Miroslav Mišković

The court sentenced Miroslav Miskovic to two and a half years in prison and a fine of RSD 8 million (approx. Eur 67,800 ).

Serbia's richest man, Miroslav Miskovic, claims in his forthcoming memoir 'I, Tycoon' that Tomislav Nikolic, who at the time was the country's president and leader of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, called him to say that he wouldn't be arrested, Nedeljnik weekly newspaper reported on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade Court of Appeals has acquitted Delta Holding owner Miroslav Miskovic of charges of fraud against road maintenance companies, throwing out a part of a first-instance ruling handing him five years in prison and an 8 mln dinar fine for assisting his son Marko in an approx. 3 mln euro withholding tax evasion.

Miroslav Miskovic was on Wednesday acquitted on charges of financial abuses involving road maintenance companies.

The final verdict passed by the Court of Appeals in Belgrade also ordered that he face retrial on charges of tax evasion.

A former judge who controversially returned a passport to the Serbian tycoon Miroslav Miskovic, so that he could travel to the UK, has welcomed the decision of the High Judicial Council to withdraw the public warning it issued to him in 2015.

BELGRADE - Deputy Prosecutor Tamara Ristic sought on Thursday a 12-year prison sentence for the owner of Delta Holding, Miroslav Miskovic, for tax evasion and misuse of office, underlining that he siphoned off EUR 30 million from road maintenance companies.

The deputy prosecutor also urged the special court to fine Miskovic, but did not specify the sum.

Zoran Stojiljkovic, head of Serbia's Anti-Corruption Agency, told BIRN that there are no objective indications that corruption was decreasing in Serbia even though the ruling Progressive Party won a decisive election in 2012 on an anti-corruption manifesto.

The Special Court in Belgrade on Friday found Marko Miskovic guilty of tax evasion and sentenced him to 3.5 years in jail.

Miskovic is the son of Miroslav Miskovic, the owner of Delta Holding.

B92 on Tuesday received confirmation that Miroslav Miskovic's Delta Holding had sold its Delta City shopping centers in Belgrade and Podgorica.

South Africa-based investment fund Hyprop Investment announced that it had acquired the shopping centers for a total of EUR 202.75 million.

Zoran Ivosevic, a legal expert and former president of Serbia's Supreme court, told BIRN that there was no direct link between the demand by Miskovic's legal team for his bail payment to be refunded and a court ruling that his rights had been violated by extended custody.