\n\t\tNo criminal liability for the responsible person in the party<\/h2>\n\t
\n\t\tAccording to the Law on financing political activities, the responsible person within the party may not be held criminally liable if the Anti-Corruption Agency finds irregularities in electoral campaign financing. Agency states that in March 2013 they proposed the Ministry of Justice to introduce criminal liability for the responsible person within a political party in case of not filing a report or filing a fraudulent report on campaign financing. The proposal has not been adopted till the present day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\tIn the report on campaign financing filed to the Anti-Corruption Agency, SNS failed to include the cost of overnight stays of its activists in the hotel. The fact that services of a transport agency Bortravel were used in the pre-election period was also omitted from the report. Borislav Raji\u0107, owner of Bortravel agency, filed an official letter to the Anti-Corruption Agency stating that the party did not pay him the amount of 444,000 dinars till the end of September 2013. <\/p>\n
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\n\tThe Law on financing political activities makes it obligatory for political parties to report all their campaign costs, while income concealment may also present a criminal offence with a prescribed sentence of up to three years of imprisonment. Illegally obtained money is confiscated by court, while in case of a guilty verdict the party loses a part of funds from public sources.<\/p>\n
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\n\tNemanja Nenadi\u0107, Program director of Transparency Serbia, says that the case from Zaje\u010dar represents violation of law, that there would certainly be enough materials for misdemeanor charges, while there is a possibility of criminal offence as well.<\/p>\n
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\n\tHowever, no motion for launching of either misdemeanor or criminal proceedings against persons responsible has been filed till the present day.<\/p>\n
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\n\tSources from the Anti-Corruption Agency did not want to comment on this case, as they are still working on it, as they say. The deadline to launch proceedings is five years.<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe Agency documents indicate that over the last four years irregularities in political activity financing were established not only in the case of SNS, but other political parties as well.<\/p>\n
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\n\tThey were looking for someone to sign<\/h2>\n
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\n\tFor the elections in Zaje\u010dar, which it subsequently won, SNS reported expenses at the amount of somewhat less than two million dinars to the Anti-Corruption Agency. Documents which CINS obtained from the Agency through request for access to information show that SNS tried to conceal more than one million dinars.<\/p>\n
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\n\tIn the period May-July 2013, several payments were made to the \u201cSrbija-Tis\u201d hotel, at the total amount of 736.000 dinars. All three payment slips were addressed to SNS for payment of accommodation for its activists who were staying in the hotel at that time.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tIn the last four years in Serbia, parliamentary elections were organized twice; presidential elections were organized once, while local elections were organized several times. Political parties were concealing the costs in the course of electoral campaigns on all levels.<\/span><\/p>\n\t \n\tOne of the payments was made by Milinko \u017divkovi\u0107, currently SNS member of the Republic Parliament. The name of Velja Ognjenovi\u0107 is printed on the second payment slip. The name of the Mayor of Zaje\u010dar is Velimir Ognjenovi\u0107, who was on the SNS list at the time. The third payment slip, at the amount of 516,000 dinars, states the purpose of the payment: \u201ccosts of accommodation from May to June 2013 \u2013 Serbian Progressive Party\u201d.<\/p>\n \n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tMilinko \u017divkovi\u0107 paid the amount of 200,000 dinars. Talking to CINS journalists, he said that the money originated from activists, who were issued certificates on donation, and that he himself participated in this.<\/p>\n \n\t \n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe activists who were there, twenty of them, collected the money, 10,000 each, and gave it to assist the elections there (\u2026) so I also gave money\u201d, says \u017divkovi\u0107 and adds: \u201cThey were looking for someone to sign, and I did not think it would be a problem\u201d.<\/p>\n
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