Court fines Serbia's ruling party for slandering former Vojvodina officials

The city's Appellant Court also ruled that SNS had to pay the interest rate on the amount and over 1.700 Euros of trial costs.

"In these articles, they (Bojan Pajtic and Dragoslav Petrovic) were accused of 'robbing' the Vojvodina Development Bank and the Capital Investments Fund… Other websites carried those statements," the Court said.

The words like "You can hardly find a bigger and more vicious thief than Bojan Pajtic," "He only knows how to rob and cheat," "The climax of his insanity," "Pajtic's hysterical statement" were used in the articles SNS published on its website.

By publishing those articles, "SNS crossed the line of criticising (the then) authorities," the Court ruling said.