“On March 13, CRTA filed a criminal complaint for unauthorized handling of information and documentation seized from CRTA during a raid conducted by members of the Criminal Police Directorate (UKP) and for forwarding this information to the President of the Republic. The complaint states that the following criminal offenses were committed: Abuse of Office (Article 359, Paragraph 1), Unauthorized Collection of Personal Data (Article 146, Paragraph 3), and Causing Panic and Disorder (Article 343 of the Criminal Code),” Serbian civil society organization CRTA reported.
On Sunday, March 9, President Vučić, in a media address broadcast live on TV Informer, stated, among other things:
“Those who directly received money from abroad to carry out a color revolution—there will be surprises in the coming days, you’ll see… Do you know that the organization USAID paid €190,000, through CRTA and some other NGOs, to an organization called ‘Da smradovi odu?’ €190,000. Imagine that wonderful humanitarian and humane aspect of USAID and CRTA, where the organization ‘Da smradovi odu’ receives €190,000, not dinars,” CRTA informs.
“Highlighting the fact that the misused information from CRTA’s official documentation could have come exclusively from either the competent prosecutor’s office or the Criminal Police Directorate, CRTA included evidence in its complaint in the form of a statement given by the President of Serbia on TV “Informer” on March 11, 2025 (which was also broadcast on TV PINK). In this statement, the President effectively admitted to possessing unlawfully obtained information and acknowledged that he should not have disclosed it publicly,” CRTA writes.
“In the complaint, CRTA argued that by spreading false information, the President of Serbia intended to cause public panic that could lead to serious disruption of public order or peace, as well as to obstruct or significantly interfere with decision-making and implementation of the decisions in relation to the case by the police and the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade, which is overseeing the preliminary investigation against CRTA and other civil society organizations. This case involves an abuse of public office and the use of unverified, fabricated, and false information, which the President of Serbia combined with details from the preliminary investigation, to which he could not have had lawful access. In doing so, undue influence is exerted on the police and the prosecuting authorities, further targeting CRTA as an organization allegedly engaged in the unlawful overthrow of the government,” says the website of CRTA.
The criminal complaint is filed against:
- Aleksandar Vučić, President of the Republic of Serbia
- Nenad Stefanović, Chief Public Prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade
- Jelena Milutinović Ziljkić, Prosecutor at the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade – Special Department for Combating Corruption
- Miloš Savić, Head of the Criminal Police Directorate’s Anti-Corruption Department
- Unknown individuals employed at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Police Directorate,Criminal Police Directorate, Anti-Corruption Department, as well as at the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade – Special Department for Combating Corruption.
In late February, Serbian police entered the offices of five NGOs, including CRTA, demanding access to financial documentation.
After 28 hours of attendance, the police left their offices, carrying 8,500 pages of copied material. The chief prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade, Nenad Stefanović, stated that the investigation aims to examine how these organizations spend the funds received from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), expressing suspicion of possible financial irregularities. It was later revealed that prosecutor Jelena Milutinović Ziljkić, appointed to lead the case, had previously participated in a USAID-funded project, which raised additional questions in the public.
ЦРТА Србија: По 28 часа полицијата ги напушти нашите канцеларии
