Djuric, Davor Stefanovic, Mila Pajic, Branislav Djordjevic, Doroteja Antic, Dejan Bagaric, Jovan Drazic, Anja Pitulic, Nikola Bozic, Boban Dzunic.

Snezana Radivojevic, Dragan Trajkovic, Milos Arsic, Sanja Stojanovic, Dusica Davidovic, Milos Petrovic, Goran Milosavljevic, Milorad Jerkan, Miodrag Stojanovic, Slavoljub Zivadinovic, Ivan Mihajlovic, Srđan Mitrovic, Vladislava Ivkovic, Nenad Stankovic, Aleksandar Trickovic, Slobodan Djukic, Bratislav Todorovic, Milosav Simovic, Igor Novakovic, Milos Dugalic and Tomo Stojic have also been pardoned.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)