Slovenija
Bosna i Hercegovina
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Head of cultural protection agency suspected of forging documents related to General Staff complex
The Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime has announced that Goran Vasic, acting director of the Serbian Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, is suspected of forging a document that proposed revoking the cultural heritage status of the General Staff complex. Based on this proposal, the Serbian government adopted a decision to strip the General Staff complex buildings - formerly used by the Army of Serbia and Montenegro and the Ministry of Defense in Belgrade - of their protected status and remove them from the national register of cultural monuments.
The General Staff complex, which once served as the military’s central command, was built between 1953 and 1964 and designed by acclaimed architect Nikola Dobrovic. The buildings were heavily damaged during NATO’s 1999 bombing campaign and were officially declared a cultural landmark in 2005.
The Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime said it had conducted a preliminary investigation and gathered evidence supporting reasonable suspicion that Vasic committed the criminal offenses of abuse of official position and forgery of an official document.
“On May 12, 2025, a search was carried out at the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments. Following the search, suspect Goran Vasic was taken into custody and will be brought before the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime for questioning,” the statement said.
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