Excerpt from an interview with Branko Stamenković, President of the High Prosecutorial Council and Public Prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecution Office, published in full in the weekly "Vreme" on 11.12.2025:

Branko Stamenković, President of the High Prosecutorial Council, says that the prosecution office and the Council have not received any draft of possible amendments to the law that would abolish the Prosecution Office for Organized Crime as autonomous.

However, Stamenković tells "Vreme" that the announcements made by the holders of executive power are disturbing. "It is indicative that, judging by these statements, both the Public Prosecution Office for Organized Crime and the Public Prosecution Office for War Crimes, as well as the Special Public Prosecution Office for High-Tech Crime, should become only departments within the Higher Public Prosecution Office in Belgrade," he says.

"This means that the chief public prosecutor of that prosecution office, regardless of whether it is Nenad Stefanović as now or someone else, would be authorized to autonomously, without any choices, opinions, etc. in the selection of personnel, by adopting an annual work plan, assign prosecutors whom he thinks at his discretion should work in those departments, as is currently the case with other departments of that prosecution office," Stamenković added in an interview for the new issue of "Vreme" which is on newsstands this Thursday (December 11).

Stamenković is considered one of the closest associates of the Supreme Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac. Both Dolovac and Stamenković and Mladen Nenadić, as the head of the Prosecution Office for Organized Crime, but also some other prosecutors, are under fierce attack by the regime and its pit bull media.

Why? The answer is simple: because they dared to launch investigations against high-ranking state officials in the case of the Canopy and the General Staff, which until recently seemed like science fiction.

Stamenković says that subordinating several prosecution offices under the Higher Public Prosecution Office would be "an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of one chief prosecutor, who would have, in addition to his regular jurisdiction, specialist jurisdiction over the entire territory of the Republic of Serbia in relation to organized crime, war crimes and high-tech crime, which he does not have now".

The full text of the interview will be published when it is available on the website of the weekly "Vreme".