Predrag Vuletic, associate of Aleksandar Vulin, arrested on suspicion of defrauding budget by 131 million

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The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad informs the public that today, by order of the Special Department for Suppression of Corruption of this Prosecutor's Office, the suspect Predrag Vuletic, Provincial Secretary for Social Policy, Demography and Gender Equality and D.M., the president of the Commission of the Provincial Secretariat for Social Policy, Demography and Gender Equality for review of applications for allocation of funds, were arrested on suspicion of extended criminal offense of abuse of official position.

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In the course of the actions undertaken so far within the framework of the pre-investigative procedure, it was established that there are grounds for suspicion that the suspects Predrag Vuletic and D.M., officials in the province of Vojvodina, in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 abused their official position and authority to secure illegal gains in the amount of 130,900,000 dinars for other persons.

Individuals who were awarded funds in the total amount of 130,900,000 dinars did not even meet the basic condition stipulated in the competition for the award of grants, namely: the birth of a third and/or fourth child.

Predrag Vuletic and D.M. are suspected of damaging the provincial budge by 130,900,000 dinars.

Based on the approval of the Special Department for Combating Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, the suspects Predrag Vuletic and D.M. will be detained for up to 48 hours and then questioned in the Special Department for Suppression of Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, in accordance with the law.

Predrag Vuletic is a member of the Presidency of the Movement of Socialists, a party headed by Aleksandar Vulin, and over the years he was considered to be one of his closest associates.

Precisely because of this connection, Vuletic held a number of managerial positions, from membership in the Management Board of the Agency for Traffic Safety to the position of provincial secretary.

(Telegraf.rs)