{"id":41814,"date":"2025-10-22T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/?p=41814"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:58:39","slug":"prosecution-looking-into-police-negligence-related-to-pink-tv-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/prosecution-looking-into-police-negligence-related-to-pink-tv-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecution \u201elooking into\u201c police negligence related to Pink TV producer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August 2023,<\/span> Nina Kova\u010devi\u0107<\/b> violated her driving ban. Police stopped her and issued a speeding ticket but failed to file a violation report for breaching the driving ban. If they had done so, her driver\u2019s license could have been revoked, <\/span>as previously reported by CINS<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Had the system not failed at that time, Kova\u010devi\u0107 might not have been behind the wheel nine months later, when she hit a young girl with her car \u2013 causing severe, life-threatening injuries.

Attorney Marko Panti\u0107, whose clients include individuals facing traffic violation cases, previously told CINS that violating a driving ban is one of the most serious offenses under the Law on Road Traffic Safety.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>

The Internal Control Sector<\/em><\/span> of the Ministry of the Interior initially denied that Kova\u010devi\u0107 had a driving ban and that the police were required to file a violation report.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

However, after CINS\u2019s journalist sent the IAS a misdemeanor charge as proof that Kova\u010devi\u0107 was under a driving ban at the time of the August 2023 stop, the Internal Control Sector<\/em> initiated proceedings against the officers involved.<\/span><\/p>

By late July of this year, the Internal Control Sector<\/em> had completed its review and submitted a report to the <\/span>Anti-Corruption Department<\/span><\/i> at the <\/span>Supreme Public Prosecution Office in Belgrade<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In its response to CINS, the Internal Control Sector<\/em> stated that the report concerns \u201cestablishing possible oversight in the work of traffic police officers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Sanja Radivojevi\u0107 <\/b>from the <\/span>Belgrade Centre for Human Rights<\/span><\/i> explained to CINS that the Internal Control Sector<\/em> must carry out an investigation and \u2013 if there are indications of a criminal offense \u2013 notify the prosecution.<\/span><\/p>

The Prosecutor\u2019s Office confirmed for CINS that a case has been opened and that the allegations in the report are being looked into.<\/span><\/p>

As a reminder, Nina Kova\u010devi\u0107 was <\/span>convicted by the court of first instance<\/span><\/a> to two years and ten months in prison for hitting the young girl with her car in June last year. She was also issued a five-year driving ban.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In determining her sentence, the court took into consideration that she had been driving in the yellow lane, exceeding the speed limit, and was in a state of severe intoxication. As mitigating factors, the court noted that she had no prior criminal convictions and is the mother of three children.<\/span><\/p>

You can read more about the entire court process in a <\/span>separate CINS report<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>

Prior to this accident, Kova\u010devi\u0107 had been the subject of at least 16 misdemeanor proceedings, mostly for speeding. <\/span>CINS\u2019s investigation<\/span><\/a> revealed that she mostly received lighter penalties for these violations.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Higher Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Belgrade has opened a case examining possible negligence by the traffic police that enabled Pink TV producer Nina Kova\u010devi\u0107 to avoid having her driver\u2019s license revoked, the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS) has learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1378,"featured_media":41800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1596,1497],"tags":[1617],"class_list":["post-41814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court-and-prosecution","category-news","tag-tv-pink","ciTrackContent"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CINS-Nina-Kovacevic-Unutrasnja-kontrola-16x9-1.webp","author_additional":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41814"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42032,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41814\/revisions\/42032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}