Belgrade police

BELGRADE - The management of Serbia's state-owned electric power company EPS and the head of the Belgrade city police said on Saturday that tens of thousands of forged leaflets alleging that a 20-percent electricity price hike is to be introduced in April have appeared in Belgrade and elsewhere in Serbia.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade police, the Criminal Police Administration and the Department for combating corporate crime have placed five persons in detention up to 48 hours on suspicion of abuse of office at Univerzal banka.

They are suspected of having acquired illicit gains totalling around EUR 1.35 million and RSD 402 million, a statement from the Interior Ministry said.