SIEPA

BELGRADE - The organised crime department of the Belgrade district court has confirmed the indictment against former minister of telecommunications Jasna Matic and three of her associates suspected of illegal activities related to Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA), which cost the national budget around RSD 120 million.

BELGRADE - The sixth Serbia-Turkey business forum will be held in Belgrade on October 28 and bring together 30 firms from Turkey searching for business partners in Serbia.

The forum will be organized by the Serbian International Trade Association (SITA), the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications of Serbia.

BELGRADE - A total of 13 Serbian companies will have their presentations organized by the Serbian Chamber of Commerce (PKS) at the international food industry trade fair SIAL 2014 in Paris on October 23.

According to a release from the PKS, the companies will be exhibiting via PKS facilitation for the first time.

BELGRADE - Serbian companies took part in the agricultural technology exhibition "Golden Autumn 2014" in Moscow with notable success, and reached agreements with the Russian partners on a number of export deals for companies which have not exported their products to the Russian market before, the Serbian Chamber of Commerce (PKS) stated on Tuesday.

PM, U.S. ambassador open factory in northern Serbia

SREMSKA MITROVICA -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby opened in Sremska Mitrovica, in the province of Vojvodina, northwestern Serbia.

SREMSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby opened in Sremska Mitrovica, northwestern Serbia, on Thursday a plant of the U.S. manufacturer of automotive systems and components Cooper Standard, which will employ about 800 workers by mid-2016.

URS party "did not siphon off money from export agency"

BELGRADE -- While in the government, the URS "did not siphon off money from the Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA) through party members."

This is what United Regions of Serbia (URS) Presidency member Miroslav Čučković said during a B92 TV talk show late on Sunday.

BELGRADE - During their time in the government, the United Regions of Serbia (URS) did not syphon money out of the Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA) through party members, URS Presidency member Miroslav Cuckovic has said.

BELGRADE - The Special Court in Belgrade placed in detention on Thursday Jasna Matic, former minister of telecommunications and former director of the Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA), and three other heads of the agency for up to 30 days.

BELGRADE - Sasa Radulovic, former Serbian minister of economy, said on Wednesday that the arrest of former heads of the Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA) is just a part of the criminal charge relating to fictitious contracts, which the ministry he had headed pressed against the director of that agency.