Trials Await Serbia's New Organized Crime Prosecutor

The new Serbian organized crime prosecutorMladen Nenadic not only faces a tough job dealing with his caseload, but will be under close scrutiny because he was a controversial choice for the job.

After several hours of debate in the Serbian National Assembly on Monday, 139 of the 169 MPs present voted for Nenadic.

Nenadic replaces Miljko Radosavljevic, who has been in the job since 2009 and whose mandate is expiring at the end of the year.

Meet the new prosecutor

Mladen Nenadic was born in the city of Cacak in 1963. He graduated from the law faculty in Kragujevac in 1987 and passed his judicial examination in 1990.

From 1990 to 1995, he worked as an inspector for fighting financial crime in the police administration in Cacak and later as a chief of the department for combating financial crime.

In 1995, he became a deputy to the public prosecutor in the municipal public prosecutor's office in Cacak, and in 2001 was appointed acting head of Cacak's public prosecutor's office.

Since 2004, he has worked as a lawyer specialising in criminal law.

He has 25 years of experience in criminal cases.

    Source: Tanjug news agency. 

However, Nenadic's election caused controversy because he is a relative unknown and because he was the only one from the shortlist of candidates who has not worked in the prosecutor's office already.

Stevan Dojcinovic, a journalist at KRIK, a media organization that investigates crime and corruption, told BIRN that Nenadic is a mystery because he is also not known for handling any major criminal cases as a lawyer.

"Nenadic does not have a lot of experience in prosecution? also, it is unclear which major criminal cases he was involved in," Dojcinovic said.