Anti-Corruption Agency

The Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption, GRECO, said in its latest report on Tuesday that further measures are needed to prevent corruption among top public servants in Serbia, including the president, ministers, their assistants, state secretaries, chiefs of cabinet and political advisers, as well as police officials.

After the Serbian investigative media outlet KRIK published confirmation of claims that Serbia's Finance Minister, Sinisa Mali, owned a portfolio of property in Bulgaria bought through secretive offshore companies, it has reported that the "Pandora Papers" also shed light on the hidden business activities of another Serbian minister - Novica Toncev, minister for developing poor municipalities.<

Serbian leaders, including President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, have defended Finance Minister Sinisa Mali, accusing Serbia's Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, KRIK, of lying about him.

Haki Rugova, mayor of the western Kosovo municipality of Istog/Istok, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment by the Basic Court of Peje/Pec on Monday.

"Fewer cases are being left for the following year, but the essence is in the manner in which the cases are resolved," said Driton Demhasaj, director of the NGO 'Cohu', which has spent the past five years monitoring corruption cases in Kosovo.

President of Montenegrin Supreme Court Vesna Medenica at a press conference in Podgorica. Photo:PR Centar

Unions representing Kosovo's public-sector workers are threatening to go on strike in support of their demand for higher salaries.

The warning comes after Kosovo's Constitutional Court ruled on June 11 that Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj 's decision to increase the salaries of cabinet members, judges and prosecutors, and his own salary by 100 per cent, does not break the law.

The meeting was also attended by Minister of Justice Nela Kuburovic.

PM Ana Brnabic has attended the first meeting of the Coordination Body implementation of recommendations of the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO).

The meeting was also attended by Minister of Justice Nela Kuburovic.

BELGRADE - Observers of Serbia's Anti-Corruption Agency are monitoring the electoral campaigning of parties running for seats in the Belgrade City Assembly, the Agency has announced.

It said its observers would be monitoring the activities of all political entities on the ground until the announcement of the final results of the March 4 elections.

He added that Serbia should deal more seriously with the threats and attacks on journalists, and create a favorable environment for a pluralistic media landscape.