Belgrade court rules in case of state land in Zvezdara

The Appellate Court rejected as ungrounded the appeal by the Higher State Prosecutor, which resulted in confirming the acquittal of Dragoslav Kosmajac.

Drago Milidrag and surveyor of the Republic Geodesic Institute Milan Rapajic were acquitted of charges for the abuse of office.

According to the indictment Kosmajac met in September 2010 with Milidrag, the employee of a private company that had signed a contract with the Republic Geodesic Institute and was engaged in creating the real estate cadastre for the Zvezdara Municipality where Kosmajac lived.

Kosmajac was charged with becoming the owner of a 7.5-acre lot in an illegal way, inflicting the damage of some EUR 95,000 to the state and committing the criminal offence of the abuse of office.

He became known in June 2014 when the then Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic called Kosmajac the biggest drug dealer in Serbia. After the prime minister’s statement, Kosmajac left the country, which led to the warrant after him. He was arrested in November 2016 in his house and was released three months later after paying the bail of EUR 200,000.

Kosmajac was arrested under suspicion of committing five crimes including tax evasion, but not for the drug dealing. The trial commenced in April 2017.