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Six arrested over Serbia railway station roof collapse
NOVI SAD, SERBIA, AUG 1 – Six suspects are accused of corruption linked to the Novi Sad station reconstruction that caused 16 deaths and $115.6 million in state budget damage, prosecutors said.
- On November 1, 2024, the concrete roof of the newly renovated Novi Sad train station collapsed, killing 16 people.
- The collapse resulted from corruption and poor oversight during reconstruction by Chinese companies China Railway International and CRI-CCC.
- On a Friday, Serbian public prosecutors arrested 11 people, including former infrastructure minister Tomislav Momirovic, for abuse of office tied to inflated invoices.
- Prosecutors accused the suspects of causing financial losses amounting to $115.6 million to the government and stated that the consortium illicitly profited by more than $18 million.
- The disaster sparked months of student-led protests demanding early elections to end Aleksandar Vucic’s 13-year rule amid corruption and organized crime accusations.
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Six arrested over Serbia railway station roof collapse
Six people, including a former minister, were arrested on Friday over their involvement in reconstruction of a railway station, whose roof collapsed last November killing 16 and triggering Serbia's biggest anti-government protests in decades.
Tomislav Momirović, Anita Dimovski, Nebojša Šurlan and almost all other suspects on trial at the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (TOK) have pleaded not guilty to corruption in connection with the Novi Sad-Subotica railway reconstruction project, the prosecutor's office announced. The prosecutor requested that all suspects be remanded in custody.
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BELGRADE: Six people, including a former minister, were arrested in Serbia on Friday over a train station disaster in which 16 people died. The concrete canopy of the newly renovated station in the northern city of Novi Sad collapsed on November 1, 2024 and was widely blamed on corruption and poor oversight. It sparked a wave of student-led protests and led to the resignation
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