Ilic: Public prosecution needs forensic economists

BELGRADE - Goran Ilic, president of the Prosecutors' Association of Serbia, voiced belief Tuesday that it was necessary to introduce forensic economics in the work of the Serbia’s Public Attorney’s Office so that it could handle the areas of the protection of competition and combat against monopoly.

Ilic said that the Public Attorney’s Office lacked forensic economists and had not dealt with criminal acts involving monopoly before.

“It is necessary to introduce some kind of forensic economists who would be experts in the protection of competition and monopoly control,” Ilic said at a conference on the protection of competition and monopoly control discussing ways the citizens and the judiciary could act against corruption together.

Ilic said that the protection of competition had to be understood as a kind of economic democracy because if the economic power and the political power lay with only a small number of people, then there was no democracy at all there.

The event was organized by the Association of Public Prosecutors and Deputy Public Prosecutors of Serbia in cooperation with the Centers for Human Rights and Democracy in Toplica and Uzice and with the Fund for an Open Society, with the support of the Norwegian Embassy in Serbia.