Published: June 18, 2026 at 02:07 PM
Updated: June 18, 2026 at 02:07 PM
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High Prosecutorial Council assigns three prosecutors to TOK for three years
On June 18, the High Prosecutorial Council decided to assign Irena Bjelos, Aleksandar Barac, and Boris Majlat to the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office for three years. That addresses part of the issue singled out by the Venice Commission in its follow-up opinion on the Mrdic laws: not all prosecutors had been returned to TOK.
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VST: Three prosecutors assigned to TOK
(VST: Troje tužilaca upućeno u TOK)
N1 reports that the High Prosecutorial Council decided on June 18 to assign Irena Bjelos, Aleksandar Barac, and Boris Majlat to the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office for three years. Bjelos and Barac are assigned from June 19, with nine votes in favor and one abstention; Majlat's assignment received eight votes in favor, one against, and one abstention. The outlet links the session to the Venice Commission's follow-up opinion on the Mrdic laws, which identified as a key problem that not all prosecutors had been assigned to TOK; N1 recalls that Bjelos handled the Konjuh case involving five tons of marijuana, while Barac worked on the Nadstresnica case.
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Judicial union: assigning prosecutors from basic to higher offices is not in line with European standards
(Sindikat sudske vlasti: Upućivanje tužilaca iz osnovnih u viša tužilaštva nije u skladu s evropskim standardima)
Danas published a same-day reaction from the Judicial Authority Union, which said VST's decision to assign a larger number of prosecutors from basic to higher prosecutor's offices is disputed because the Venice Commission, in its opinions on the Mrdic laws, said such assignments are not in line with European standards. The piece does not report the final three assigned to TOK, but it shows that the dispute over the temporary-assignment mechanism remains open after the VST session.
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